Monday, February 26, 2018
Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide also known as the Armenian Holocaust was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians. These people were mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire. This genocide was carried out after World War 1 and was implemented in two phases. forced labour till death or extermination. This is very similar to the Holocuast we know with Adolf Hitler and the mass killing of Jews. I feel that Hitler looked back in history when decideing the final soluiton he got some of his ideas from the Armenian Genocide. They are very similar in the way they decided to kill and exterminate people. The Armenians had a tactic that Germany did not use which was these death marches. The Turkish people forced Armenenians to march through the syrain dessert. They were deprived of food and water, they were subjected to periodic rape and robbery.
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The Armenian Genocide was much less systematic than the Holocaust. It came down to smaller groups of soldiers deciding on their own how to punish these people. It never became as purposeful as the Holocaust because guards usually let people die of natural causes or were shooting them one by one. Gas chambers were entirely in the Holocaust. It's possible that the Holocaust started off like the Armenian Genocide in the case of Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union but they soon went far past what the Turkish people had done.
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