Ignorance, denial and forgetfulness: the perfect recipe for the perfect crime
Ignorance, denial and forgetfulness: the perfect recipe for the perfect crime

Summary/Abstract: It is quite well known that shortly before invading Poland Hitler gave a speech in which he said: "Who speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?" Indeed, although the Armenian genocide was quite well documented as it happened, it was not long before the first attempts not just to forget it, but also to deny it ever took place, started emerging, much like in the case of the Holocaust 30 year later. This paper traces how denial of the Armenian genocide and Holocaust denial influenced and fed each other through time, by constantly borrowing and exchang¬ing various elements, sometimes chronologically but sometimes also in reverse or¬der (with Armenian genocide deniers using arguments taken from their Holocaust denying counterparts).

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