The War Of The World: History's Age Of Hatred - Plot & Excerpts
‘ Ta’alim el aleman[the teaching of the Germans]’, he reported, was ‘the simple Turk’s explanation to everyone who asks him about the originators of these measures [against the Armenians]’. He also noted the ‘ominous silence’ on the part of German officers when the subject of the Armenians was raised. This tallies with the case of aGerman officer who reprimanded a subordinate for putting his signature on a document relating to the Armenian deportations. The American consul in Aleppo certainly regarded the Germans as having ‘condoned… the extermination of the Armenian race’. Indeed, the Austrian consul in Trebizond believed that the Germans had given the ‘first encouragement’ for the ‘neutralization’ (Unschädlichmachung) of the Armenians, but added that they had envisaged less drastic means (presumably forced conversion). His counterpart in Adrianople reported that German officers had been present during deportations of Armenians ‘and had not lifted a finger to prevent them’.
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