Justifying Genocide - Germany and the Armenians From Bismarck to Hitler

Informationen zum Autor Stefan Ihrig is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Stefan Ihrig, Ihrig Stefan
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780674504790
• ISBN: 978-0-674-50479-0
• No. of pages: 446
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 243 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Armenia, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing