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For historian Robert Melson, "The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust are the quintessential instances of total genocide in the twentieth century." [17] According to historians Dominik J. Schaller and Jürgen Zimmerer , it is widely believed that there is a causal relationship between the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust. [18]
The Armenian genocide [a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 March 2025. Governments' recognition of the Ottoman empire's mass killing of Armenians as genocide The eternal flame at the center of the twelve slabs, located at the Armenian Genocide Memorial complex in Yerevan, Armenia Armenian genocide recognition is the formal acceptance of the fact that the ...
The Armenian Genocide Memorial complex (Armenian: Հայոց ցեղասպանության զոհերի հուշահամալիր, Hayots tseghaspanutyan zoheri hushahamalir, or Ծիծեռնակաբերդ, Tsitsernakaberd) is Armenia's official memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide, built in 1967 on the hill of Tsitsernakaberd (Armenian: Ծիծեռնակաբերդ) in Yerevan.
The Armenian genocide was the systematic murder of around 1.5 million ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. [2] [3] [4]Abram L. Sachar, an American historian and founding president of Brandeis University, wrote that "the genocide was cited approvingly twenty-five years later by the Fuehrer... who found the Armenian 'solution' an instructive precedent". [5]
It included films on the Armenian genocide by J. Michael Hagopian and academic research by Hovannisian, Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, Vahakn Dadrian, Vahé Oshagan, and Ronald Suny. [18] [36] [41] The contributions related to the Armenian genocide were later developed into a book edited by Hovannisian, The Armenian Genocide in Perspective (1986). [3]
Eyewitness sketch of the 1894 Sasun massacres. Traditionally the Ottoman millet system offered non-Muslims a subordinate but protected place in society. The nineteenth-century Tanzimat reforms abolished the protections that members of the Armenian millet had previously enjoyed, but did not change the popular perception that they were different and inferior. [17]
Pages in category "Armenian genocide and the Holocaust" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .