Thursday, April 10, 2014

How did the Armenian genocide affect Hitler's plan for the Jewish people?

Simply put, I think that the Armenian genocide was able to
show Hitler that his ideas could actually work.  The idea of employing nationalism could
be parlayed into the removal of an entire group of people.  The "Young Turks" who were
able to seize power did so on a premise of nationalism, being able to blame the
Armenians along with economic and political liberalism for Turkish woes.  This is
something that Hitler was able to do in terms of identifying the problems with Germany
as converging both on "enemies of the nation" and the weaknesses in
liberalism.


Another similarity that must have influenced
Hitler was the organization of the nation as a killing machine.  The Turkish creation of
different units whose primary purpose was to eliminate the Armenians was something that
must have left an impression on Hitler, as he did the same thing in Germany.  "Special
Organization" designations as well as "killer units" of the government were discharged
with removal of the Armenians.


The very idea that the
Turkish government could annihilate an entire group from memory without any audible
response from the rest of the world is something that must have lingered with Hitler,
who once remarked, "Who, after all, speaks today about the annihilation of the
Armenians?" In the end, this quotation might speak quite loudly in explaining how the
Armenian genocide impacted Hitler.

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