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This 5 page paper argues that the Armenian Genocide (1915-1917) may have served as a model for the Nazi extermination of the Jews three decades later. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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history. This paper argues that it may have served as a model for the Nazi extermination of the Jews three decades later. Discussion The Armenian Genocide is the
term used to refer to "the forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands or over a million Armenians, during the government of the Young Turks from 1915
to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire" (Armenian Genocide, 2006). The facts connected with the event are a matter of ongoing dispute; specifically, though the international community generally agrees that
the "events said to comprise what is termed the Armenian Genocide did occur, the Turkish government rejects that it was genocide" (Armenian genocide, 2006). Within the international community, "genocide"
has a very specific meaning, as defined by the United Nations: "Genocide is any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a
national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on
the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring
children of the group to another group" (Harris, 2005). In addition, "[G]enocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, attempt to commit genocide and complicity
in genocide were all declared punishable" (Harris, 2005). The United Nations put the Convention into effect in 1951 and it "remains in effect and unmodified" (Harris, 2005). With this
definition in mind, Turkey alleged that the deaths among the Armenians "were not a result of a state-sponsored plan of mass extermination, but from the result of inter-ethnic strife, disease,
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