HISTORIAL CONTEXT

Armenia, 1915, 100 years ago… 20 years before Hitler. The entire population of Armenian Christians was cleansed from the Ottoman Empire. Those who survived were forced to convert to Islam.

“Our strength consists in our speed and our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter with premeditation and a happy heart. History sees in him solely the founder of a state. It’s a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me.

“I have issued the command and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad… Accordingly, I have placed my death head formations and readiness… only in the East with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” – Adolf Hitler, August 22, 1939*

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*Kevork B. Bardakjian, Hitler and the Armenian Genocide (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Zoryan Institude, 1985).