Thread by @BrajanKot

@armenia April 24 – Armenian Genocide (1915–1923) Remembrance Day

1).
„[...] Basically is just three great statesmen in the world, Stalin, me and Mussolini. Mussolini, the weakest, was unable to break the power of the crown or the Church.

@armenia 2).
Stalin and me the only ones who only see the future. So in a few weeksʼ hence I going to shake hands with Stalin at the common German-Russian border and make a new division of the world with him.

@armenia 3).
Our strength is our speed and our brutality. Genghis Khan drove millions of womenʼs and children to their deaths, consciously and with a light heart. History sees him solely as the great founder of the state.

@armenia 4).
Itʼs a matter of indifference to me what a weak Western European civilization will say about me. I have issued the command – and I will have everyone executed, who will only utter a single word of criticism – that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines,

@armenia 5).
but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Therefore I have mobilised my Deathʼs Head Units (Totenkopfverbände [1]), for the time being only in the East, with the command to unpityingly and mercilessly send men, women and children of Polish descent and language to death.

@armenia 6).
Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum [2]). Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?”

A fragment of Adolf Hitlerʼs speech to the Wehrmacht commanders. Berghof on the Obersalzberg, August 22, 1939 [3] [4]

@armenia 7).
„Aurora [Arshaluys] Mardiganian (1901–1994) [5], a survivor of the Armenian genocide of 1915–1923 [6], recalled sixteen young Armenian girls being »crucified« by their Ottoman tormentors.

@armenia 8).
The film »Auction of Souls« (1919), which was based on her book »Ravished Armenia« (1918), showed the victims nailed to crosses. However, almost 70 years later Mardiganian revealed to film historian Anthony Slide that the scene was inaccurate.

@armenia 9).
She described what was actually an impalement. She stated that »The Turks didnʼt make their crosses like that. The Turks made little pointed crosses. They took the clothes off the girls.

@armenia 10).
They made them bend down, and after raping them, they made them sit on the pointed wood, through the vagina. Thatʼs the way they killed – the Turks. Americans have made it a more civilized way. They canʼt show such terrible things [7] [8].«”

@armenia 11).
Endnotes:

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-Totenk…
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-Totenk…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensrau…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27…
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansprache…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27…

@armenia 12).
[4] „Wer redet denn heute noch von der Vernichtung der Armenier? Adolf Hitlers zweite Rede vor den Oberkommandierenden auf dem Obersalzberg am 22. August 1939: Eine wissenschaftliche Skizze” (2007) (a) (b) von Dr. Richard Albrecht (c)

@armenia 13).
(a)

(b) p. 128 (36) ➡

(c)

[5]

amazon.de/Vernichtung-Ar…
scholar.archive.org/work/c2kthk4hh…
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Ma…
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Ma…

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[8] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_…
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9no…
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lk…
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0…
britannica.com/event/Armenian…
cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust…
archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…
genocide-museum.am/eng/remembranc…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravished_…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravished_…

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