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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, who is saluting, stand on a balcony before a crowd at one of their many meetings, c. 1938. http://viewimages.lycos.com Getty Images, Inc. Copyright © 2000 Getty Images, Inc. |
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, who is saluting, stand on a balcony before a crowd at one of their many meetings, c. 1938. http://viewimages.lycos.com Getty Images, Inc. Copyright © 2000 Getty Images, Inc. |
The Armenian Genocide
Eight days before he invaded Poland in 1939, Hitler exhorted his high command to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women and children who stood in the way of German Lebensraum. This directive was given with impunity and had a historical precedent: ''Who today,'' Hitler said, ''remembers the extermination of the Armenians?''