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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

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Number of Chapters: 29

Length: 12 hours and 38 minutes

Language: English

Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide. During this genocide, approximately 1,500,000 Armenians living in Anatolia were murdered in an attempt to rid Turkey of its non-Turkish populations. Mr. Morgenthau left Turkey a frustrated man, having done all that he was able through diplomatic circles to halt the murders, to no avail.
Today, Turkey’s official position is that their attempt to annihilate the Armenian population in Turkey was not a genocide. In 2010, the American House Foreign Relations Committee passed House Resolution 252, officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
“If we hope to stop future genocides we need to admit to those horrific acts of the past. When Hitler had to convince his cohorts that the world would let them get away with it, he turned to them and said, ‘Who today speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?’,” said Congressman Brad Sherman, co-sponsor of the resolution. “The last act of any genocide is genocide denial, and the first act of preventing the next genocide is to acknowledge past acts of genocide.” (Introduction by Margaret Espaillat)

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01 - A German Superman (Margaret Espaillat)
02 - The "Boss System" (Margaret Espaillat)
03 - The Personal Representative of the Kaiser (Margaret Espaillat)
04 - Germany Mobilizes the Turkish Army (Margaret Espaillat)
05 - Wangenheim Smuggles the Goeben and the Breslau (Margaret Espaillat)
06 - Wangenheim Tells how the Kaiser Started the War (Margaret Espaillat)
07 - Germany's Plans for New Territories (Margaret Espaillat)
08 - A Classic Instance of German Propaganda (Margaret Espaillat)
09 - Germany Closes the Dardanelles (Margaret Espaillat)
10 - Turkey's Abrogation of the Capitulations (Margaret Espaillat)
11 - Germany Forces Turkey into the War (Margaret Espaillat)
12 - The Turks and Alien Enemies (Margaret Espaillat)
13 - The Invasion of the Notre Dame de Sion School (Margaret Espaillat)
14 - Wangenheim and Bethlehem Steel (Margaret Espaillat)
15 - Djemal (Margaret Espaillat)
16 - The Turks Prepare to Flee (Margaret Espaillat)
17 - Enver (Margaret Espaillat)
18 - The Allied Armada Sails Away (Margaret Espaillat)
19 - A Fight for Three Thousand Civilians (Margaret Espaillat)
20 - More Adventures of the Foreign Residents (Margaret Espaillat)
21 - Bulgaria on the Auction Block (Margaret Espaillat)
22 - The Turk Reverts to the Ancestral Type (Margaret Espaillat)
23 - The "Revolution" at Van (Margaret Espaillat)
24 - The Murder of a Nation (Margaret Espaillat)
25 - Talaat Tells Why he Deports the Armenians (Margaret Espaillat)
26 - Enver Pasha Discusses the Armenians (Margaret Espaillat)
27 - "I Shall Do Nothing for the Armenians" (Margaret Espaillat)
28 - Enver Again Moves for Peace (Margaret Espaillat)
29 - Von Jagow, Zimmermann, and German-Americans (Margaret Espaillat)
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