Holocaust And Armenian Genocide

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The Armenian people and the Jewish people were both involved in a genocide based on prejudice, with the intent to completely wipe out their race. The Nazi’s and The Turkish people were responsible for the Genocide of these two groups. The Nazis carried out one of the most notorious crimes in history, The Holocaust. They killed countless minorities but specifically targeted the Jewish. During World War 1, The Ottoman Empire was having a lot of turmoil between the two main ethnicities in the country, The Turks and The Armenians. The Turks felt as though the Armenians may be a threat and made their country weaker, so they decided to simply eradicate all Armenians from the land. It was the the Nazi and Armenian governments planned and carried out

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