The Armenian Genocide: a personal account

Abstract

A German superman at Constantinople -- The "boss system" in the Ottoman Empire and how it proved useful to Germany -- "The personal representative of the Kaiser" : Wangenheim opposes the sale of American warships to Greece -- Germany mobilizes the Turkish army -- Wangenheim smuggles the Goeben and the Breslau through the Dardanelles -- Wangenheim tells the American ambassador how the Kaiser started the war -- Germany's plans for new territories, coaling stations, and indemnities -- A classic instance of German propaganda -- Germany closes the Dardanelles and so separates Russia from her Allies -- Turkey's abrogation of the capitulations : Enver living in a palace, with plenty of money and an imperial bride -- Germany forces Turkey into the war -- The Turks attempt to treat alien enemies decently, but the Germans insist on persecuting them -- The invasion of the Notre Dame de Sion school -- Wangenheim and the Bethlehem steel company : a "holy war" that was made in Germany -- Djemal, a troublesome Mark Antony : the first German attempt to get a German peace -- The Turks prepare to flee from Constantinople and establish a new capital in Asia minor : the allied fleet bombarding the Dardanelles -- Enver as the man who demonstrated "the vulnerability of the British fleet" : old-fashioned defenses of the Dardanelles -- The allied armada sails away, though on the brink of victory -- A fight for three thousand civilians -- More adventures of the foreign residents -- Bulgaria on the auction block -- The Turk reverts to the ancestral type -- The "revolution" at Van -- The murder of a nation -- Talaat tells why he deports the Armenians -- Enver Pasha discusses the Armenians -- "I shall do nothing for the Armenians," says the German ambassador -- Enver again moves for peace : farewell to the sultan and to Turkey -- Von Jagow, Zimmerman, and German-Americans.