Germany, Turkey, and Armenia: A Selection of Documentary Evidence Relating to the Armenian Atrocities from German and other SourcesAnonymous
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Germany, Turkey, and Armenia: A Selection of Documentary Evidence Relating to the Armenian Atrocities from German and other Sources
Anonymous
Armenian question; World War, 1914-1918 -- Armenia
One night we slept in an Armenian house where the women had just
heard that the men of the family had been condemned to death. It was
frightful to hear their cries of anguish. "Cannot your Emperor help
us?" they cried. The gendarme saw the despair on our faces, and said:
"Their crying bothers you; I will forbid them to cry." However,
he let himself be mollified. He had taken particular pleasure in
pointing out to us all the horrors that we encountered, and he said to
young Hassan: "First we kill the Armenians, then the Greeks, then the
Kurds." He would certainly have been delighted to add: "And then the
foreigners!" Our Greek driver was the victim of a still more ghastly
joke: "Look, down there in the ditch; there are Greeks there too!"
At last we reached Sivas. We had to wait an hour in front of the
Government Building before the examination of our papers was completed
and we were given permission to go to the Americans. There, too,
all was trouble and sorrow.
On the 1st July we left Sivas, and reached Kaisaria on the 4th. We had
been given permission to go to Talas, after depositing our baggage
at the Jesuit School; but when we wanted to go on from Kaisaria,
we were refused leave and taken back to the Jesuit School, where
a gendarme was posted in front of our door. However, the American
Missionaries succeeded in getting us set at liberty.
We then returned to Talas, where we passed several days full of
commotion, for there, as well as at Kaisaria, there were many arrests
being made. The poor Armenians never knew what the morrow would
bring, and then came the terrifying news that all Armenians had been
cleared out of Sivas. What happened there and in the villages of the
surrounding districts will be reported by the American Mission.
When we discovered that they meant to keep us there--for they had
prevented us from joining the Austrians for the journey--we telegraphed
to the German Embassy, and so obtained permission to start. There is
nothing to tell about this part of our journey, except that the locusts
had in places destroyed all the fruit and vegetables, so that the Turks
are already beginning to have some experience of the Divine punishment.
5. THE TOWN OF H.
Statement made by Miss DA., a Danish Lady in the Service of the
German Red Cross at H., to Mr. DB. at Basle, and communicated by
Mr. DB. to Lord Bryce.
Sister DA. left the German Red Cross Mission at H. in April, 1916,
travelling through Ourfa to Aleppo, and thence by road and railway
across Anatolia to Constantinople. Mr. DB. met her at Basle, on her
way from Constantinople to Denmark, in the house of a mutual friend.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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