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Istanbul: International Seminar on Teaching the Holocaust
Arno Klarsfeld: The Holocaust would not have occurred if the Armenian
genocide was sanctioned
Translated from French
As part of the Aladdin Project, to teach and encourage dialogue and
understanding between Jews, Muslims, through the dissemination of
knowledge and the promotion of the history of the Holocaust and its
lessons from the Arab-Muslim populations organization non-government
based in Paris, in cooperation with the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington (USHMM) and with the support of
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), an
intergovernmental organization founded in 1998, an international
seminar was held on 23 and October 24 at the Galatasaray University in
Istanbul (Press release, see link at bottom of page).
Several speakers, academics and officials spoke, including lawyer Arno
Klarsfeld, which we publish the speech in its entirety.
Why is it important to teach the Holocaust even in countries where it
has not occurred
In January 1942, at the Wannsee Conference which brought
administratively up the final solution of the Jewish question had been
invited major directors or representatives of most departments of the
Reich under the leadership of Heydrich who in July 1941 Göring had
entrusted the preparation of the final solution of the Jewish question
in Europe.
Eichmann office 4-AB Sicherheit Polizei Sipo SD Sicherheit Dienst, who
was in charge and the expert since the mid-30s the Jewish problem had
drawn up a list of European countries to whom was the number of Jewish
men, women and children to exterminate.
All European countries were listed, of course Germany, France,
Hungary, Poland, Romania, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg but also
Ireland, England, Switzerland ... and even Turkey in Europe with
55,000 Jews.
So if Nazi Germany had won the war these communities spared t have
also been exterminated and all eleven million European Jews were
annihilated.
As if the panzers of Rommel's Panzer divisions had reached the Suez
Canal and were 'embedded in the Middle East and Palestine, the men of
Sipo and SD have followed the Jewish families who lived there would
have been exterminated.
It is primarily a drama of European civilization. The Holocaust was
executed by an essentially police operation took place on the European
continent under German leadership and everywhere with local
accomplices except neutral, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden,
which were indirectly complicit if only by backflow or refusal.
Westerbock of Holland, of Mechelen, Belgium, in the Drancy France,
Fossoli di Carpi in Italy, Copenhagen, Oslo, Berlin, Vienna,
Luxembourg, the Baltic States, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia,
Slovakia, Greece, Corfu, Rhodes, Macedonia, Thrace, Croatia, Serbia,
Ukraine went convoys loaded with Jewish families who were heading
towards the center of Europe. There were implanted huge
slaughterhouses created to liquidate the people who had the name:
Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, Belzec, Chelmno,
Stutthof. Millions more Jews were killed by hunger, cold,
physiological misery in many ghettos, like the Warsaw or lods in many
camps, such as Transnistria, Dachau, Buchenwald or even Gurs "free
zone" of Vichy massacred in mass graves such as those at Babi Yar or
Ponar, asphyxiated in gas vans which operated from the Baltic to the
Adriatic shot roadside in steps death that preceded the release of so
few survivors.
It is a drama of Christian civilization. The Holocaust took place on a
continent where, with the exception of Jews and some Muslims in Bosnia
and Kosovo, all Europeans were Christians, Catholics, Protestants and
Orthodox. The teaching of contempt for so long provided by
Christianity facilitated the task of the organizers of the "final
solution of the Jewish question" by the indifference of those who did
not take part in but which were opposed to the point. The killing of
two thirds of European Jews during a war that bloodied Europe recalls
the massacre of the Jews blamed for the Great Plague of the fourteenth
century and killed wherever spreading the epidemic. In these
circumstances, the middle of the fourteenth century and the
mid-twentieth a long and powerful anti Jewish campaign formerly
conducted by the excesses of Christianity, and closer to us by the
excesses of nationalism resulted in a period of crisis and anguish for
the masses in the mass murder of European Jews This is a drama of
Western civilization. The genocide was planned and organized in Europe
by a State of West German state, a country, Germany, one of the most
advanced in the world, the views economic, social, administrative,
technical, and military cultural and intellectual.
It is a genocide that struck the Jewish people, who revealed to the
world monotheism, who created the moral law, the Bible, and gave birth
to Christianity. The moral values in Judaism for thousands of years
have become the moral values of Western democracies. From Pharaoh to
Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin totalitarian and autocratic regimes are
more or less persecuted the Jews and kept in substandard conditions.
Republican revolutions (USA, France) released the Jews democracies
gave them the opportunity to reach their full potential. By their
culture and their memory so long suffered persecution, Jews generally
wear their love of freedom and respect for the human person.
So it is the entire West that is concerned with the Holocaust and in
particular the European continent. It is not a tragedy involving the
Muslim world, Africa, Asia or Latin America probably feel the need to
erect monuments in honor of the people exterminated by the white
settlers in the name of Christianity and the superiority of Western
civilization.
It should also be remembered, France and the fact, that was across the
African continent black behavior of the major European powers, France
and England in mind, the organization of the inhuman "treatment of
niggers "and treated because they were born black. We remember
criminal raids, killings of those who resisted and unnecessary
separation of families, the terrible conditions of travel in the hold,
the selection of suitable and unsuitable, forced labor in shackles,
sanctions and mutilation, the statutory rape of black wives, abduction
of children, unable to keep their original language and culture, the
time of contempt and time skinning: all shared some European states
continent arrogating the rights of white supermen, crowned with glory
for having massacred hostile tribes and have brought their
civilization they did not want.
Yet the Holocaust challenges the universal consciousness because of
its magnitude, it has revealed worrying about the man and the
impotence of his exemplary only to prevent further massacres and
genocides in other regions the world that the Western world. Until
now, thanks to the war in Europe was banished from the continent. I
hope that Europe will continue to ban the totalitarianism of the left
and right. Also avoid economic crises and all the social and political
upheavals unleashed the greatest fears, instincts, passions, violence,
cruelty, war and death. Defend the values of a true political and
social democracy and trying to expand the limits of our planet.
So why is it important to teach about the Holocaust, even in countries
where it has not occurred.
I think it is important because it teaches various lessons of life and
dignity.Why not bow to his own interests, learn to disobey, do not be
swayed by propaganda, mimicry, maintain and strengthen critical
thinking, not to be regimenting be tolerant, dear human dignity ...
1. If the Holocaust could take place in Europe in the most educated
people is that our civilization is priced is a varnish that can crack
each crisis
2. If the Holocaust was made possible mainly by men who had obtained
degrees in law is that the teaching of the law is not taught to be
fair
3. If the Holocaust could happen as easily as it is because of the
weight of propaganda, so it should be banned by law the speeches and
writings that stigmatize and incites hatred.
4. If the Holocaust was allowed to proceed without hardly anyone comes
to the aid of Jews is that Israel is vital for the Jewish people.
5. If the Holocaust could take place is mainly because of the morbid
desire overkill but a man who was able to impose its will in an
already totalitarian state, so we must cherish democracy.
6. If the Holocaust was allowed to proceed it is also because everyone
who was a cog in the process convinced that his responsibility was low
or non-existent. This is why we must teach that part is to be
responsible
7. Finally it is essential that nations recognize the mistakes they
have committed, not to repent, no repents than what is personally
responsible but because it illuminates the past and using that it is
renewed not. France has done for his complicity in the Final Solution
of the Jewish Question. It is commendable that Turkey do it for the
genocide of the Armenians. If genocide was followed by international
sanctions it is likely that the genocide against the Jews would not
have occurred.
Friday, November 1, 2013,
Jean Eckian © armenews.com
http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article'398
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Arno Klarsfeld: The Holocaust would not have occurred if the Armenian
genocide was sanctioned
Translated from French
As part of the Aladdin Project, to teach and encourage dialogue and
understanding between Jews, Muslims, through the dissemination of
knowledge and the promotion of the history of the Holocaust and its
lessons from the Arab-Muslim populations organization non-government
based in Paris, in cooperation with the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington (USHMM) and with the support of
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), an
intergovernmental organization founded in 1998, an international
seminar was held on 23 and October 24 at the Galatasaray University in
Istanbul (Press release, see link at bottom of page).
Several speakers, academics and officials spoke, including lawyer Arno
Klarsfeld, which we publish the speech in its entirety.
Why is it important to teach the Holocaust even in countries where it
has not occurred
In January 1942, at the Wannsee Conference which brought
administratively up the final solution of the Jewish question had been
invited major directors or representatives of most departments of the
Reich under the leadership of Heydrich who in July 1941 Göring had
entrusted the preparation of the final solution of the Jewish question
in Europe.
Eichmann office 4-AB Sicherheit Polizei Sipo SD Sicherheit Dienst, who
was in charge and the expert since the mid-30s the Jewish problem had
drawn up a list of European countries to whom was the number of Jewish
men, women and children to exterminate.
All European countries were listed, of course Germany, France,
Hungary, Poland, Romania, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg but also
Ireland, England, Switzerland ... and even Turkey in Europe with
55,000 Jews.
So if Nazi Germany had won the war these communities spared t have
also been exterminated and all eleven million European Jews were
annihilated.
As if the panzers of Rommel's Panzer divisions had reached the Suez
Canal and were 'embedded in the Middle East and Palestine, the men of
Sipo and SD have followed the Jewish families who lived there would
have been exterminated.
It is primarily a drama of European civilization. The Holocaust was
executed by an essentially police operation took place on the European
continent under German leadership and everywhere with local
accomplices except neutral, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden,
which were indirectly complicit if only by backflow or refusal.
Westerbock of Holland, of Mechelen, Belgium, in the Drancy France,
Fossoli di Carpi in Italy, Copenhagen, Oslo, Berlin, Vienna,
Luxembourg, the Baltic States, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia,
Slovakia, Greece, Corfu, Rhodes, Macedonia, Thrace, Croatia, Serbia,
Ukraine went convoys loaded with Jewish families who were heading
towards the center of Europe. There were implanted huge
slaughterhouses created to liquidate the people who had the name:
Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Majdanek, Belzec, Chelmno,
Stutthof. Millions more Jews were killed by hunger, cold,
physiological misery in many ghettos, like the Warsaw or lods in many
camps, such as Transnistria, Dachau, Buchenwald or even Gurs "free
zone" of Vichy massacred in mass graves such as those at Babi Yar or
Ponar, asphyxiated in gas vans which operated from the Baltic to the
Adriatic shot roadside in steps death that preceded the release of so
few survivors.
