The Armenian Genocide that began in World War I, during the drive
to transform the plural Ottoman Empire into a monoethnic Turkey,
removed a people from its homeland and erased most evidence of
their three-thousand-year-old material and spiritual culture. For
the rest of this century, changing world events, calculated
silence, and active suppression of memory have overshadowed the
initial global outrage and have threatened to make this calamity
"the forgotten genocide" of world history.
This volume squarely confronts the denial of the Armenian
Genocide by the Turkish government, which has expended considerable
political and financial resources to repress the facts surrounding
this event and even enlisted American and European pseudo-academics
to rationalize the issue. Fourteen leading scholars from the United
States, Canada, France, England, Germany, and Israel here examine
the Armenian Genocide from a variety of perspectives to refute
those efforts and show how remembrance and denial have shaped
perceptions of the event.
Many of the chapters draw on archival records and court
proceedings to review the precursors and process of the genocide,
examine German complicity, and share the responses of victims,
perpetrators, and bystanders. Other contributions consider the
impact of the event on Jews before and during the Holocaust; the
role of memoirs, oral histories, and literature; the various
manifestations of denial; and the contest between remembrance and
denial in the academic arena.
Public awareness of this tragic event has now been heightened by
studies of both comparative genocide and the Armenian Genocide
itself. Remembrance and Denial shows that although rationalization
of theArmenian Genocide is far more advanced than denial of the
Holocaust, strong similarities exist in the approaches and
strategies of the deniers. It seeks redress for eighty years of
silence and stakes out a position that will be difficult to
deny.
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