Friday, January 21, 2005

NEW PUBLICATION

GOMIDAS INSTITUTE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DOCUMENTATION SERIES

LETTERS ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WRITTEN BY GERMAN OFFICER

SECOND EDITION (WITH NEW INTRODUCTION)


Hilmar Kaiser, Eberhard Count Wolffskeel Von Reichenberg, Zeitoun, Mousa Dagh, Ourfa: Letters on the Armenian Genocide, (Princeton and London: Gomidas Institute, 2004), 2nd Edition, xxxii + 66, maps, ISBN 1-903656-03-6, paper, UK£8.00 / US$14.00.

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Kaiser is a 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 (Hilmar Kaiser ed. and intro.), The Memoirs of Abram Elkus: Lawyer, Ambassador, Statesman, (Hilmar Kaiser, ed. and intro) (Gomidas Institute, 2004).

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