GOMIDAS INSTITUTE RELEASES NEW BOOK ON GERMAN INVOLVEMENT IN ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE
LONDON, January 19 (Noyan Tapan). The “Gomidas” Institute of London
released a anew book on the German involvement in the 1915 Armenian
Genocide in the “Garod House” publishing house. The author of the book
entitled “Eberhard Count Wolffskeel Von Reichenberg, Zeitoun, Mousa
Dagh, Ourfa: Letters on the Armenian Genocide” is Dr. Hilmar Kaiser, a
German historian specializing in late Ottoman social and economic
history and the Armenian Genocide of 1915. His publications include
Imperialism, Racism and Development Theories: The Construction of a
Dominant Paradigms on Ottoman Armenians (Gomidas Institute, 1997); At
the Crossroads of Der Zor: Death, Survival, and Humanitarian
Resistance in Aleppo, 1915-1917 [2nd Edition] (Gomidas Institute,
2002); Harry Sturmer, Two War Years in Constantinople Sketches of
German and Young Turkish Ethics and Politics [Revised and Complete
Edition (Hilmar Kaiser ed. and intro.) (Sterndale Classics, 2004);
Abram I. Elkus, the Memoirs of Abram Elkus: Lawyer, Ambassador,
Statesman (Gomidas Institute, 2004). Eberdard Von Wolffskeel was the
only German officer who served in Ottoman uniform known to have been
directly involved in the killing of Armenians. He personally led the
attack on the Armenian quarter of Ourfa, and showed exceptional zeal
when doing so. He was a callous man, and a racist, and took great
pride in his military prowess and his lack of compassion for Armenian
victims. His involvement in crushing the Armenian resistance in Ourfa
– when this community’s turn came to be deported and destroyed – makes
particularly disturbing reading. His letters to his wife provide us
with invaluable insights into the Armenian Genocide and German policy
in 1915.