What are you reading?

[Federate]

Re: What are you reading?

great book, highly recommend to everybody!

When you're done with that, try Norman Finkelstein's Holocaust Industry.

[Mos]

Re: What are you reading?

When you're done with that, try Norman Finkelstein's Holocaust Industry.

Hmm, okay, will look it up. What's it about in nutshell??

[Federate]

Re: What are you reading?

Hmm, okay, will look it up. What's it about in nutshell??

Great info here, there's even a section on the Armenian Genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_Industry

Norman Finkelstein is a J3w against Israeli policies. Check his debates on YouTube, they are fascinating. Highly intelligent man.

[Mos]

Re: What are you reading?

Great info here, there's even a section on the Armenian Genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_Industry

Norman Finkelstein is a J3w against Israeli policies. Check his debates on YouTube, they are fascinating. Highly intelligent man.

interesting, will further check it out. But I digressed to Foxman's page, and just read this,

He went on to state, "we continue to firmly believe that a Congressional Resolution on such matters is a counterproductive diversion and will not foster reconciliation between Turks and Armenians. We will not hesitate to apply the term 'genocide' in the future." Foxman additionally sent a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressing regret over the difficulty his position caused for the government of Turkey: "We had no intention to put the Turkish people or its leaders in a difficult position."

Stupid idiot, and this guy is effectively more powerful than president of US.

[Federate]

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interesting, will further check it out. But I digressed to Foxman's page, and just read this,

Stupid idiot, and this guy is effectively more powerful than president of US.

When I hear Abraham Foxman's name, surprisingly (or perhaps not) the first animal that comes to my mind is not a fox but a snake.

[Odar]

Re: What are you reading?

Finished Chalabian's book

Considering that all I knew about Dro was, well, that he was one of the most famous freedom fighters during WW1 and shortly afterwards, and that in WW2 he sided with Nazi Germany, I've found this book a great reading as for both the historical data and the portraiting of the man. Of course I can't be sure it's all true what the author writes - especially about Dro's motivations for his collaboration with the Nazis - since I haven't read any other book on the subject, but as a primer, I really enjoyed it.

By the way, does anybody know whether "Andraniki Zhamanake" by H. Simonyan will ever be translated in English? I've read that this is supposed to be a "warts-and-all" bio - my favourites - and I'd really like to read it... if possible before I'm 80 (that is, in case I have to learn Armenian)

[Federate]

Re: What are you reading?

Finished Chalabian's book

Considering that all I knew about Dro was, well, that he was one of the most famous freedom fighters during WW1 and shortly afterwards, and that in WW2 he sided with Nazi Germany, I've found this book a great reading as for both the historical data and the portraiting of the man. Of course I can't be sure it's all true what the author writes - especially about Dro's motivations for his collaboration with the Nazis - since I haven't read any other book on the subject, but as a primer, I really enjoyed it.

He was not the only one who joined the Wehrmacht as Njdeh and many other Armenians joined too and I see nothing wrong with that. His actions saved many Soviet-Armenian prisoners and was the right course to take in case Germany won the war.

[Odar]

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I know, and it appears that unlike Nzhdeh - at least that's what I get from the book - he had little sympathies for the Nazist ideology. Still it bothers me as resistance to Nazifascism is one of the main pillars of the foundation of Italian republic. I realize though that when you find yourself crushed between 2 tyrannies, all you can do is to opt for what atm seems to be the lesser evil.

Is there any book in English (or French, or German) about the activities of the Armenian "volunteers", especially concerning their anti-partisan activities (some units operated in northern Italy as well, together with the Turkmens, Kazakhs, and Cossacks)? I've found stuff in Italian about the Muslim and Cossack units - there's also a novel about the mass suicide of the latter, when they realized they were being handed over to the Red Army - but nothing about the Armenians.

[KanadaHye]

Re: What are you reading?

He was not the only one who joined the Wehrmacht as Njdeh and many other Armenians joined too and I see nothing wrong with that. His actions saved many Soviet-Armenian prisoners and was the right course to take in case Germany won the war.

Technically Germany did win since its wealth was successfully transferred out of the country prior to the war. Look how quickly Europe was rebuilt after WW2. Very similar to what is happening to America today (wealth doesn't just disappear). German engineering still rules the Western world. There are only 3 ways to create wealth: farm it, mine it or manufacture it. Germany I believe, is still the leader in manufacturing technology.

[MrHyeSev]

Re: What are you reading?

Autobiography of David Robinson.