Armenian Genocide event
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Claims (14)
Turkey carried_out_attack
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“Idihad government extended economic incentives to Turks willing to participate in the deportation and murder of Armenians. During the 19th century, the U.S. government offered bounties for murdering Native Americans and perhaps more fundame…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 18:52
Robert Lansing covered_up
Armenian Genocide host_asserted
“had not been specifically banned by the Hague and Geneva Convention, these actions were inherently criminal under the most elementary norms of human behavior. This was, they said, a crime against humanity. Lansing strongly objected to this.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 36:01
The Young Turks carried_out_attack
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“known as Iliad, took power in Turkey and brought the country into an alliance with Germany. They were the original Young Turks. Their cruelty and violence still reverberates there today. In the first months of World War I, the Young Turks i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 4:50
Turkey carried_out_attack
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“by the U.S., courtesy of Sullivan and Cromwell. Then they would shoot the survivors. The government then secretly ordered mass executions of Armenian intellectuals and political leaders in the spring of 1915. The state also uprooted Armenia…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 5:59
Turkey covered_up
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“in order to help their political movering over oil concessions in the Middle East. The dominant faction of Turkish society never accepted Armenian claims as legitimate, despite the strong evidence of genocide established by Turkey's own cou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 32:59
Mustafa Kemal covered_up
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“A new movement welcomed idiotists in their rank and placed some of the party veterans in leading post. Kemal's movement enjoyed great influence in the post-war Turkish military, interior ministries, and particularly the police. Kemalist sym…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 16:19
U.S. State Department covered_up
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“Our task would be simple if the reports of the atrocities could be declared untrue and even exaggerated, but the evidence is irrefutable, Dulles wrote to Bristol. The State Department's intervention in U.S. publishers to shift the tone of n…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 23:49
Mark Bristol covered_up
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“than might be enjoyed by any conventional ambassador. As the Civil War unfolded inside of Turkey, Bristol barred newspaper reporters from access to areas where renewed massacres of the Armenians was taking place, and he knew they were takin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 22:49
William Colby covered_up
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“was not a disinterested party. The Turkish government had granted him an oil concession in Iraq that was potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Writing in an influential journal, Current History, Chester contended that the Armen…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 27:15
U.S. State Department covered_up
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“Now, where's Bridget? Bridget, if you wouldn't mind, pull up Joseph Grew's biography and post that for me, because he pops up in a very interesting place in World War II. The U.S., which had been the principal international supporter of...…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 28:53
Turkey covered_up
Armenian Genocide host_asserted
“The genocide of Armenians involved thousands of perpetrators and tens of thousands of beneficiaries that stole Armenian property. Thus, even Turkey's own post-war government found it difficult to try individual ringleaders without putting t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 41:05
Turkey carried_out_attack
Armenian Genocide book_quoted
“So obviously we suffered a lot less, but we were still at 120,000 dead. Civilians sacrificed the most. In Turkey, the ruling junta had attempted to exterminate the country's largest minority, the Armenians, through pogroms, mass murder, and…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splenda Blond Beast #2 @ 9:07
Ottoman Empire carried_out_attack
Armenian Genocide guest_asserted
“the reasoning that it was given, that they viewed them as a threat. They didn't view them as a threat necessarily because of their wealth. They viewed them as a threat because of their religious beliefs and their refusal to convert to Islam…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 50:05
Ottoman Empire assassinated
Armenian Genocide guest_asserted
“That was ongoing throughout World War I, which led to, and you're right in the fact that it wasn't, but they didn't just take Armenians that had wealth. They wanted them all gone, which is why they rounded them up and put them in the desert…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 50:33
Mentions (44)
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The Immediate Demands of Justice. So remember that this book started off, we're going to go through both the Armenian, which is a relatively small part of the book, genocide, and then into World War II genocide and find out who was really b…
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So obviously we suffered a lot less, but we were still at 120,000 dead. Civilians sacrificed the most. In Turkey, the ruling junta had attempted to exterminate the country's largest minority, the Armenians, through pogroms, mass murder, and…
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They cited 32 specific crimes, including massacre of civilians, torture and massacre of prisoners, the use of human shields, mass requisition of private property, destruction of hospital ships, aerial bombardment of undefended cities, blah,…
