Hitler's Views On The Armenian Genocide

1- When Adolf Hitler asked the question “Who, after all, talk nowadays of the annihilation of the Armenians?” he was using the fact that the Turks got away with genocide and that the global community didn’t really do much to punish those involved as a way to justify his plan to wipe out the Jewish population. In the film there was a great quote that really captured Hitler’s notion that he could get away with genocide even after what happened to the Armenians. “His question shows clearly that it was possible to commit a gigantic crime without being called to account internationally.” Hitler knew that the Pashas who were in charge of orchestrating the genocide were able to safely escape from Turkey and were not held accountable for what they
There were also claims that the Armenian people who had wealth or were gaining wealth were taking that potential wealth away from the Turks who believed it belonged to them. Turkey believed that the Armenian people were a threat to the wellbeing and future of the Ottoman Empire and the Turks needed to protect themselves from a rebellion of the Armenian people. What really seemed to be the last major factor that lead to the genocide of the Armenian people was when Turkey lost to Russia in the caucuses during World War I. When this devastating defeat happened, they Turkish authorities claimed that the Armenian people were conspiring with the Russian army and that they would be evacuating any town that was suspected of committing acts of treason against Turkey. When the deportations of Armenians who were thought to have commited treason or espionage began, Turkish police and military personnel deported everyone. They used the loss at in the caucuses and the alleged Armenian and Russian conspiracy as an excuse to systematically send thousands of Armenians on a march to their death. World War I was