"You guys have a slightly different skin tone than we do, and you worship in a slightly different way! You DIE! Oh, and you happen to be living on some land that we want."
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/ i vaguely remember hearing about hitler using the armenian genocide as an excuse for the holocaust, claiming "since nobody remembers that, and it was only a few years ago, nobody will care if we do our thing"
Er, short-short version--the Turks killed a buttload of Armenians back in the 19teens, and officially deny it. All serious historians admit the Armenian Genocide happened.
Thirty-Three words.
Date: 2006-10-12 04:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-12 04:52 pm (UTC)i vaguely remember hearing about hitler using the armenian genocide as an excuse for the holocaust, claiming "since nobody remembers that, and it was only a few years ago, nobody will care if we do our thing"
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Date: 2006-10-12 04:56 pm (UTC)