A Shameful Act

This is a collection of brief excerpts from a recent lecture by Taner Akçam whose A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (2007) is a good place to start to understand why the Armenian Genocide organized by the Young Turks is the link that explains the conceptual/ideological as well as institutional transition from the late 19th century social darwinian European nationalisms to the Jewish Holocaust.