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BOOK REVIEW & REPUDITATION: Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination
Stefan Ihrig –Harvard Univ. Press
FOREWORD: I have read the subject book in detail and watched the presentation video. Given my age, the things I lived and read in my life, my international experience (importing machinery for workshops from many countries), and my affection and respect for all nations and faiths (in particular Jews, Armenians, Greeks and Germans as well as Asiatic and South and North American countries) I feel that I should share my views on this book which is also a prelude to a new book expected in January 1916 “Justifying Genocide, Germany and the Armenians From Bismark to Hitler”(Harvard University Press). As you may realize from my four books, over 400 essays, several interviews and video presentations, or the biographies, published on the internet, I am not a scholar or a professional historian. I am a reader who suspected that there were lies and charlatanism behind the genocide myth when it was introduced in 1960s. This was immediately after all “displaced persons” (ex Armenian Legion soldiers in Germany) were admitted into the USA with special quotas (perhaps as a result of Dashnakist skills). This gave birth in the 1970s in a wave of “revenging terror”! When I was an elementary school student and started reading newspapers for my mother to tell her what was going on, I thought that “now I know the world just like other grownup people”. Then, in high school, our literature teacher used to bring and read us passages about “stars, universe, space, light years” etc. which I could hardly grasp or understand. He told us “boys, now you are learning many things, remember than your knowledge is like a ball that grows bigger and bigger but never forget that what you don’t know is the outside the surface of the ball”; the more you learn, the more you realize how much you do not know. It took me a many decades to understand the importance of what our teacher had taught us, and now I have another live example. Most of the links in this review are mine; they are annexes and references to truths that were published years ago. I will be very happy if you would read them all as vital annexes! In this book review I will make frequent references to my two books, which have been available for a long time on the internet also open for downloads: “The Genocide of Truth”[GoT] (http://armenians1915.blogspot.com/2008/04/2429-new-e-book-genocide-of-truth-based.html) and “The Genocide of Truth Continues, but…” [GTC](http://armenians-1915.blogspot.com/2014/01/3432-free-e-bookgenocide-of-truth.html). (GoT p.662): The article dated Nov.14, 1915 of the “Reno Evening Gazette” (America and the Armenians) was a wise prophecy and stands valid today. The article ends with the following sentence: “If this country, therefore, does not want to appear foolish before the whole world, it will refuse to be duped by impossible tales and will let the Armenians severely alone.”
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