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050 00 DS195.5|b.I35 2016 
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100 1  Ihrig, Stefan,|eauthor. 
245 10 Justifying Genocide :|bGermany and the Armenians from 
       Bismarck to Hitler /|cStefan Ihrig. 
264  1 Cambridge, Massachusetts :|bHarvard University Press,
       |c2016. 
300    viii, 460 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Prologue: Franz Werfel Meets Adolf Hitler -- Introduction:
       Questions of Genocide? -- Part I. Armenian Blood Money -- 
       1. Beginnings under Bismarck -- 2. Germany and the 
       Armenian Horrors of the 1890s -- 3. The Triumph of German 
       Anti-Armenianism -- 4. From Revolution to Abyss -- Part 
       II. Under German Noses -- 5. Notions of Total War -- 6. 
       Dispatches from Erzurum -- 7. "Interlude of the Gods" -- 
       8. What Germany Could Have Known -- Part III. Debating 
       Genocide -- 9. War Crimes, War Guilt, and Whitewashing -- 
       10. Assassination in Berlin, 1921 -- 11. Trial in Berlin -
       - 12. The Victory of Justificationalism -- Part IV. The 
       Nazis and the Armenian Genocide -- 13. Racial Discourse 
       and the Armenians -- 14. The Nazis' New Turkey -- 15. No 
       Smoking Gun -- Epilogue: Armenian Writings on the Wall. 
520 2  "The Armenian Genocide and the Nazi Holocaust are often 
       thought to be separated by a large distance in time and 
       space. But Stefan Ihrig shows that they were much more 
       connected than previously thought. Bismarck and then 
       Wilhelm II staked their foreign policy on close relations 
       with a stable Ottoman Empire. To the extent that the 
       Armenians were restless under Ottoman rule, they were a 
       problem for Germany too. From the 1890s onward Germany 
       became accustomed to excusing violence against Armenians, 
       even accepting it as a foreign policy necessity. For many 
       Germans, the Armenians represented an explicitly racial 
       problem and despite the Armenians' Christianity, Germans 
       portrayed them as the 'Jews of the Orient.' As Stefan 
       Ihrig reveals in this first comprehensive study of the 
       subject, many Germans before World War I sympathized with 
       the Ottomans' longstanding repression of the Armenians and
       would go on to defend vigorously the Turks' wartime 
       program of extermination. After the war, in what Ihrig 
       terms the 'great genocide debate, ' German nationalists 
       first denied and then justified genocide in sweeping 
       terms. The Nazis too came to see genocide as justifiable: 
       in their version of history, the Armenian Genocide had 
       made possible the astonishing rise of the New Turkey. 
       Ihrig is careful to note that this connection does not 
       imply the Armenian Genocide somehow caused the Holocaust, 
       nor does it make Germans any less culpable. But no history
       of the twentieth century should ignore the deep, direct, 
       and disturbing connections between these two crimes. As 
       Stefan Ihrig shows in this first comprehensive study, many
       Germans sympathized with the Ottomans' longstanding 
       repression of the Armenians and with the Turks' program of
       extermination during World War I"--Provided by publisher. 
650  0 Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923|xForeign public opinion, 
       German. 
650  0 Armenian massacres, 1894-1896|xForeign public opinion, 
       German. 
650  0 Armenian massacres, 1909|xForeign public opinion, German. 
650  0 Armenians|xPublic opinion|xHistory. 
650  0 Genocide|xPolitical aspects|zGermany|xHistory. 
650  0 Genocide|zGermany|xPhilosophy|xHistory. 
650  0 Racism|zGermany|xPhilosophy|xHistory. 
650  0 Nazis|xAttitudes|xHistory. 
651  0 Germany|xForeign relations|zTurkey. 
651  0 Turkey|xForeign relations|zGermany. 
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