Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler

As Stefan Ihrig Shows In This First Comprehensive Study, Many Germans Sympathized With The Ottomans’ Longstanding Repression Of The Armenians And With The Turks’ Program Of Extermination During World War I. In The Nazis’ Version Of History, The Armenian Genocide Was Justifiable Because It Had Made Possible The Astonishing Rise Of The New Turkey. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part I. Armenian Blood Money -- Chapter 1. Beginnings Under Bismarck -- Chapter 2. Germany And The Armenian Horrors Of The 1890s -- Chapter 3. The Triumph Of German Anti- Armenianism -- Chapter 4. From Revolution To Abyss -- Part Ii. Under German Noses -- Chapter 5. Notions Of Total War -- Chapter 6. Dispatches From Erzurum -- Chapter 7. “interlude Of The Gods” -- Chapter 8. What Germany Could Have Known -- Part Iii. Debating Genocide -- Chapter 9. War Crimes, War Guilt, And Whitewashing -- Chapter 10. Assassination In Berlin, 1921 -- Chapter 11. Trial In Berlin -- Chapter 12. The Victory Of Justificationalism -- Part Iv. The Nazis And The Armenian Genocide -- Chapter 13. Racial Discourse And The Armenians -- Chapter 14. The Nazis’ New Turkey -- Chapter 15. No Smoking Gun -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index Stefan Ihrig. Mode Of Access: Internet Via World Wide Web. In English.