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The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide . Introduction . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx2l0nQIwaQ. Background. Rise of ‘Young Turks” Goal was to create a Turkish empire, a ‘great and eternal land’ called Turan with one language and one religion .

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The Armenian Genocide

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  1. The Armenian Genocide

  2. Introduction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx2l0nQIwaQ

  3. Background Rise of ‘Young Turks” Goal was to create a Turkish empire, a ‘great and eternal land’ called Turan with one language and one religion. Young Turk regime sided with the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary) Russia was a Christian state and the Young Turks began disarming the Armenians, stating they were fearful of an alliance between Russians and Armenians, leaving Armenians helpless

  4. Talaat Pasha • Minister of Interior Affairs • Enver Pasha and Djemal Pasha formed a group called the Three Pashas • 1915-1916 – Disarmed Armenian soldiers, closed political organizations with Armenian employees and ordered mass deportation of Armenians • Fled Ottoman Empire in 1918 • Assassinated March 15, 1921

  5. Classification Turks vs. Armenians

  6. Symbolism Christian

  7. Dehumanization Slaves and prositution

  8. Organization the turks separate out leaders, intellectuals, and men and prepare a militia

  9. Polarization turks told the kurds to go kill, loot, and rape the armenians

  10. Preparation men and leaders are killed

  11. Extermination worked to death, death marches, starved, (etc.)

  12. Denial turkey and the western powers deny that genocide happened

  13. On August 22, 1939, in preparation for the impending invasion of Poland, Hitler stated "Our strength consists in our speed and in 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 - that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness - for the present 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 (lebensraum) which we need.  Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?"

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