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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?"
Gerald Ford
Addressing the US House of Representatives. "Mr. Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I. - Congressional Record, pg. 8890"
Talat Pasha
In a conversation with Dr. Mordtmann of the German Embassy in June 1915? 6/1/1915 - "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. What on earth do you want? The question is settled. There are no more Armenians."
Theodore Roosevelt
May 11, 1918, letter to Cleveland Hoadley Dodge 5/11/1918 - ". . . 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."
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