Who here knows about the Armenian Genocide.
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I actually heard about it from a video on a website.
It was ironic that Hitler used it to justify genocide. He said no one remembered the Armenian Genocide, so who would remember his genocide of the Jews?
In the end, his crime was remembered, yet people still don't know about the Armenian Genocide.
It was ironic that Hitler used it to justify genocide. He said no one remembered the Armenian Genocide, so who would remember his genocide of the Jews?
In the end, his crime was remembered, yet people still don't know about the Armenian Genocide.
I have. My Uncle and Cousins are Armenian and I know quite a bit about it actually. My Uncle's Mother was in Armenia, pregnant with him when it started, she fled to Egypt where my Uncle was born, and then eventually made it to the US via Israel, France and Canada.
I know about it.But only because i just did a report on genocides for school. I honestly wouldn't have known about it otherwise.
Yes, I thought it was common knoweldge. I'm surprised on a daily basis on what people know and don't know.
Genocides aren't really taught in most schools. I've heard of it but I don't really know anything about it.Hannibal942 said:
About your name though, Hannibal the general or cannibal?
It started around World War I and continued for a bit after. It was when the fading Ottoman Empire took advantage of a crack down on Armenian separatists to pretty much undertake a systematic genocide of the Armenian people, largely because they were a sizable Christian minority in a predominantly Muslim country. They employed the usual deportations, deprivations, and concentration camps. There's an argument that the Nazis got ideas from them, given the long-standing link between German intellectuals of the pan-Aryan movement and Ottoman-Turkish thinkers.
Turkey, the country that eventually emerged at the center of the collapsed Ottoman Empire, has consistently denied that there was any attempted genocide, while pretty much the rest of the world agrees there was, and that it is more or less the first attempted one in modern history. Turkey still tends to overact to anyone who talks about it, arresting them for "profaning the Turkish state," i.e., making it look stupid, which is still a crime in Turkey.
That's what I remember from college. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Turkey, the country that eventually emerged at the center of the collapsed Ottoman Empire, has consistently denied that there was any attempted genocide, while pretty much the rest of the world agrees there was, and that it is more or less the first attempted one in modern history. Turkey still tends to overact to anyone who talks about it, arresting them for "profaning the Turkish state," i.e., making it look stupid, which is still a crime in Turkey.
That's what I remember from college. Correct me if I'm wrong.
