The Nazis came to take care of Hitlers nonsense ( to get rid of certain religions.)My great great aunt was a little girl when they came and my great great grandpa was in America at that time.
My ancestor was deeply scared and so she hid in a clothes chest filled with clothes, while she was in hiding, the Nazis were lining up people and shooting them, when she came out everyone was dead, I do believe she then travelled to America to live with the rest of her family, Imagine hiding in a chest just as a child and when you come out everyone save it be you are dead!
There are very few Armenians left today, as a guess there are 23.
In 1915, leaders of the Ottoman Empire, including Turkey, took steps to eliminate Armenians from their territory. Forced deportations and massacres were performed from 1915 -1918. The Armenians were Christian and had a lot of national pride. The Armenian nation was in the way of the expansionist efforts of Turkey - and fundamentalist Islam - and these people were a minority of non-islamic believers.
In 1915, Ismail Enver Pasha, one of the leaders of the Ottoman Empire (the country that would become Turkey) and the Young Turk Revolutionary Organization, coordinated the genocide of the Armenian people living in the eastern part of Anatolia. It was a coordinated attempt to drive the Armenians out of their ancestral lands and to eliminate not only them, but all traces that they had ever lived in eastern Anatolia.
The first group attacked and murdered were the Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul. Next, entire villages were expunged of the majority-Armenian, majority-Greek, and majority-Assyrian inhabitants and the names of the cities completely altered to create "theoretical" Turkish names in a process called Turkification. Over 100 cities and townships were Turkified in this way. The Armenians were marched to Deir ez-Zur in the Syrian desert without food and water (the Pontic Greeks and the Assyrians were marched to other places). In addition to numerous deaths from starvation and thirst, there were numerous massacres and concentration camps along the route to Deir ez-Zur. That genocide was the goal is basically assured. This is not to mention the courageous work of Gregoris Balakian who detailed how the system was organized.
In contrast to the Community Answer, it should be noted that the Young Turks like Ismail Enver Pasha, Mehmed Talaat Pasha, and Ahmed Djemal Pasha were not fundamentalist Muslims and they were not inspired by any form of Islamism or Radical Islam. These men were extreme nationalists who wanted to create a modern ethnically Turkish state and saw Islam only as an ethnic identifier (in much the same way the Irish Republican Army saw Catholicism as an ethnic identifier). To compare this genocide to the current actions of Islamic State, al-Qaeda, the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and the Taliban is incorrect. This is more accurately correlated with the Nazi Holocaust or the Rwanda genocide where a certain national goal, in terms of ethnic distribution, was in mind, not a religious goal.
Yes. They attacked Armenians and stole much of their land.
i think it was because they thought the armenians were helpin gthe Russians and also because of they werent Muslims
In the Ottoman empire.
Turkey succeeded in killing or sending away all the Armeians in the Ottoman Empire (which included Present day Turkey and Armenia).
The Armenian Genocide started in 1915. It was systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) during and just afte WW1. The genocide ended in 1923.
The Jews were the victims of attempted genocide during the Holocaust. Today, there are a number of ethnic groups that are the victims of attempted genocide including the Armenians and Rwandan people.
The turks thought that the armenians were secretly hurting turkey, so they tried to kill them all, simmilar to what hitler did.
It is not considered genocide, there was a genocide in Armenia starting on April 24, 1915. Turkey started the genocide and 1.5 million Armenians were killed and most of Armenia is now Turkey including the famous Armenian mountains Ararat and Masis
I think you mean Armenians. These were Eastern Christians occupying the European area of the Ottoman Turkish empire. During WWI (1914-1918) the Ottomans carried out a genocide of the Armenians, although this is still contested by Turkey.
There were several such groups. The Armenians were the most prominently persecuted in what would be a genocide. Greek Orthodox Christians were also persecuted as were certain Kurdish groups. (Most Kurds actually fought alongside the Ottomans.) There were also repressions of Syrian Arabs in southern Anatolia to prevent them from uniting with the British led Meccan Arab Revolts.
1.5 Million Armenians were brutally and monstrously killed. But also Greeks and other minorities were targeted.
Jews and Armenians were the victims of genocide.
The word genocide was made when there was a "genocide", Genocide is like a war but MUCH MUCH worse. Its when a nationality kills EVERY person from another nationality. The first genocide was 1915-1918. The Turkish killed 1,500, 000 Armenians when the Armenians were innocent. It was the only genocide in history. Some Armenians survived, like my great grandparents. Lets hope nothing bad to the Armenians. Thanks for reading!
Most people who know about it regard it with horror. The Turkish government denies it, and there are penalties in Turkey for describing the horrific massacres of the Armenians in 1915-17 as genocide.