Ambassador Morgenthau's Story: A Personal Account of the Armenian GenocideBy the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire was beginning to dissolve. Upon seeing this weakness, Germany set its own plans into action in the capital of Constantinople-to bring the vast Turkish Empire under its control. In this book, American statesman HENRY MORGENTHAU SR. (1856-1946) details how Turkey fell under the influence of Germany and how this led to the Armenian Genocide. In a trial run of the extermination of the Jews, the Germans orchestrated the murder and exile of the Armenians from Turkey, with "Turkey for the Turks" as a rallying cry. The similarities to the Holocaust are chilling.Anyone intrigued by the history and politics of Eastern Europe will find Morgenthau's memoir enlightening. And scholars will gain great insight from reading this first-hand account of an often forgotten tragedy. |
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... says the German Ambassador 250 XXVIII Enver again moves for peace . Farewell to the Sultan and to Turkey 264 XXIX Von Jagow , Zimmerman , and German - Americans 272 B PREFACE y this time the American people have probably.
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... marched upon Constan- tinople , had deposed the bloody Sultan , Abdul Hamid , and had estab- lished a constitutional system . Turkey , these glowing newspaper stories told us , had become a democracy , with a 8 AMBASSADOR MORGENTHAU'S ...
... marched upon Constan- tinople , had deposed the bloody Sultan , Abdul Hamid , and had estab- lished a constitutional system . Turkey , these glowing newspaper stories told us , had become a democracy , with a 8 AMBASSADOR MORGENTHAU'S ...
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... Sultan's favourite methods of quieting opposition . Instead of having one Abdul Hamid , Turkey now discovered that ... Sultan particularly facilitated the ascendancy of this committee . We must remember that Mohammed V was not only ...
... Sultan's favourite methods of quieting opposition . Instead of having one Abdul Hamid , Turkey now discovered that ... Sultan particularly facilitated the ascendancy of this committee . We must remember that Mohammed V was not only ...
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... Sultan had not greatly improved his personal position . The Committee of Union and Progress ruled him precisely as they ruled all the rest of Turkey - by intimidation . Indeed they had already given him a sample of their power , for the ...
... Sultan had not greatly improved his personal position . The Committee of Union and Progress ruled him precisely as they ruled all the rest of Turkey - by intimidation . Indeed they had already given him a sample of their power , for the ...
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... Sultan attended in state ; he sat under a beautifully decorated tent where he held a little court ; and the Khedive of Egypt , the Crown Prince of Turkey , the princes of the im- perial blood and the entire Cabinet were also on hand ...
... Sultan attended in state ; he sat under a beautifully decorated tent where he held a little court ; and the Khedive of Egypt , the Crown Prince of Turkey , the princes of the im- perial blood and the entire Cabinet were also on hand ...
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