This is because Herr Rohrbach unlocks the origin of the Armenian relocations and much of the inspiration for this event, which was unprecedented in Ottoman history and which therefore deserves full investigation. They are fighting the good fight at last, in the ranks of the progressive forces, having learned their lesson and abandoned the sonderweg.īut we have to give credit to this recent movement, no matter how ill-informed and misplaced it is, for drawing attention to one of the most substantial links in the German/ Armenian/ Ottoman connection – Paul Rohrbach. Whatever the reason the German academics have combined with the Armenian lobby in just the same way as the British propagandists did a century ago, to do down the Turk in the common interests of humanity. Perhaps they wish to share their guilt with others, and the Turks are useful targets, since they were for long the object of Christian prejudice, and the traditional scapegoats – the Jews – are just not available anymore to any right-thinking German. ![]() Perhaps these right-thinking Germans are so appalled at their country’s history, mystified by the Churchillian narrative, and wish to cleanse themselves of all evil in the world. What their motivation is one can only speculate. However, there has been a recent revival of this theme, now conducted largely by guilt-ridden Anglophile German academics. It was the stuff that the propagandists of Wellington House took up and Armenian revolutionaries responded to by constructing their narratives around what was required to incite hatred against the Turk in the West. A popular theme of the peace loving English Liberals, in their quest to salve their guilty consciences at having become ferocious war mongers, was that it was a war of “civilisation against the barbarian” in which the German barbarians of the west, which the Romans had failed to civilise, had been joined by the Turkish barbarians of the east, who had always been massacring and ravishing poor Christians. Little surprise then that Herr Hitler and his few years of mayhem dominate the school curriculums when the centuries of things which inspired him in his mission are kept from the minds of the young.įrom the time when the Ottomans were forced into the Great War of 1914 there were attempts at associating them with Germany. The Nazis, after all, constitute the bench mark in evil for the Western World, handily drawing attention away from other evils like the industrial slave trade which built the economies of Europe and colonialist Imperialism and its vast ethnic cleansing and extirpations of peoples across the world done in the name of Christian civilising. Successfully associating a historical event with Hitler and the Nazis/Fascists is the ultimate objective of all who wish to damn an enemy. In recent years there has been much focus on the German connection, for obvious reasons. ![]() What is the origin of the Ottoman relocations of the Armenians of Eastern Anatolia, which Armenian campaigners describe as the centrepiece of the “Armenian Genocide”?
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