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Enver Pasha: In reply to US Ambassador Morgenthau who was deploring the massacres against Armenians and attributing them to irresponsible subalterns and underlings in the distant provinces, Enver's reply was...You are greatly mistaken. We have this country absolutely under our control. I have no desire to shift the blame onto our underlings and I am entirely willing to accept the responsibility myself for everything that has taken place.
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Talat Pasha:In a conversation with Dr. Mordtmann of the German Embassy in June 1915...Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate (grundlich aufzaumen) its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.
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Theodore Roosevelt:May 11, 1918, letter to Cleveland Hoadley Dodge. . . the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it . . . the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.
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Adolf Hitler:While persuading his associates that a Jewish holocaust would be tolerated by the west stated...Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
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Prince Abdul Mecid:Heir-Apparent to the Ottoman Throne, during an interview...I refer to those awful massacres. They are the greatest stain that has ever disgraced our nation and race. They were entirely the work of Talat and Enver. I heard some days before they began that they were intended. I went to Istanbul and insisted on seeing Enver. I asked him if it was true that they intended to recommence the massacres which had been our shame and disgrace under Abdul Hamid. The only reply I could get from him was: 'It is decided. It is the program.'
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Grand Vezir Damad Ferid Pasha:Equivalent rank in the US would be head of the cabinet. He described the treatment of the Armenians as...A crime that drew the revulsion of the entire humankind. Return Home |