History, Department of

 

Date of this Version

7-2016

Citation

Published in War in History 23:3 (July 2016), pp 387–389. doi 10.1177/0968344516637161c

Comments

Copyright © 2016 SAGE Publications. Used by permission.

Abstract

This edited volume should be considered as an significant contribution to the history of the Armenian Genocide. Gust has rendered an important service to scholarship by reviving for the first time in English the voices of the German diplomats and their informants who became eyewitnesses to one of the first genocides of the twentieth century. Almost all of the German observers, be they diplomats or missionaries from the period, agreed on the fact that what happened to the Armenians was an act of genocide. Now that Gust has furnished historians with a plethora of vital documents, it is the task of historians to analyse these documents and interpret the different dimensions of the Armenian Genocide in general and the German policy during the First World War in particular.

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