5+ArmenianWorld+Reaction

= __World Reaction to the Armenian Genocide__ =

The world had very little to say against the atrocities of the Armenian Genocide. In 1915, few, if any people knew about the Armenian Genocide. Those who did turned a blind eye or responded weakly. For that very reason, today it is called the forgotten genocide. Though today many more people know about it and the nation of Turkey still does not declare it a genocide. There are not many quotes protesting the genocide at that time, but as it became more exposed over time, many more people have commented on this action. These are few quotes that cold be found.



** [|Jimmy Carter] **
May 16, 1978, White House ceremony It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren't any Nuremberg trials. ===** [|Theodore Roosevelt] **=== May 11, 1918, letter to Cleveland Hoadley Dodge ...the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

===**  [|Herbert Hoover] **=== The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, 1952 The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries—all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind.

There are also those that applaud the armenian Genocide...

[[image:adolf-hitler.jpg width="71" height="101" align="left"]] [|Adolf Hitler]
While persuading his associates that a Jewish holocaust would be tolerated by the west stated... Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?“Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?”

** [|Enver Pasha] **
One of the triumvirate rulers publicly declared on 19 May 1916... The Ottoman Empire should be cleaned up of the Armenians and the Lebanese. We have destroyed the former by the sword, we shall destroy the latter through starvation. In reply to US Ambassador Morgenthau who was deploring the massacres against Armenians and attributing them to irresponsible subalterns and underlings in the distant provinces, Enver's reply was... You are greatly mistaken. We have this country absolutely under our control. I have no desire to shift the blame onto our underlings and I am entirely willing to accept the responsibility myself for everything that has taken place.

** [|Talat Pasha] **
In a conversation with Dr. Mordtmann of the German Embassy in June 1915... Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate (grundlich aufzaumen) its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention. After the German Ambassador persistently brought up the Armenian question in 1918, Talat said "with a smile"... What on earth do you want? The question is settled. There are no more Armenians.

Those were two of the three dictators who ruled Turkey at the time of the Genocide

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