From kbuyukat@mail.coin.missouri.edu Tue Mar 4 11:14:17 1997 Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 14:15:09 -0600 (CST) From: Kaya Buyukataman To: ** ITUMD ** ISTANBUL TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI MEZUNLARI DERNEGI ULUSLARARASI KURULUSU Subject: FWD>PBS SERIES (fwd) The Great War Letter (fwd) ---- Begin Included Message ----- >From tuncer_kuzay@qmgate.anl.gov Mon Nov 11 14:31:17 1996 Date: 11 Nov 1996 13:26:13 U From: "Tuncer Kuzay" X-Attachments: "hitlers.tribune" (type: uuencode-datafork) ----- End Included Message ----- Mail*Link(r) SMTP FWD>PBS SERIES (fwd) Dear Friends: we have to get after the PBS on this issue. I am attaching below (in ASCII) a letter I wrote to the columnist Michael Kilan on his article in the Chicago Tribune (Friday 8th) regarding the unfortunate Turkish allegations in these series. I also sent to the same to the local PBS in Chicago requested that a disclaimer should be put on the Hitler quote and the Armenian genecide allegations. We have to keep the pressure. It is important to point out that starting the unique Jewish Holocaust with a fabricated "Hitler quote" is an insult to the Jews everywhere. Let us keep pressuring PBS. Sincerely, Tuncer M. Kuzay see my letter below: Subject: Time:13:44 OFFICE MEMO The Great War Letter Date:11/11/96 Here is my letter which was e-mailed to Chicago Trib and PBS. Remember that PBS is on the WEB. And they have e-mail on WEB. You can send a direct e-mail, fax etc. Sincerely., Tuncer Dr. Tunch M. Kuzay 1414 Middleburg Court Naperville, Illinois 60540 (630)717-0735 November 8, 1996 Mr. Michael Kilian Chicago Tribune Tribune Tower 435 N Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611 Dear Mr. Kilian: RE: "Voices from the trenches", Tempo, Tribune, Section 5, Nov. 8, 1996 I am an American citizen of Turkish stock. I am deeply disturbed by your article above which makes a strong connection between Hitler's abominable actions and the Turkish-Armenian conflict of the 1915-1918 era. Let me start by saying that "Hitler noted that the Armenian genocide had been blithely forgotten by the civilized world, and, emboldened, proceeded with the Holocaust" is based on a much tired forgery attributed to Hitler. Presumably Hitler gave a speech on August 22, 1939, before he embarked upon Poland's invasion, in which he had said: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians", according to a note given to an Associated Press bureau chief Loiuse Lochner by an unnamed informant. This statement was requoted again in London Times by an unnamed author in an article published, "Nazi Germany's Road To War", on November 24, 1945. This statement never appeared in the Nuremberg war criminal trials. There you are! That is as much depth that there is to this infamous quote! One should be very careful not to cast aspersion on the unique Jewish Holocaust starting off with a forgery like the Hitler's quotation. I am attaching a published study of this infamous quote attributed to Hitler by Dr. Heath Lowry, currently a professor of history at Princeton. His study " The Congress and Adolf Hitler on the Armenians" was published in Political Communication and Persuasion, Volume 3, Number 2, 1985. I also have in my possession a letter from Mr. Eli Wiesel himself written to me at the time he was with the Holocaust Museum Committee in Washington which states that "indeed this statement is doubtful". Before Mr. Wiesel came to this conclusion he had used this quotation himself three times in his public addresses. It is doing great disservice to the Jews everywhere to link the genesis of the unique Holocaust to a forged statement by Hitler. Likewise it is a great disservice to the Turks everywhere whose proud and humane heritage is being maliciously tarnished by the forgeries of organized Armenian propagandists who simply make a lifelong living out of such nefarious endeavor for an invented genocide. Sincerely, Tunch M. Kuzay, Ph.D CC: Chicago Tribune, Voice of the People Channel 11, Public TV ----- End Included Message -----