German-Turkish racism

PanARMENIAN.Net - Of course, the political consequences of recognizing the Armenian Genocide for Israel are much more serious than the moral ones. Today Turkey is Israel's almost the only ally in the Middle East.

The persecutions were initiated by the boycott of Jews and their firms, functioning in Germany on April 1, 1933, which was later followed by a powerful wave of racial laws against Jews working at State Institutions or working by certain professions. The "Nuremberg Law" put an end to the Jewish equality in Germany and identified Jewry as racial term since September 15, 1935. The anti-Jewish hysteria in Germany led to massacre in 1938 (night, November 9) recorded in history as "Crystal night" (because of the fragments of glass, covering the streets of country's cities).

Traditionally the victims of the Holocaust are considered to be the 6 million Jews from Europe. However, no victim name-list exists. The basic source of the statistic data of the Holocaust is the comparison of prewar and postwar census. By the end of the war the Nazis covered up all the tracks of the concentration camps; only testimonies are alive to this day. In the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem in Jerusalem personal documents about 3 million victims are kept. The lack of data is explained with the fact that often Jewish Communities were exterminated to the last person, so that no relatives, friends, or family members were left alive to give the names of the dead.

The US Senate called to make the secret archives available, containing documental data on lives and deaths of millions of people who were kept at Nazi concentration camps during World War II. In the Resolution the Senate called the international commission having control over the access to the archive to accelerate the consideration of this issue in its next session, which is to be held in Amsterdam in May.

Till recently the archives in Germany were kept top secret. The significance of the documents became particularly great over the last several months after the representative of the Associate Press gained a noticeable access to Nazi materials, with the condition of not disclosing the names of the victims. "The archives contain from 30 to 50 million pages of documentations telling about individual fates of more than 17 million victims of Nazi persecutions," the Resolution states.

Will the Ottoman archives be available? According to Turkish officials, "their archives are open to any kind of investigations". However according to a number of historians, including Armenian historians the archives are thoroughly mopped. But there are documents, which became historical facts with thanks to the diplomats working during the years of World War I in Istanbul. Among such historical facts the telegrams of the Turkish Minister of Home Affairs can be found. "The Armenians' rights to live and work in Turkey are completely out of question. The government taking up the whole responsibility orders to let no child alive and does not let anyone protect them - September 9, 1915. Turkish Minister of Home Affairs." It's worth mentioning that the Armenian Genocide was committed with the unspoken agreement of Germany which was one of Turkey's closest allies.