Justifying genocide : Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler / Stefan Ihrig
"The Armenian Genocide and the Nazi Holocaust are often thought to be separated by a large distance in time and space. But Stefan Ihrig shows that they were much more connected than previously thought. Bismarck and then Wilhelm II staked their foreign policy on close relations with a stable Ott...
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| Main Authors: | Ihrig, Stefan (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016 |
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Rezension |
| Table of Contents |
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| Prologue: Franz Werfel Meets Adolf HitlerIntroduction: Questions of Genocide? |
| Part I. Armenian Blood Money |
| 1. Beginnings under Bismarck |
| 2. Germany and the Armenian Horrors of the 1890s |
| 3. The Triumph of German Anti-Armenianism |
| 4. From Revolution to Abyss |
| Part II. Under German Noses |
| 5. Notions of Total War |
| 6. Dispatches from Erzurum |
| 7. "Interlude of the Gods" |
| 8. What Germany Could Have Known |
| Part III. Debating Genocide |
| 9. War Crimes, War Guilt, and Whitewashing |
| 10. Assassination in Berlin, 1921 |
| 11. Trial in Berlin |
| 12. The Victory of Justificationalism |
| Part IV. The Nazis and the Armenian Genocide |
| 13. Racial Discourse and the Armenians |
| 14. The Nazis' New Turkey |
| 15. No Smoking Gun |
| Epilogue: Armenian Writings on the Wall. |
