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Dear Group,

Another very interesting message about Hitler's statement about the
Armenians.


 <<...>>  Yad Vashem                      Information Services
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 Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
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please
use reference number:  94736
Dear Ms. Shawhan,
In response to a call put out by Susan Ferkin concerning you query about
the
exact text of Hitler's statement regarding the Armenians, the following
was
taken off of the USHMM website:
I have issued the command -- and I'll have anybody who utters but one
word
of criticism executed by firing squad -- that our war aim does not
consist
of reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy.

Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formations in readiness -- for
the
present only in the East -- with orders to them to send to death
mercilessly
and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation
and
language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we

need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

Source: Adolf Hitler, Obersalzberg, August 22, 1939, speech delivered by

Hitler to the Supreme Commanders and Commanding Generals; as stated by
Former Bureau Chief of the Associated Press in Berlin, Louis Lochner, in
his
book What About Germany? (New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1942), p. 2.
This
particular language does not appear in any of the other primary source
accounts of Hitler's speech.
I also found a similar reference in the following paper:
Dadrian, Vahakn N.
      The historical and legal interconnections between the Armenian
      genocide and the Jewish Holocaust: From impunity to retributive
      justice.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale Journal of International Law,
      1998

Page 538*Quoting from 2nd paragraph*“Who after all is today speaking of
the
destruction of the Armenians?” is another statement attributed to
Hitler.
The statement is highlighted in block letters on a granite wall of the
Exhibition Hall of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D. C….
Trust this might be of help.
Sincerely,

Joan Mathes
Information Services
Post Office Box 3477, Jerusalem, 91039, Israel    Tel: 972-2-644-3687
Fax: 972-2-6443443 www.yadvashem.org.il



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Joanne Shawhan
Library Media Specialist
Cobleskill-Richmondville High School
PO Box 269
Warnerville NY 12187
(518)234-3565 x1151
(518) 234-9006 (fax)
jshawhan@nycap.rr.com
shawhanj@crcs.k12.ny.us

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