Jay Winter

Jay Winter

Jay Winter, PhD, the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University.

“In many ways, (the Armenian genocide) shows that the old idea that war is politics by other means is outdated in the 20th century. War is hatred by other means. And in this case, hatred means extermination. The First World War was the biggest war ever to date. The Second World War was bigger still. It’s not an accident in my mind that both of them were marked by genocide. This is the logic of the brutalization of total war.”

So states Jay Winter, PhD, the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, in the 1997 PBS special, “The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century,” which he co-created and served as chief historian.

Find out more about Jay Winter’s talk, “Memory and the Sacred: The Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide.”

Read: “Armenian Genocide of 1915: An Overview,” The New York Times
Watch: “Armenian Genocide,” ABC News