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Hitler's Reference To The Armenian Genocide
At the conclusion of his Hitler's Obersalzberg Speech, Obersalzberg Speech on 22 August 1939, a week before the Invasion of Poland, German invasion of Poland, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler reportedly said "Who, after all, speaks today of Armenian genocide, the annihilation of the Armenians?" (). Background The Armenian genocide was the systematic murder of around 1 million to 1.5 million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. German Empire, Germany was an ally of the Ottomans at the time and sent a large contingent of Officers and Soldiers to the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Middle Eastern Theater. They would send back several reports about the Massacres perpetuated against Armenians, but the news was largely censored and even denied by German Government and press. Abram L. Sachar, an American historian and founding president of Brandeis University, wrote that "the genocide was cited approvingly twenty-five years later by the Fuehrer... who found the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitler's Obersalzberg Speech
The Obersalzberg Speech is a speech which Adolf Hitler delivered in the presence of ''Wehrmacht'' commanders at his Obersalzberg home on 22 August 1939, a week before the German invasion of Poland. Origin of the "Lochner" version of the Obersalzberg speech In August 1939, American journalist Louis P. Lochner contacted American diplomat Alexander Comstock Kirk and showed him the text, but Kirk was not interested.von Klemperer, Klemens ''The German Resistance Against Hitler: The Search for Allies Abroad, 1938–1945'', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993 p. 133. Lochner next contacted British diplomat George Ogilvie-Forbes, who indeed transmitted it back to London on 25 August 1939. Canadian historian Michael Marrus wrote that Lochner almost certainly obtained the text from Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the ''Abwehr'' (German intelligence), who was present at the Obersalzberg Conference. Three documents were grouped together during the Nuremberg trials that contained Hit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |