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ENGLISH EDITION OF "THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: EVIDENCE FROM THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHIVES" PUBLISHED
17:06 20.02.2014
The Zoryan Institute (Toronto), has published the English edition
of "The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office
Archives, 1915-1916". The book includes hundreds of telegrams, letters
and reports from German consular officials in the Ottoman Empire
to the Foreign Office in Berlin. The documents provide unequivocal
evidence of the genocidal intent of the Young Turks and the German
government's official acquiescence complicity, the Armenian Genocide
Museum Institute reports.
The exceptional importance of these documents is underscored by the
fact that only German diplomats and military officials were able to
send uncensored reports out of Turkey during World War I. Apart from
the Americans, who remained neutral in the war until April 6, 1917,
German diplomats and their informants from the missions or employees of
the Baghdad Railway were the most important non-American eyewitnesses
of the Genocide.
These documents, meant strictly for internal use and never intended
for publication, are remarkable for their candid revelations. Even as
allies of the Ottoman Empire, German officials still felt compelled
for moral and political reasons to report and complain about the
atrocities being committed against the Armenians by their Ottoman ally.
German journalist, historian and translator Wolfgang Gust, who compiled
and edited the book, tells that he was shocked when he knew that
Germany kept silence, while mass killings took place at one side of
Europe. Gust mentions: "This genocide is not planned or implemented
by Germans, but it is allowed by them. The imperial Germany was the
closest ally of Young Turks, and had a formal military alliance with
them. A question arises, was imperial Germany an effective power in
the Armenian Genocide, or perhaps, the author of that idea, as it is
claimed by many German historians".
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/02/20/english-edition-of-the-armenian-genocide-evidence-from-the-german-foreign-office-archives-1915-1916-published/
17:06 20.02.2014
The Zoryan Institute (Toronto), has published the English edition
of "The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office
Archives, 1915-1916". The book includes hundreds of telegrams, letters
and reports from German consular officials in the Ottoman Empire
to the Foreign Office in Berlin. The documents provide unequivocal
evidence of the genocidal intent of the Young Turks and the German
government's official acquiescence complicity, the Armenian Genocide
Museum Institute reports.
The exceptional importance of these documents is underscored by the
fact that only German diplomats and military officials were able to
send uncensored reports out of Turkey during World War I. Apart from
the Americans, who remained neutral in the war until April 6, 1917,
German diplomats and their informants from the missions or employees of
the Baghdad Railway were the most important non-American eyewitnesses
of the Genocide.
These documents, meant strictly for internal use and never intended
for publication, are remarkable for their candid revelations. Even as
allies of the Ottoman Empire, German officials still felt compelled
for moral and political reasons to report and complain about the
atrocities being committed against the Armenians by their Ottoman ally.
German journalist, historian and translator Wolfgang Gust, who compiled
and edited the book, tells that he was shocked when he knew that
Germany kept silence, while mass killings took place at one side of
Europe. Gust mentions: "This genocide is not planned or implemented
by Germans, but it is allowed by them. The imperial Germany was the
closest ally of Young Turks, and had a formal military alliance with
them. A question arises, was imperial Germany an effective power in
the Armenian Genocide, or perhaps, the author of that idea, as it is
claimed by many German historians".
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/02/20/english-edition-of-the-armenian-genocide-evidence-from-the-german-foreign-office-archives-1915-1916-published/