The 20th century was a time of change and hardship that led to both good and bad consequences, which impacted the world as a whole. With the difficulties brought on by World War I, a need for change arose that gave power to questionable leaders. As a result, two different countries, Cambodia and Germany, are experiencing similar radical approaches to reform, in the form of genocide. The Nazi and Khmer Rouge regimes attempted to build these idealistic nations under totalitarianism, but only succeeded in committing atrocities that will never be forgotten. Through these genocides, survivors Chanrithy Him and Elie Wiesel give us a glimpse of what life was like in those difficult times. The two readings, When the Broken Glass Floats, Him and The Night, Wiesel further help in understanding the reasoning, process and implications of the genocide of totalitarian societies. First, in examining the reasons that pushed the Nazi and Khmer Rouge regimes to such irrationality, there is the idea they had for creating the ideal nation. After World War I, Germany had suffered greatly economically and needed reforms which led to Hitler's rule. Hitler held Jews responsible for Germany's defeat, and their success during the Depression only fueled his antipathy. This hatred ultimately led the Nazi Party to eliminate people it saw as a threat. Years later, with the spread of communism, French-led Cambodia was liberated but overtaken by the Khmer Rouge, who quickly enforced the elimination of all Western influence. Lead the Khmer Rouge to turn to the elimination of certain people to “re-peasantize” society and maintain order within the nation at all costs. Therefore, both powers took the opportunity to voluntarily eliminate undesirable sectors of the population which they consider to be middle of paper for international interference in both scenarios, who knows how far they would have pushed the regimes totalitarians and how many countless deaths they would have added to their reign. Thus, we conclude that these totalitarian regimes became an extreme version of a form of slavery as we witnessed through Equiano's life. Although people were not initially chosen for work, those who lived were forced to work without the intention of keeping them alive, but rather to use them and then dispose of them. Unlike Equiano's experience of staying healthy for better performance, people in Cambodia and the Holocaust were worked to death out of malice. So we see how totalitarianism affected the treatment of the isolated group of people in both scenarios. In addition to trying to understand the reasoning, process and effects of genocide in these utopias..