Das Deutsche Reich und der Völkermord an den Armeniern = The German Reich and the Armenian Genocide

Edited by Rolf Hosfeld and Christin Pschichholz

A complex, ambivalent and contradictory picture of a time of transition.

During the First World War, the Ottoman and German Empires were war allies. With the beginning of the Armenian persecutions, which led to genocide in the spring of 1915, initiated by widespread deportations and massacres, the German Reich was inevitably involved in the events. This affected the military, the embassy, consular staff and other Germans on the ground as well as the national political and military centres of power in the German Reich. How far did the entanglement go? Was there any German responsibility for this genocide? Was there any notable contradiction?
The authors show how civilian populations increasingly became the target of military and radical population policy measures. There were supporters and opponents. In summary, a moral-free obligation can be diagnosed by a war-related "realpolitik" that was not without consequences for the German post-war mentality.

With contributions by Aschot Hayruni, Rolf Hosfeld, Isabell V. Hull, Stefan Ihrig, Hilmar Kaiser, Hans-Lukas Kieser, Carl Alexander Krethlow, Mark Levene, Christin Pschichholz, Thomas Schmutz and Ronald Gregor Suny, among others.

318 pp., 10 ills., paperback, 14 x 22.2 cm
ISBN 978-3-8353-1897-7