It is a drama of Christian civilization. The Holocaust took place on a
continent where, with the exception of Jews and some Muslims in Bosnia
and Kosovo, all Europeans were Christians, Catholics, Protestants and
Orthodox. The teaching of contempt for so long provided by
Christianity facilitated the task of the organizers of the "final
solution of the Jewish question" by the indifference of those who did
not take part in but which were opposed to the point. The killing of
two thirds of European Jews during a war that bloodied Europe recalls
the massacre of the Jews blamed for the Great Plague of the fourteenth
century and killed wherever spreading the epidemic. In these
circumstances, the middle of the fourteenth century and the
mid-twentieth a long and powerful anti Jewish campaign formerly
conducted by the excesses of Christianity, and closer to us by the
excesses of nationalism resulted in a period of crisis and anguish for
the masses in the mass murder of European Jews This is a drama of
Western civilization. The genocide was planned and organized in Europe
by a State of West German state, a country, Germany, one of the most
advanced in the world, the views economic, social, administrative,
technical, and military cultural and intellectual.
It is a genocide that struck the Jewish people, who revealed to the
world monotheism, who created the moral law, the Bible, and gave birth
to Christianity. The moral values in Judaism for thousands of years
have become the moral values of Western democracies. From Pharaoh to
Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin totalitarian and autocratic regimes are
more or less persecuted the Jews and kept in substandard conditions.
Republican revolutions (USA, France) released the Jews democracies
gave them the opportunity to reach their full potential. By their
culture and their memory so long suffered persecution, Jews generally
wear their love of freedom and respect for the human person.
So it is the entire West that is concerned with the Holocaust and in
particular the European continent. It is not a tragedy involving the
Muslim world, Africa, Asia or Latin America probably feel the need to
erect monuments in honor of the people exterminated by the white
settlers in the name of Christianity and the superiority of Western
civilization.
It should also be remembered, France and the fact, that was across the
African continent black behavior of the major European powers, France
and England in mind, the organization of the inhuman "treatment of
niggers "and treated because they were born black. We remember
criminal raids, killings of those who resisted and unnecessary
separation of families, the terrible conditions of travel in the hold,
the selection of suitable and unsuitable, forced labor in shackles,
sanctions and mutilation, the statutory rape of black wives, abduction
of children, unable to keep their original language and culture, the
time of contempt and time skinning: all shared some European states
continent arrogating the rights of white supermen, crowned with glory
for having massacred hostile tribes and have brought their
civilization they did not want.
Yet the Holocaust challenges the universal consciousness because of
its magnitude, it has revealed worrying about the man and the
impotence of his exemplary only to prevent further massacres and
genocides in other regions the world that the Western world. Until
now, thanks to the war in Europe was banished from the continent. I
hope that Europe will continue to ban the totalitarianism of the left
and right. Also avoid economic crises and all the social and political
upheavals unleashed the greatest fears, instincts, passions, violence,
cruelty, war and death. Defend the values of a true political and
social democracy and trying to expand the limits of our planet.
So why is it important to teach about the Holocaust, even in countries
where it has not occurred.
I think it is important because it teaches various lessons of life and
dignity.Why not bow to his own interests, learn to disobey, do not be
swayed by propaganda, mimicry, maintain and strengthen critical
thinking, not to be regimenting be tolerant, dear human dignity ...
1. If the Holocaust could take place in Europe in the most educated
people is that our civilization is priced is a varnish that can crack
each crisis
2. If the Holocaust was made possible mainly by men who had obtained
degrees in law is that the teaching of the law is not taught to be
fair
3. If the Holocaust could happen as easily as it is because of the
weight of propaganda, so it should be banned by law the speeches and
writings that stigmatize and incites hatred.
4. If the Holocaust was allowed to proceed without hardly anyone comes
to the aid of Jews is that Israel is vital for the Jewish people.
5. If the Holocaust could take place is mainly because of the morbid
desire overkill but a man who was able to impose its will in an
already totalitarian state, so we must cherish democracy.
6. If the Holocaust was allowed to proceed it is also because everyone
who was a cog in the process convinced that his responsibility was low
or non-existent. This is why we must teach that part is to be
responsible
7. Finally it is essential that nations recognize the mistakes they
have committed, not to repent, no repents than what is personally
responsible but because it illuminates the past and using that it is
renewed not. France has done for his complicity in the Final Solution
of the Jewish Question. It is commendable that Turkey do it for the
genocide of the Armenians. If genocide was followed by international
sanctions it is likely that the genocide against the Jews would not
have occurred.
Friday, November 1, 2013,
Jean Eckian © armenews.com
http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article'398
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress