Stefan Ihrig is Professor of History at the University of Haifa.
Fascinating and highly readable… Ihrig brilliantly lays bare the
‘confluence’ between German anti-Semitic and anti-Armenian
stereotypes.
*Irish Times*
In this compelling narrative, Ihrig finds that the so-called
Armenian Horrors were vigorously debated in the [German] government
and in periodicals of the time… Ihrig’s deep, scrupulous research
reveals the official pattern set by the Germans ‘vis-à-vis the
Armenians’ as an ‘enabler’ for the Ottomans, later giving way to
open justification, denial, and whitewashing of the horrors visited
on the Armenian people… A groundbreaking academic study that shows
how Germany derived from the Armenian genocide ‘a plethora of
recipes’ to address its own ethnic problems.
*Kirkus Reviews*
Yet another excellent book by Stefan Ihrig about the uncanny
German–Turkish connection. The story of the Armenian Genocide and
its reception in post–World War I Germany thus becomes a German,
not a Turkish or Armenian, story about racism and the road taken by
Germany toward the Holocaust. A surprising answer to the question:
How was the Holocaust possible in twentieth-century Germany of all
places?
*Moshe Zimmermann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem*
This book is a major contribution to the study of German attitudes
toward the Armenian Genocide. It puts German policies and reactions
to Ottoman Turkey in the general perspective of Germany’s policies
before, during, and after World War I. It deals with the parallels
between German attitudes to Armenians and to Jews, and permits us
to understand the complexities and problems of different minority
groups within German society relative to Turkey.
*Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem*
After Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination, Stefan Ihrig again presents
an intelligent book of uncommon originality. By exposing how
‘justificationalism’ led to an ethic-free thinking in concepts of
‘final solutions,’ he shows how this became a strong mental link
between the Armenian Genocide and the Shoah. Written in the elegant
style of a historical drama in several acts, this is a great
achievement.
*Rolf Hosfeld, Lepsiushaus Potsdam*
It is striking to see the ideological similarities between Germany
in the late 1920s and Kemalist Turkey, or Mussolinian Italy.
Written in a lively style, well-balanced and well-documented, this
book will advance the debate on the relationship between mass
violences that marked the twentieth century.
*Raymond Kévorkian, University of Paris VIII*
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