Armenian intellectuals. clergy. and leaders were rounded up and taken to their deaths. What was to olow was the ethnli cleansing of the native homeland of the Armenian people. Over a penod of 8 years. 1.5 million Armenians were murdered and another 500.000 were deported. Selore World War 4. over 2 million Armenians lvd in the Ottoman Empire. By 1923. the entire population of Anatolia and Weten Armenia had been killed or deported. This was the first genocide of the 20th cantury. but. tragically. it was not the fast Prior to the Invasion of Poland. Adoil Hitler asked. "Who today remembers the exterminallon of the Armenians?" In a climate where no one remembered. the death camps became a realy.
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