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    COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS CONCERNING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BEING KEPT IN
    FRENCH AND GERMAN ARCHIVES PUBLISHED IN YEREVAN


    YEREVAN, JUNE 10, NOYAN TAPAN. On the occasion of the 90th anniversary
    of the Armenian Genocide, the History Institute of the RA National
    Academy of Sciences published the works "Great Powers, Ottaman Empire
    and Armenians in French Archieves" by Artur Peylerian, a historian,
    and "Armenians' Genocide" by Walfgang Gust. The books were published
    at the "Hayastan" ("Armenia") publishing house. Artur Peylerian's work
    was first published in French in 1983, and this year the work has
    first been published in Armenian. The French Armenian historian found
    757 documents in French archives, classified them on 5 themes
    including main intents of Antanta states concerning eastern regions of
    Turkey, Armenians' displacemets and massacres, activities of the
    Armenian national delegation in France and Nubar Pashah, activities of
    detachments formed from Armenian in the Eastern Legion's structure and
    the Caucasian front. The work of Walfgang Gust, the editor of the
    German famous "Schpigel" journal is published in Russian. Official
    documents and materials from German archives which are being published
    for the first time are presented in the book. Stepan Stepanian, Doctor
    of historical sciences, Professor wrote in the preface to the book
    that "Turks living in Germany having become furious of Walfgang Gust's
    publications gathered then in front of the publishing house, demanded
    liquidation of the print run. But, Gust continued Lepsius' activity
    and found out that, in German archives, the number of documents
    concerning the Genocide surpasses 3000." W.Gust placed about 100
    documents in the armenocide.com Internet site opened by him.
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