Genocide and Propaganda

Paul R. Bartrop is s a multi-award-winning scholar of the Holocaust and genocide, and Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. He is also an Honorary Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and formerly Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.

• Introduction1. Native Americans1.1 Editorials from the Rocky Mountain News on the Sand Creek Massacre1.2 “Civilizing” the Indians, 18692. Indigenous Australians2.1 The Australian Aborigines in Colonial Queensland2.2 The Future Aboriginal Population in Western Australia3. Namibia3.1 General Lothar von Trotha, Officer Commanding German Military Forces4. Armenia4.1 Ziya Gökalp on Turkish Nationalism, 19114.2 The Ten Commandments of the Committee of Union and Progress4.3 Dr. Mehmet Nazim to Central Committee of Committee of Union and Progress, February 19154.4 Orders from Talaat Pasha, March 1915-January 19164.5 Enver Bey Explains the Situation to US Ambassador Morgenthau, 19154.6 Dr. Mehmed Reshid’s Stance Regarding the Armenians4.7 Joint Allied Declaration Condemning Turkish Genocide of Armenians, May 24, 19154.8 Ottoman Government Proclamation Ordering the Deportation of the Armenians, February 5, 19164.9 “Yesterday a Fief, To-day Our Country,” Editorial in Hilal, April 4, 19165. The Holodomor5.1 Mykola Skrypnyk, All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, July 11, 19325.2 Lazar Kaganovich to the North Caucasus Territorial Committee of the AUCP(B), November 21-23, 19325.3 Resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine, December 6, 19325.4 Joseph Stalin, “On Work in the Countryside,” January 11, 19335.5 Walter Duranty, “Russians Hungry, but Not Starving,” New York Times, March 31, 19345.6 Boris Skvirsky, Counsellor of the Embassy of the USSR, to US Congressman Herman P. Kopplemann, February 3, 19346. The Holocaust6.1 Program of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, February 24, 19206.2 Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 19236.3 Speech by Joseph Goebbels on Propaganda, September 19346.4 Report on Anti-Jewish Propaganda, August 6, 19356.5 “The Jewish Question and School Instruction,” 19376.6 Ritual Murder, article in Der Stürmer, April 19376.7 Der SA-Mann, Compilation of Nazi Antisemitic Articles, 1935-19386.8 “The Poisonous Mushroom,” 19386.9 Adolf Hitler Warns the Jews of Europe, January 30, 19396.10 Hans Frank Addresses his Cabinet, Kraków, December 16, 19416.11 SS Pamphlet, “The Subhuman”6.12 On Adolf Hitler’s Promise to Free the World of the Jews, January 28, 19437. Biafra7.1 British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Report, 19687.2 United States NSC Interdepartmental Group for Africa: Background Paper on Nigeria/Biafra, February 10, 19698. Cambodia8.1 The Minister of Propaganda on the Departure of Foreigners, May 9, 19758.2 Kampuchean People’s Representative Assembly, April 13, 19768.3 Pol Pot, Speech to the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, September 27, 19778.4 Nuon Chea, Statement to the Communist Workers’ Party of Denmark, July 19788.5 Regulations Concerning Detainees at S-21 Prison, Phnom Penh8.6 Khmer Rouge National Anthem, The Dazzling Victory of 17 April (extracts)8.7 Collection of Khmer Rouge Propaganda Slogans9. Guatemala9.1 President Efraín Ríos Mont: A “War without Limits,” June 30, 198210. Bosnia-Herzegovina10.1 Serbian President Slobodan Miloševic, June 28, 198910.2 Fr. Savo Kneževic, What the Muslims Want, January 15, 199311. Rwanda11.1 The Ten Commandments of the Hutu, Kangura, no. 6, December 199011.2 Simon Bikindi, “I Hate the Hutus,” 199211.3 Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza on Hutu and Tutsi Identity, December 12, 199311.4 Kantano Habimana on the War against the Rebels, April 22, 199411.5 Valérie Bemeriki, on Why the War is Happening, May 17, 199411.6 Kantano Habimana: “We are sure of the victory,” May 28, 1994Bibliography IndexAbout the Author

In an era in which “it is often difficult for some people to identify what is being projected as truth, and what is propaganda,” this book is an important addition to academic and high-school library collections.