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I need help with my introductory paragraph for a history paper. I have my 3 body paragraphs and conclusion. the whole paper is still a little weak and needs revision but Im kinda brain dead.
This starts at first body paragraph:

During Pol Pot's authority, the Khmer Rouge forced a reconstruction on Cambodians. The Khmer Rouge were a Cambodian Communist Party that mainly ran the country during the mid to late 1970's. The ruthless group forced innocent people out of their homes and into the killing fields. Around 2 million people died from either brutality, exhaustion, disease or starvation d

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ue to their strict policies. The Khmer Rouge believed the people must work on farms, and anyone who opposed were to be eliminated. All children were separated and placed in a different labor camp. Every factory, school, and hospital was shut down. Educated people, westernized, and professional people in any field were murdered along with their extended families. All religion was banned, monks were killed and nearly all temples were destroyed. The outlook on this was “To keep you is no benefit, to lose you is no loss.” The Khmer Rouge targeted minority groups such as Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai or any Cambodian with any of the listed ancestry. The group also targeted Buddhist monks, or educated people who were called “new people”. Cambodians would avoid wearing glasses, reading, or speaking french to avoid the consequences. Pol Pot did not want any foreign influence on the people, so he sought out to ethnically cleanse. Nearly 30% of the Cambodian population died during the four year period.
The Holocaust is a very well known genocide. The horror began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. Hitler formed a lethal group known as Nazis or “National Socialist German Worker's Party.” The term “Holocaust” originated from the Greek word “holokauston” which means “sacrifice by fire” describes the Nazi's organized slaughter of inferior races. The Nazis targeted Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to camps or killed, this was Hitler's plan he named the Final Solution. Jews were forced to wear a star of David on their sleeve to label them. Eventually they would be sent to a death or concentration camp. Upon entry of a concentration camp they were promptly sent to be shaved, tattooed, and stripped of all belongings. In these camps they would work for the Nazis manufacturing of gardening. At the death camps everyone was immediately put to death, or selected to help eliminate members of their clan. Adolf Hitler's plan was to completely erase the Jewish people. The Nazis murdered nearly two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe. Eleven million people died, six million were Jews, and 1.1 million were children. Adolf Hitler believed Poles and Jews deserved extermination because they were the “lowest of lows.” Their outlook was what seemed to act as a justification of their actions against the Jews.
The end of the Cambodian genocide was shortly after America left Vietnam. Vietnam invaded Cambodia and stopped the Khmer Rouge. The Holocaust coming to an end was a biproduct of the Allied Powers defeating the Axis powers. The United States however made no attempt to specifically stop either genocide. The United States would not have been help in the Cambodian genocide considering they became very unpopular in the region. With the Holocaust the U.S and Britian claimed there was no "miracle solution" to stop the mass murder. The constant fear never really came to an end with any survivors of the genocides. Many Jews were afraid to return home due to the anti-semitism still in some parts of Europe. The Cambodians never really got the deserved justice, but in April 1998, 73-year-old Pol Pot died of an apparent heart attack following his arrest, before he could be brought to trial by an international tribunal for the events of 1975-79.
These two particular genocides occurred from very strong racist views against a group of people. Each leader had this idea of the necessity of racial purification and ultimately brought on persecution, internment, and finally execution. Each genocide is very different in it's own way, yet almost identical due to the motive. The general motive to pursuit a genocide is ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing is the mass expulsion or killing of members of an ethnic or religious group in a society. The way the leader or dictator commits the mass murder varies on their region, and personality. Pol Pot was a was the Prime Minister of Cambodia, which is located directly between Vietnam and Thailand, who decided to go a more savage route and brutally murder using ruthless techniques. Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany, and also used harsh brutality but more elaborate ways of torture. Both individuals had a strong desire for power and would use terror and force to accomplish their goals.