To which extent did the Armenian Genocide Inspired Hitler?

Adolf Hitler said:
Our strength is our quickness and our brutality. Genghis Khan had millions of women and children hunted down and killed, deliberately and with a gay heart. History sees in him only the great founder of States. What the weak Western European civilization alleges about me, does not matter. I have given the order—and will have everyone shot who utters but one word of criticism—that the aim of this war does not consist in reaching certain geographical lines, but in the enemies' physical elimination. Thus, for the time being only in the east, I put ready my Death's Head units, with the order to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of the Polish race or language. Only thus will we gain the living space that we need. Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?

So, if the people responsible for the Armnian Genocide was brought to justice, and such justice made public to the world, would that discourage the Nazi leaders from commiting the Holocaust?
 
Hopefully.

I hate answers like this.
what's the point in responding if you offer nothing of value? :noexpression:

Any way to the OP
I think it wouldn't - Hitler, as illustrated in the disdainful verbiage he used when describing Western European sentiments, wouldn't care about what courts or justice system could do to him post his own genocidal war, if say the Armenian genocide perpetrators were brought to justice by the League of Nations at the conclusion of theirs.
He'd most like it chuck it up to soft western (jewish in his case im sure) sentiments on non-racially based morality and thus ignore as a by product of some zionist conspiracy and likewise ignore the risks.

Plus he'd view the cyanide capsule in his tooth as his "get out of jail" card if he got caught anyway
 
People did still talk about the Armenian Genocide. Hitler knew about it. He must have been talking about how the world order was not trying to help surviving Armenians, or prosecute those who carried out the killing; he was saying this would be true if there were any survivors of the Nazi genocides.
 
The people responsible for the Armenian genocide did not, strictly speaking, escape justice - they were publicly assassinated by the Armenian Dashnaks ("Operation Nemesis"). Along with some people who can be considered only partially responsible, or not responsible at all. Like Khan-Khoyski and Djemal Pasha.

So while the Armenian genocide clearly played a major role in shaping Hitler's plans and ideology...if he was not discouraged by the actual murder of its ringleaders, it's unlikely he would be discouraged by some court's verdict.
 
The people responsible for the Armenian genocide did not, strictly speaking, escape justice - they were publicly assassinated by the Armenian Dashnaks ("Operation Nemesis"). Along with some people who can be considered only partially responsible, or not responsible at all. Like Khan-Khoyski and Djemal Pasha.

So while the Armenian genocide clearly played a major role in shaping Hitler's plans and ideology...if he was not discouraged by the actual murder of its ringleaders, it's unlikely he would be discouraged by some court's verdict.

That does sound like escaping justice to me. They weren't prosecuted by Turkey?

Who are those who are only partially responsible? Like soldiers who were following orders?
 
That does sound like escaping justice to me. They weren't prosecuted by Turkey?

They were prosecuted by the post-war Ottoman government...some people were sentenced to death, but only a tiny minority actually faced any kind of punishment. With the establishment of republican Turkey the whole matter was dropped.
Who are those who are only partially responsible? Like soldiers who were following orders?

For example, Djemal Pasha was a high-ranking Ottoman official, but he is believed to have opposed the genocidal policy of the central government, and actually took steps to protect Armenians under his jurisdiction. Allegedly, he even planned a coup to save the remaining Armenians and take the Ottoman Empire out of the war, but the plan broke down because France didn't agree to it.
 
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