surfing the berlin political blogsphere i found an review an the book “Die Morgenthau Legende” by Bernd Greiner. To give a short english excerpt: Morgenthau is one of the most hated political actuers especially in germany. Most people know him from Goeppels antisemitic propaganda, who said, he wanted to make germany to an potatoes field in order to take revange on germany. In fact, Morgenthaus post-war policy was based on the four D`s in order to prevent germany to attack other countries again: demilitarisation, denazifikation, decartelization and the installation of democracy.
But what is mostly unknown, is the early engagement of Morgenthau in order to stop germanies war and the shoa. he was one of the most important interceder at first for the american embargo on germany, then to let enter jewish refugees into amerika and for the dicission to join the alliance to fight germany.
And how is all of this connected to the massacre on about one million arminians? Morgenthau`s father was the US-embassador in the osman empire at that time. He got reports on what happened to the armenians and tried to organize international intervention on this, but wasn`t successfull at all, because no western power had an interest on it. Morgenthau was influenced by this experience, when he pushed american policy to intervene in Europe, and he did before Pearl Harbour.
So far about Morgenthau. Now a want to say something about to compare the masscre on arminians and the shoa. Mostly it`s said, one shouldn`t compare the shoa to anything, because the shoa is singular. I do not want to question that, for sure it`s not comparable in the grade of organisation, the involvement of masses and the number of victims. But I want to diskuss, wether it`s possible to draw parallels first on the images of jewish and arminian, for example the image of not be able to live settled, on the role of antisemitism and antiarminianism for the construction of german and turkish identity and last, not least how the germans and turkish are dealing with this crime in nower times. Some statement I haerd was about, arminians would use, would invent the massacre in order to get compensations. That sounds quite a bit like what I know as secondary antisemitism from germany.
When I ask all this stuff, it`s not rethorical. I`m really unsure. I would really appriciate discussion and hints for further information. Did anyone read Dan Diner on this issue?