In his book '' What about Germany ? '' , Lochner offered the following English translation of the document then in his possession : The key area of contention regarding the Armenian quote is a reference to the Armenian Genocide , referencing the ethnic extermination of Armenians during World War I in the Ottoman Empire , where an estimated one to one-and-a-half million ethnic Armenians were killed by Turks . The quote is now inscribed on one of the walls of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington , D.C . In 2009 the International Association of Genocide Scholars used the quote in a letter to Barack Obama related to the Armenian Genocide recognition . When the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal got hold of the first note of the speech , named " L-3 " , they rejected its use as evidence because the American newspaperman that provided the document refused to disclose the source
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Hitler's Obersalzberg Speech