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by a large majority condemning enemy violations of what they term laws of humanity, particularly those of the Turkish prosecution of Armenians. This opened the door to international trials of Turkish leaders and perhaps the trial of central…
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I don't care for it all, obviously. But anyway, back to our current book, The Splendid Blonde Beast. This book, just as an overview, it's going to take us through the Turkey-Armenian genocide. And there's a reason why they do that. That's i…
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doesn't really have anything to do with our investigation of World War II and after as it relates to Operation Gladio, except the author makes the argument that the Armenian genocide conducted by Turkey was almost like a dry run for Hitler.…
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as the author did. So you can decide for yourself if that is in fact true and how, because again, we're all about patterns. And you have today, because obviously all of this stuff carries through to today. This World War I, the Turkish-Arme…
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Armenian genocide of 1915 through 18 and Hitler's Holocaust of Jews, as well as the U.S. government's response to these tragedies, will be looked at in this book. And he says that genocidal societies usually go through an evolution during w…
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theft, and in some cases, complicity with mass murder. They committed these crimes not so much out of an ideological conviction, but more often as a means of preserving their influence within the German economy and society. A somewhat simil…
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Only by understanding the roots of evil do we gain the possibility of shaping the future so that it won't happen again. He goes on to say the Turkish murders of Armenians and the Nazi Holocaust are more deeply linked than simply being two e…
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of the then existing structure of international law and international relations. That failure was inevitable, but it was a certain terrible sense of logic that resulted in the mass murder committed within the context of international law as…
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It was the Turkish government's attempted genocide of the country's largest Armenian population that had led to the demand for a clear international ban on crimes against humanity. Turkey was the center of the Ottoman Empire, and the Armeni…
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known as Iliad, took power in Turkey and brought the country into an alliance with Germany. They were the original Young Turks. Their cruelty and violence still reverberates there today. In the first months of World War I, the Young Turks i…
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by the U.S., courtesy of Sullivan and Cromwell. Then they would shoot the survivors. The government then secretly ordered mass executions of Armenian intellectuals and political leaders in the spring of 1915. The state also uprooted Armenia…
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This is very similar to the Phoenix program as well as what they did in Cambodia. When the camps became full, the Turkish expelled the people into the desert of what is today Syria and Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians died from star…
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and used it for their own. Many Turks prospered by liquidating Armenian businesses, stealing their stocks, and seizing Armenian farms and real estate. The genocide was particularly cruel to Armenian women and girls who became objects of per…
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Turkish police encouraged gangs of thugs to prey upon the deportees as a means of humiliating and destroying these women. Meanwhile, some Armenian girls were able to escape deportation by announcing a religious conversion to Islam. Turkish …
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surviving Turkish, German, and U.S. documents established that the IDIAD expected to strike quickly and to keep deportations and massacres secret and to exterminate the Armenians as a race before the outside world learned of any of it. The …
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In such cases, deporting them along with Armenians, the Turkish government made a careful effort to explain away leaks that appeared in the press as nothing more than exaggerated accounts of casualties of war. Their empire was primarily Isl…
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including a German pastor by the name of Johannes Lippius, made determined efforts to record the massacres and deportations and to mobilize world opinion against Turkish actions. The U.S. ambassador to Turkey was none other than Henry Morge…
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Tragically, the Armenians could supply an almost unlimited number of accounts of these tragedies. Unlike some war propaganda, most of these stories were true. In the end, the Armenians and their supporters failed to mobilize international s…
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denouncing the mass killings of Armenians as crimes against humanities. They warned the leaders of Turkish governments that they would be held personally responsible. But there was little behind the rhetoric. The associated powers basically…
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The group that ruled Turkey had settled into Damascus and exercised local control over much of what is today Syria, Jordan, and Israel. In late 1915, while the Turkish efforts to exterminate Armenians were at their height, Jamal, and you sp…
