Posted on April 24, 2006 by acasteel
From Christian History Institute’s ChiNotes Newsletter (subscribe here)
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” With that rhetorical question, Hitler declared his willingness to exterminate the Polish people and his certainty that, under a victorious Nazi regime, history would soon forget all about it.
Hitler was referring to the first of the terrible acts of genocide in the 20th century, when the Muslim Turks, under cover of World War I, exterminated a million Christian Armenians, pretending they were a threat to national solidarity. Although the men were sometimes killed by firing squad, many women and children were marched back and forth through wilderness until they dropped from hunger, thirst and heat exhaustion. Nations such as the United States made only futile protests. About half a million Armenians escaped to other countries.
On this April 24, Armenian Martyrs’ Day, let us remember that which Hitler wrongly boasted had been forgotten.
Other links:
http://www.armenocide.am/
About.com
TheForgotten.org
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Posted on April 24, 2006 by acasteel
From Christian History Institute’s ChiNotes Newsletter (subscribe here)
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” With that rhetorical question, Hitler declared his willingness to exterminate the Polish people and his certainty that, under a victorious Nazi regime, history would soon forget all about it.
Hitler was referring to the first of the terrible acts of genocide in the 20th century, when the Muslim Turks, under cover of World War I, exterminated a million Christian Armenians, pretending they were a threat to national solidarity. Although the men were sometimes killed by firing squad, many women and children were marched back and forth through wilderness until they dropped from hunger, thirst and heat exhaustion. Nations such as the United States made only futile protests. About half a million Armenians escaped to other countries.
On this April 24, Armenian Martyrs’ Day, let us remember that which Hitler wrongly boasted had been forgotten.
Other links:
http://www.armenocide.am/
About.com
TheForgotten.org
Filed under: Uncategorized
