Armenians are not mentioned in the index of Eduardo Galeanos MIRRORS but are discussed on page 300, where we read: “The Ottoman Empire was falling to pieces and the Armenians paid the price. While the First World War thundered on, government-sponsored butchery did away with half of the Armenians in Turkey: homes ransacked and burned, columns of people fleeing without clothes, water, or anything else, women raped in town squares in broad daylight, mutilated bodies floating on the rivers. Whoever escaped thirst or hunger or cold died by the knife or the bullet. Or the gallows. Or by smoke: in the Syrian desert, Armenians driven out of Turkey were forced into caves and suffocated with smoke, in what foreshadowed the Nazi gas chambers to come. “Twenty years later, Hitler and his advisers were planning the invasion of Poland. Weighing the pros and cons, Hitler realized there would be protests, diplomatic outrage, loud complaints, but he was certain the noise would not last. And to prove his point, he asked: “Who remembers the Armenians?” #
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