Genocides begin in the wilderness, far from prying eyes – in Ottoman Turkey as well as Nazi Germany | The Independent

Genocides begin in the wilderness, far from prying eyes – in Ottoman Turkey as well as Nazi Germany | The Independent: Many believe the Jewish Holocaust was planned by the Nazis at a Berlin lakeside villa at Wannsee on 20 January 1942. Most historians still think the Armenian Holocaust was hatched up by the Ottoman Turks in Istanbul in 1915. Of course, we’ve long known that the mass slaughter of Europe’s Jews began the moment the Germans crossed the Polish border on 1 September 1939 – and