Hitler Youth essays

Hitler Youth essays Hitler was with no doubt the perpetrator of the Holocaust, responsible for the deaths innumerous souls in the early 40s. But an interesting thing to observe is the seldom-remembered Armenian Genocide; another pogrom where three-fifths of the Armenian population between the years of 1915-1923 were killed. The stage for the Armenian deaths was set very similar to that of the Holocaust. The land was in the midst of a war, World War I, which made the mass killings less noticeable and easier to carry out for obvious reason. Also, there was a racist, super-national dictatorial government in place at the time. In Armenia, the Young Turks overthrew the sultan and initiated the genocide because they wanted to rid the land of the sub-human Armenians. This time, the Armenians were at fault simply for being Christian, just like the Jews were supposedly at fault for their beliefs. The Turks were Muslim and believed the land should only be populated by their own kind, and genocide was thei r answer. The Turks killed the intelligentsia first, next slaughtered the able-bodied men, then sent the woman and children either into boxcars or on foot for a death march into the desert - where they were left with nothing and allowed to die, over one and a half million total. If we add a propaganda campaign, more land to conquer (and subsequently, more people to kill) and the willing cooperation of entire governments, we have the Holocaust (in simpler terms, of course) In the end, Hitler must have thought something about this historical event, because on August 22, 1939 he said, After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians? And this was just before he marched into Poland on September 1 of that same year. So before we call Hitler the original anti-Christ, we should keep in mind the events in Armenia over a decade before the first concentration camps were opened. ...