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“At the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, Johannes Lepsius, a Protestant minister and the son of the famous Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, became known as "the staunch defender of the Armenians." The turning point in his life came in the years 1894-96, when news reached Germany of the massacres of Armenians perpetrated by Sultan Hamid. This prompted him to resign from his position as vicar and devote himself exclusively to helping the persecuted Armenians by informing the German public about the unspeakable horrors that were taking place in Turkey and by initiating a variety of pro-Armenian actions.” Dora Sakayan “In "Germany and Armenia", Lepsius painted an atrocious, but still very exact picture only of the actual genocide of 1915/16, because his own research made him extremely well informed on this. And he was assisted by Walter Roessler, the former consul in Aleppo who was also very interested in bringing the historical truth to light, which he had documented again and again during his stay in Turkey without receiving any response from his superiors in Berlin.” Wolfgang Gust youtube/watch?v=5KXPDcsYKYw
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:17:13 +0000

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