The German-Turkish axis lived.
He stopped turning round after a century of complicity in breaking a silence that Armenians vain denounced a hue and cry endlessly.
By recognizing the Armenian Genocide as the first of the twentieth century, Pope Francis has planted at a historic homily at the Vatican ahead of the elevation of St. Gregory of Narek to the rank of Doctor of the Universal Church April 12, 2015.
This is not all!
After the European Parliament and despite its obscure president Martin Schultz, after Austria and before Bulgaria, an exceptional man, President of the Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck has given the coup de grace to the Turkish state lie in not only recognizing the Armenian genocide of 1915, but above all by admitting complicity or co-guilt of German Second Reich in its commission.
By speaking in precise terms, selected and targeted, the altar of the Cathedral in Berlin April 23, 2015, this man of faith and conviction brought down the wall that concealed the horror and made squealing fury Grand Turk never saw it coming.
To say that the Imperial German government played an obscure role in the execution of the genocide of Armenians by the Young Turk dictatorship during the Great War of 1914-1918. Informed by his intelligence officers, charitable and health organizations, industrialists, intellectuals, Deutsche Bahn employees, consuls and sinister Wangenheim, German Ambassador in Constantinople, he followed from day to day, often without the knowledge of Turks, the progress of the Armenian People’s extermination program.
Flanked by Walter Rössler, former German Consul in Aleppo, a Göppert Otto, a senior official at the German embassy in Constantinople, will remain throughout the war the henchman of Talaat Pasha, Enver and Djemal. It is he who will create a propaganda service responsible for translating and disseminating a revisionist booklet called “Truth on the Armenian revolutionary movement and government action” and many other publications of the same vein under national solidarity as war while imposing censorship on the atrocities committed against the Armenians.
Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg personally ordered the publication of shameful book written by Enver Pasha “Memoirs of Tripoli.”
Another German in charge of Armenian issues at the embassy of Constantinople, Heinrich Mordtmann will be responsible for the theory of the Armenian nationalist plot to justify the killings.
Especially, December 17, 1915, in the heart of terror, when the highest German diplomats – Metternich, German Ambassador Wangenheim successor to Constantinople, Gottlieb von Jagow also Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, horrified – interfered with the Chancellery for a German official disapproval against anti-Armenian atrocities committed by the Turks, Bethmann Hollweg replied, “The proposal for a public condemnation of an ally in the war, would be contrary to our entire history. Our only goal is to keep Turkey on our side until the end of the war, the Armenians perish or not. As the war continues and we will still need the Turks. “
It is therefore in full knowledge that the Chancellor gave the Armenians to their fate, that in order not to affect the Turkish-German sacred union based on a pact which entrusted the high command of the Turkish army from the Second Reich beginning of the Great War.
It is clear that the exclusive priority of the German Empire was maintaining a military front in the Balkans and the Caucasus, and in any case the fate of a people as a whole, it must be totally exterminated.
The German behavior is therefore not within a simple copycat or passive indifference, but a calculation reflected strategic interests well understood. To satisfy his ally, it is undisputed that Germany adopted a demonic choices while dreading his own implication in the commission of the carnage. Despite the indignation of some good German souls, Pastor Johannes Lepsius in particular and contrasting positions in government and administration, it appears that the German authorities will never cease to work, during and after the war, dissimulation, disinformation, forgery and denial of the Armenian genocide.
His involvement in the occultation is such that it has taken the form of an active assent. This appears clearly in the close and mutual collaboration that presided between the two countries for the duration of the war, so that this agreement is the necessary condition for the continuation of the fatal destiny devoted to the Armenian people, as decided by the Young Turks. In full forfeiture of the Ottoman Empire, it is clear that a formal condemnation threatening German would suffice to put an end to the “Final Solution” or strongly impacted its magnitude. The Second Reich never actually intervened and sketched, let alone any humanitarian relief gesture. This decisive fault termination, voluntary, intentional and orchestrated, coupled with a deliberate failure to assist a people victim of a mass crime, determined the devastation of a nation several thousand years.
This is blatantly, of complicity in “crimes against humanity” in the terminology of the time.
In June 1921, defeated Germany thought he saw in the political acquittal Telhirian, executor of the Grand Vizier Talaat, a unique opportunity to exonerate himself and to avoid the banning of nations, fear that summarizes its real ongoing concern throughout this abomination. Then, the interest in the Armenian cause declining over time, looking for German responsibility faded to disappear with the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, ending the last hopes of a dying people. However, if the principle of the supremacy of the moral law on the opacity of the reason of state is not an illusion, then the inalienable responsibility of Germany is indisputable. Therefore, even out of season 100 years have passed, adopting a bold face stance unjustifiable evil inflicted on the Body and the Soul of the Armenian nation to grow.
By accepting out of a secular silence, compromising and assume its overwhelming role in this “detail” of history in an unprecedented confession designed to improve international awareness morale and pedagogical level, without exempting the least world of its responsibilities, the twenty-first century Germany Joachim Gauck President did so work of justice and peace between the Armenian and Turkish peoples, beyond the Anglo-American palinodes pathetic. It also helps to put these terrible events at the heart of European history.
After this unprecedented declaration of frankness and courage, confronting German archives to those bloated French, Russian, Austrian and Vatican, might even be unnecessary because no state better than Germany has irrefutable evidence of the reality of genocide Armenians. Already alone, the German President has put an end to this complicity that allowed impunity to erase a Christian people of its ancestral territory, by the most barbaric means to install another Muslim allegedly holder of original historical rights.
After shattering confession like repentance of this man, at the risk of the spread of revisionist poison radicalized under the rule of President-Caliph, the floor is now international institutions, Court of Justice or European Court of Human Rights of Man and the great diplomacy.
By restoring clear the links between German fascism, the Second and the Third Reich on the one hand and the two greatest genocides of the twentieth century on the other hand, we want to believe that the moment is near when the sun will rise on Turkey, a Germany and Armenia, united, hand in hand, at the Memorial Dzidzernakapert where the eternal flame burns the soul of our Holy Martyrs, at the foot of the sacred mountain of Christianity: Mount Ararat .
Armand SAMMELIAN May 2015
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