ABSTRACT
Armenian and Jewish communities resorted to the practice of applications and petitions to domestic and international powers. The wholesale elimination of the Armenians, Jews, and other victim peoples also became a call for scholars in different scientific disciplines to undertake comparative research, with the primary objective to understand the motivations and preconditions of genocide. It has been stated frequently that one of the important common characteristics of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust is a long prehistory of victimization. The Armenians and Jews were ethnic and religious minorities, respectively, in the Ottoman Empire and in Europe. The behavior of protection payments and petitions during the Armenian and Jewish genocides contributed negligibly at best to the salvation of the victimized communities. Except for several cases of desperate self-defense and individual examples of flight, the Armenian and Jewish communities chose to conform.
