"Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?" - Adolf Hitler
Hitlter said this before the invasion of Poland by the German army in 1939 in a speech to his commanding officers.
The Armenian Genocide is of great importance to modern world history because it provided an example of genocide and the systematic killing of a group of people. The genocide may have had an effect on a huge, horrible piece of world history, the Holocaust. After observing the Armenian genocide, Hitler saw that the Turkish people got away with the killing of 1.5 million people. This gave Hitler reassurance in continuing the extermination of the Jews.
In this instance, the media could have had an effect on history. If the Turkish media had not covered up the genocide so rigourously, the purpotrators of the Armenian genocide might have been punish and swayed Hitlers decision with carrying out the Holocaust.
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