armenians serving in the wehrmacht and the ss in article amazon cs duke edu wiener duke cs duke edu eduard wiener writes i can see how little taste you actually have in the cheap shot you took at me when i did nothing more than translate kozovski s insulting reference to milan pavlovic c mon you still haven t corrected yourself wieneramus in april hitler was preparing for the invasion of the caucasus a number of nazi armenian leaders began submitting plans to german officials in spring and summer one of them was souren begzadian paikhar son of a former ambassador of the armenian republic in baku paikhar wrote a letter to hitler asking for german support to his armenian national socialist movement hossank and suggesting the creation of an armenian ss formation in order to educate the youth of liberated armenia according to the spirit of the nazi ideas he wanted to unite the armenians of the already occupied territories of the ussr in his movement and with them conquer historic turkish homeland paikhar was confined to serving the nazis in goebbels propaganda ministry as a speaker for armenian and french language radio broadcastings the armenian language broadcastings were produced by yet another nazi armenian viguen chanth patrick von zur muhlen muehlen p enno meyer a j berkian zwischen rhein und arax jahre deutsch armenische beziehungen heinz holzberg verlag oldenburg pp and the establishment of armenian units in the german army was favored by general dro the butcher he played an important role in the establishment of the armenian legions without assuming any official position his views were represented by his men in the respective organs an interesting meeting took place between dro and reichsfuehrer ss heinrich himmler toward the end of dro discussed matters of collaboration with himmler and after a long conversation asked if he could visit pow camp close to berlin himmler provided dro with his private car a minor problem was that some of the soviet nationals were not aryans but subhumans according to the official nazi philosophy as such they were subject to german racism however armenians were the least threatened and indeed most privileged in august armenians had been recognized as aryans by the bureau of racial investigation in the ministry for domestic affairs meyer berkian ibid pp need i go on serdar argic we closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the turks and then proceeded in the work of extermination ohanus appressian in soviet armenia today there no longer exists a single turkish soul sahak melkonian
