- Title
- Botschafter Wangenheim und das jungtürkische Komitee: halbherzige friedenspolitik, jähe kriegshoffnung und moralischer defätismus (1913-1915)
- Creator
- Kieser, Hans-Lukas
- Relation
- Das Deutsche Reich und der Völkermord an den Armeniern p. 131-148
- Publisher
- Wallstein Verlag
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- A complex, ambivalent and contradictory picture of a time of transition. During the First World War, the Ottoman and German empires were allies of the war. With the beginning of the persecution of the Armenians, which began in the spring of 1915, initiated by widespread deportations and massacres, into a genocide, the German Reich was inevitably involved in the events. This affected both the military, the embassy, consular personnel and other Germans on the ground as well as the national political and military centers of power in the German Reich. How far did the entanglement go? Was there a German share of responsibility for this genocide? Was there any significant contradiction? The authors show how civilian populations increasingly became the target of military and radical demographic policies. There were advocates and opponents. In summary, a moral obligation can be diagnosed by a war-related "realpolitik" that did not remain without consequences for the German post-war mentality.
- Subject
- Ambassador Wangenheim; Young Turk Committee; German Reich; Armenians; Armenia; World War One; First World War; Ottoman Empire; German Empire
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1396022
- Identifier
- uon:33977
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783835318977
- Language
- eng
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