Tag Archives: Shoah

Academic Consensus and the Armenian Genocide

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 April 2026

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The Nazis Who Fled to South America: Where, Who, and Why?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 October 2025

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HAMAS Planned for the Massacre, Torture, and Hostage-Taking on October 7 More Than a Year in Advance

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 October 2025

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Book Review: ‘Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955’

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 September 2024

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The Soviet Union Won the Second World War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 May 2024

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General Franco’s Intentions in the Second World War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2021

Writing recently about the first meeting between Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco at Hendaye on 23 October 1940, where the Führer tried to enlist Spain into the Axis, I concluded, drawing on Franco: The Man and His Nation by George Hills, a former BBC journalist and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society:

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Bernard Lewis and the Armenian Genocide Question

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on June 7, 2015

In 2012, Bernard Lewis published his memoirs, Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian, which included a chapter on the court case brought against him in France in the 1990s for refusing to agree that the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16 constitute genocide in the original sense of the term, as applied to the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry. The chapter is reproduced below.

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