Every historical event is unique, so there's no point arguing over the
exclusivity or otherwise of the Jewish Holocaust. More relevant, and
useful, is to discuss what events might have 'inspired' its
perpetrators, and the Armenian genocide was certainly one of them.

As a commenter above points out, Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word
'genocide' and helped codify the first laws on war crimes, was deeply
affected by the genocide of the Armenians. In 1939 as the Nazi
leadership drew up plans for the extermination of the Jews, Hitler
asked, 'Who now remembers the Armenians?' The Armenians, like the Jews
of eastern Europe, were exterminated. The Ottoman Turks only lacked the
Nazis' technology, and simply drove hundreds of thousands of people
into the desert where they died of starvation.

Thanks to Khatchig for his informative and thoughtful posts. This
thread of Armenian-Jewish discussion is important, especially when Jews
are being asked to write a blank cheque for Turkey because it has
diplomatic relations with Israel.

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