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THE INDEPENDENT PUBLISHES PHOTO LINKING GERMANS TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 22, 2012 - 13:23 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The British newspaper The Independent has published
a photograph linking Germans to the Armenian Genocide.
The photograph never published before was apparently taken in the
summer of 1915. Human skulls are scattered over the earth. They are all
that remain of a handful of Armenians slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks
during the First World War. Behind the skulls, posing for the camera,
are three Turkish officers in tall, soft hats and a man, on the far
right, who is dressed in Kurdish clothes. But the two other men are
Germans, both dressed in the military flat caps, belts and tunics of
the Kaiserreichsheer, the Imperial German Army. It is an atrocity
snapshot just like those pictures the Nazis took of their soldiers
posing before Jewish Holocaust victims a quarter of a century later.
"Did the Germans participate in the mass killing of Christian Armenians
in 1915? This is not the first photograph of its kind; yet hitherto
the Germans have been largely absolved of crimes against humanity
during the first holocaust of the 20th century. German diplomats in
Turkish provinces during the First World War recorded the forced
deportations and mass killing of a million and a half Armenian
civilians with both horror and denunciation of the Ottoman Turks,
calling the Turkish militia-killers "scum". German parliamentarians
condemned the slaughter in the Reichstag," The Independent reported.
Citing the memories of Germans on the Armenian Genocide, including
those who tried to make the whole world aware of the atrocities
committed by the Turks, the paper concludes, "We may never know,
however, the identity of the two officers standing so nonchalantly
beside the skulls of Armenian victims."
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 22, 2012 - 13:23 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The British newspaper The Independent has published
a photograph linking Germans to the Armenian Genocide.
The photograph never published before was apparently taken in the
summer of 1915. Human skulls are scattered over the earth. They are all
that remain of a handful of Armenians slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks
during the First World War. Behind the skulls, posing for the camera,
are three Turkish officers in tall, soft hats and a man, on the far
right, who is dressed in Kurdish clothes. But the two other men are
Germans, both dressed in the military flat caps, belts and tunics of
the Kaiserreichsheer, the Imperial German Army. It is an atrocity
snapshot just like those pictures the Nazis took of their soldiers
posing before Jewish Holocaust victims a quarter of a century later.
"Did the Germans participate in the mass killing of Christian Armenians
in 1915? This is not the first photograph of its kind; yet hitherto
the Germans have been largely absolved of crimes against humanity
during the first holocaust of the 20th century. German diplomats in
Turkish provinces during the First World War recorded the forced
deportations and mass killing of a million and a half Armenian
civilians with both horror and denunciation of the Ottoman Turks,
calling the Turkish militia-killers "scum". German parliamentarians
condemned the slaughter in the Reichstag," The Independent reported.
Citing the memories of Germans on the Armenian Genocide, including
those who tried to make the whole world aware of the atrocities
committed by the Turks, the paper concludes, "We may never know,
however, the identity of the two officers standing so nonchalantly
beside the skulls of Armenian victims."