GERMAN-TURKISH RACISM
PanARMENIAN.Net
18.04.2007 GMT+04:00
Traditionally the victims of the Holocaust are considered to be the
6 million Jews from Europe.
However no victim name-list exists.
Whether or not Hitler’s phrase on "the forgotten Armenian Genocide"
really existed has now become a question of paramount importance. If in
due time the Nation’s League condemned slaughter and the deportation
of the Armenians from the Ottoman Empire, perhaps the world wouldn’t
witness the Holocaust.
Particularly unclear is the position of the Israeli State, persistently
denying the Armenian Genocide and recognizing only the Holocaust.
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Of course, the political consequences of recognizing
the Armenian Genocide for Israel are much more serious than the
moral ones.
Today Turkey is Israel’s almost the only ally in the Middle East.
The persecutions were initiated by the boycott of Jews and their firms,
functioning in Germany on April 1, 1933, which was later followed
by a powerful wave of racial laws against Jews working at State
Institutions or working by certain professions. The "Nuremberg Law"
put an end to the Jewish equality in Germany and identified Jewry
as racial term since September 15, 1935. The anti-Jewish hysteria
in Germany led to massacre in 1938 (night, November 9) recorded
in history as "Crystal night" (because of the fragments of glass,
covering the streets of country’s cities).
Traditionally the victims of the Holocaust are considered to be the
6 million Jews from Europe.
However, no victim name-list exists. The basic source of the statistic
data of the Holocaust is the comparison of prewar and postwar
census. By the end of the war the Nazis covered up all the tracks of
the concentration camps; only testimonies are alive to this day. In
the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem in Jerusalem personal documents about 3
million victims are kept. The lack of data is explained with the fact
that often Jewish Communities were exterminated to the last person,
so that no relatives, friends, or family members were left alive to
give the names of the dead.
The US Senate called to make the secret archives available, containing
documental data on lives and deaths of millions of people who were kept
at Nazi concentration camps during World War II. In the Resolution
the Senate called the international commission having control over
the access to the archive to accelerate the consideration of this
issue in its next session, which is to be held in Amsterdam in May.
Till recently the archives in Germany were kept top secret. The
significance of the documents became particularly great over the
last several months after the representative of the Associate Press
gained a noticeable access to Nazi materials, with the condition of
not disclosing the names of the victims.
"The archives contain from 30 to 50 million pages of documentations
telling about individual fates of more than 17 million victims of
Nazi persecutions," the Resolution states.
Will the Ottoman archives be available? According to Turkish officials,
"their archives are open to any kind of investigations". However
according to a number of historians, including Armenian historians
the archives are thoroughly mopped. But there are documents, which
became historical facts with thanks to the diplomats working during
the years of World War I in Istanbul. Among such historical facts the
telegrams of the Turkish Minister of Home Affairs can be found. "The
Armenians’ rights to live and work in Turkey are completely out of
question. The government taking up the whole responsibility orders to
let no child alive and does not let anyone protect them – September 9,
1915. Turkish Minister of Home Affairs."
It’s worth mentioning that the Armenian Genocide was committed with the
unspoken agreement of Germany which was one of Turkey’s closest allies.
"PanARMENIAN.Net" analytical department