Herod and Hitler Genocide Generations Apart
Of whom do we think when approached with the subject of genocide? Adolf Hitler, of course is most generally associated with this monstrosity, but is he the only cruel genocidal murderer accounted for during the course of history? A less obvious example is King Herod of the Bible who also killed many Jews. Both Hitler and Herod, though differing in their vindictiveness and separated by hundreds of years, tried to annihilate the Jewish race. ... King Herod had heard of a child that was born of a virgin in Bethlehem and wanted his wise men to bring the child unto him; the wise men did not comply with him.