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and convinced him to carry an offer to the governments of the associated powers. If Tsarist Russia, France, and Britain would back him, Jamal promised he would undertake a coup of the young Turks in the massacres and take Turkey out of the …
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Well, the Armenian people. Jamal afforded the Allies their one great opportunity to subvert the Ottoman Empire from within and to save lives. They let it go. Nor did the Allies exploit his attempted...…
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betrayal of his colleagues for propaganda or intelligence purposes. As far as can be determined, the young Turks never learned of his secret correspondence with the enemy. By the time Paris Peace Conference began, there was widespread senti…
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Dictatorship crumbled as the war drew to a close and a new western-backed Turkish government signed the armistice with the associated powers in late 1918. Two days later, most of the senior IDIAD leaders fled their country for Germany, whic…
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including state and local administrators, party activists, Turkish businessmen, and farmers who had seized Armenian property, policemen, and a variety of specialists that were culpable in the mass violence. The new Turkish government arrest…
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theft, and similar offenses. The new Turkish authorities carried out a series of these trials between 1919 and 1920, placing on the public record an important collection of confessions of former IDIAD members, secret state and party documen…
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several hundred leaders that were culpable in the crimes. Much of the evidence was published in an official Turkish parliamentary gazette. The trials were strongly opposed by a rising Turkish nationalist movement, however, which regarded th…
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Senior officials of all three Western powers became preoccupied with oil politics in the Middle East. It even led to an awkward new term called basically oil diplomacy. For a short time after the war, the three allies pressed the new Turkis…
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payment for damages to Armenians and Greeks for the lives and property lost during the massacres, establishment of an independent Armenian Republic in northeast Turkey, and transfer to Greece of the port city of Smyrna. Second, they demande…
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But the associated powers could not agree among themselves on the terms of the division of the Mosul oil fields. A new fighting broke out between Armenian nationalists who sought to establish their republic they believed had been guaranteed…
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contributed to an escalating cycle of revenge killings and renewed massacres in Turkey. By the end of 1920, the Kemalists were clearly in the, they had control. Having established a rival government in Ankara, in the center of the country, …
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than might be enjoyed by any conventional ambassador. As the Civil War unfolded inside of Turkey, Bristol barred newspaper reporters from access to areas where renewed massacres of the Armenians was taking place, and he knew they were takin…
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represents Standard Oil. After the Paris conference, Dulles had served briefly as chief of staff to Bristol, then moved on to Washington to become the chief of the State Department's Near East desk, just as the oil diplomacy rose to its hey…
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A half dozen senior administrative officials responsible for various aspects of the refugee issue met in the office of the Secretary of Treasury, who happened to be Henry Morgenthau Jr., the son of World War I U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, who…
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of Romanian gypsies, people they suspected of being communist, and of Jewish people. But they carried out these killings on a local scale, not in concentration camps at this point. The cold pogroms were kindred to Turkey's World War I exter…
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Between September 1939 and the summer of 1942, a casualty rate approaching that which the Turks had achieved in a comparable time with the Armenians. Hitler was well aware of Turkey's genocide of the Armenians and the failure of the interna…
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Thus, for the time being, I have sent to the east my death head units with the order to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of the Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital space that we need. Who…
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On at least three other occasions, Hitler pointed to the brutality of the Turkish regime and its willingness to strike without mercy as a model for his government. A new and more terrible wave of slaughter began when the Germans invaded the…
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That if you can create the precedence, which they did in World War I with the Armenians, that if you are, quote unquote, at war with someone and anything you do with areas that you occupy, then fine. And the U.S. was deathly afraid that the…
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despite what had happened in Armenia, no action was done in those intervening years to make any effort to address crimes against humanity in international law. They had just experienced it in World War I, and they did nothing about it becau…
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And it points out some points that I was unaware of, like the Armenian slaughter during World War I really set the stage for how the Nazis were going to be treated in World War II. It's a phenomenal transition to illustrate just how long th…