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Revision as of 16:17, 30 January 2005 by Tabib (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)I think this page would be considerably improved if names and sources were stated.
Who recalled the quote in his memoires?
When was the speech made?
Are there other references to the speech (though not neccessarily to the very mentioning of the atrocities against the Armenians)?
--Ruhrjung 09:35, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Bardakjian vs. "Hovhanes" vs. Lowry
Many Armenian academicians are only interested in evidence that affirms their identity-forging genocide, closing their eyes to the rest. One that appears to be a true scholar is Dr. Robert John (Hovhanes) who concluded... at least at one time... that the quote is a fake. (From an article In The REPORTER, “America’s Leading Armenian Newspaper,” August 2, 1984.) Bravo with attempting to seek the truth, instead of pursuing the typically Armenian "My People, Right or Wrong" policy.
This is why I'm not too excited with what Dr. Kevork B. Bardakjian has come up with. An Internet search demonstrated he may be one of these scholars that lack credibility. He too closely associates himself with his Armenian identity, and his emotions probably supersede his professional responsibilities. The fact that his work on the Hitler quote comes out of the propagandistic Zoryan Institute certainly does not add to the integrity of his research. (And the fact that he works/worked at one of the main hubs of Armenian propaganda in the United States, the University of Michigan... the headquarters of Dennis Papazian and "Turkish scholars" who find jobs at the university level only because they support the Armenian point of view, also troubles me.)
Of course, the best proof of how good his research is will come out of the reading of his work, which I have not done. A clue to what lies at the root of his findings may be found at the ANI website: http://www.armenian-genocide.org/hitler.html; describing the text of Hitler's speech:
The text above is the English version of the German document handed to Louis P. Lochner in Berlin. It first appeared in Lochner's What About Germany? (New York