Over and out

Submitted by mam (United States), Jun 15, 2006 at 11:45

What I said was that in Bardakjian's book the authenticity is well-documented. All you had to offer against Bardakjian was that he is Armenian.

You are asking me to believe that Lochner or the German officer who provided him with the text fabricated the Armenian quote, if I understand correctly. I wish to know why that sounds even remotely plausible. Is it more likely that Hitler, who was well aware of the extermination of the Armenians, some of his associates having been present in Anatolia in 1915, would use the relative impunity with which the crime was committed to justify his own plans for Poland or that a German general or an AP writer would make up the quote, allegedly to make Hitler look bad? Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor?

I will leave it to others to work out which scenario they think more likely.

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