Henry Morgenthau. the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey from 191316 had no question that the Turkish treatment of Armenians was part of a deliberate plan of extermination. He wrote in 1918. "When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations. they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race. they understood this well. and. in their conversations with me. they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact." Morgenthau. who tried so desperately to stop the senseless slaughter. asserted that the horrible events in Turkey "surpass the most beastly and diabolical cruelties ever before perpetrated or imagined in the history of the world." Yet successive Turkish Governments. in an attempt to rewrite history. have tried to cover up this clear case of genocide by denying its very existence. We Join today to proclaim with a united voice that we shall never forget. that history cannot be rewritten. that in order to avoid atrocities in the future. we must always remember the atrocities of the past. Adolf Hitler took advantage of the worlds amnesia. looking at the Armenian genocide as a precedent for his own Holocaust perpetrated against Europes Jews.
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