“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” - Adolf Hitler.So queried the leader of Nazi Germany on August 22, 1939, as plans to invade Poland and ramp up the Final Solution were laid out in his famed Obersalzberg Speech. One-hundred years later, what many of us in Jewish community see as the intellectual forebear to the Holocaust remains denied vehemently by Turkey to the point of recalling Ambassadors from counties who accept the overwhelming evidence of genocide.
Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Join me below the squiggle for some uniquely Jewish perspectives on an atrocity that not only inspired the Holocaust, but whose denial rings eerily similar to white supremacist Holocaust denial.