German Role in the Armenian Genocide

Germany had a very close relationship with Turkey during WWI

➡️Germany didn't contribute to the genocide but had policies that condoned it

➡️Germany had a willingness to embrace Turkey's genocidal tactics

➡️Kaiser Wilhelm II had a tolerance for Turkey's anti-Armenian policies which influenced German and Turkish relations

➡️General Bronsart Von Schellendorf issued deportation orders and demanded that severe measures be used against the Armenians

➡️Major Eberhard Wolffs- keel singlehandedly killed the Armenian section Ulfra which was home to 25,000 Armenians when Turkey was unable to take the barricades set up by Armenians to avoid deportation.

➡️There were some who objected towards the genocide and tried to report it but were ignored and reprimanded.

➡️German military officers even helped members of the Young Turks escapes Turkey into Germany after the war.

▶️These actions of Germany paved the way to the Holocaust during WWII

➡️They responded nonchalantly to the massacres of the 1890's

➡️This signaled to the Turks that Germany didn't testify towards the purge of its Armenian population

➡️This lead towards a nonintervention during the Armenian genocide because they needed the trust of their ally during WWI

➡️They worked to cover up the genocide and lower suspicion of their involvement

➡️They also created a book that blamed the Armenians for the actions of the Turkish

➡️Germany helped finance the genocide and help with deportations