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Klaus Bloemker (not verified) says:
Wasn't there also opposition to the Armenian genocide being included in the Holocaust museum? Turkey is in a way a friend of Israel so Israel and its US lobby didn't want to embarrass Turkey with the Armenian question.
Generally speaking, I always found the very establishment of a "United States Holocaust Museum" strange (isn't that the official name?), because both the Armenian and the Jewish and Gypsy genocides were crimes of other nations.
Wasn't there also opposition to the Armenian genocide being included in the Holocaust museum? Turkey is in a way a friend of Israel so Israel and its US lobby didn't want to embarrass Turkey with the Armenian question.
Generally speaking, I always found the very establishment of a "United States Holocaust Museum" strange (isn't that the official name?), because both the Armenian and the Jewish and Gypsy genocides were crimes of other nations.
Klaus
Frankfurt, Germany