Next week Pope Francis is due to celebrate a service in the Armenian Catholic rite to commemorate the 100th anniversary of over one million Armenains being killed by Turks.
In these days Armenian communities around the world recall the atrocitiy.
It was the first genocide of the 20th century.
Below is an extract from an address by Hitler after the invasion of Poland. In it he refers to the genocide of the Armenians.
How mad/bad/crazy the man was.
"My decision to attack Poland was arrived at last spring. Originally, I feared that the political constellation would compel me to strike simultaneously at England, Russia, France, and Poland. Even this risk would have had to be taken.
Ever since the autumn of 1938, and because I realized that Japan would not join us unconditionally and that Mussolini is threatened by that nit-wit of a king and the treasonable scoundrel of a crown prince, I decided to go with Stalin.
In the last analysis, there are only three great statesmen in the world, Stalin, I, and Mussolini. Mussolini is the weakest, for he has been unable to break the power of either the crown or the church. Stalin and I are the only ones who envisage the future and nothing but the future. Accordingly, I shall in a few weeks stretch out my hand to Stalin at the common German-Russian frontier and undertake the redistribution of the world with him.
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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A small footnote to the Armenian massacre.
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This was a secret speech to his Supreme Commanders in August 22th 1939. Historian Dr. Richard Albrecht claims in his book that "until now nobody of these guys self-naming historians had ever seen the original L-3-version" ..."what Hitler really said in his notorious second speech was only written down simultaneously during his speech by one of his auditors: Wilhelm Canaris (1887-1945), at that time chief of the military secret service within the Third Reich." http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160809
At that point i would like to quote the first Israeli Embassador in Germany, Asher Ben Nathan said: “What is decisive is what preceded the first shots,” so it is also decisive here which people and which politicians before the outbreak of war and on into the still reverberating history have contributed to the causes of the Second World War...and if you start digging it gets very interesting!
My feeling right now is that we are very very close to another big war, WW3. US-NATO doesn't miss any provocation right now i.e. Dragon Ride. Financel Markets are rotten to the core etc. Watch Wesley Clarks (Retired four-star general) speech in 2007 quoting Paul Wolfowitz @ 4:16min: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY2DKzastu8
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