http://www.armeniandiaspora.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-12384.html
WORLD Magazine October 23, 2004 Page 52
By Marvin Olasky (mailbag@worldmag.com <mailto:mailbag@worldmag.com>)
Editor's warning: This article contains graphic material.
VAN, Turkey -- As Turkey moves toward eventual membership in the European Union (see Madisonian Turkey from this week's issue), this Muslim nation should also come to grips with a terrible crime that has gone largely unpunished.
Armenians, many of them Christian, lived in this area of what is now eastern Turkey for about 2,000 years. Despite suffering massacres in 1894 and 1895 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, they still numbered well over 1 million in 1914. Ten years later only scattered handfuls were left.
Adolf Hitler used what is now called the Armenian holocaust as his model for an even greater holocaust. Ottoman Turks developed techniques later used by the Nazis, such as piling 90 people into a train car with a capacity of 36, and leaving them locked in for days, terrified, starving, and often dead.
Hitler was even more impressed with how the Turks got away with genocide. When Hitler on Aug. 22, 1939, explained that his plans to invade Poland included the formation of death squads that would exterminate men, women, and children, he asked, "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" ...
Hitler may not have been in Turkey...but many Germans were, they were allies.
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/photo_wegner.html
The Trains:
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/Education.56/current_category.117/resourceguide_detail.html