Martin Niepage. The Horrors of Aleppo... Seen by a German Eyewitness. A word to Germany's Accredited Representatives by Dr. Martin Niepage, Higher Grade Teacher in the German Technical School at Aleppo, at present at Wernigerode. T. Fisher Unwin, London, (1916). 185x120mm, 24pp. Original wrappers. Provenance: Army Medical Library (in 1935), and then the Library of Congress. There are cataloging notes on the front cover, as well as a “withdrawn for Exchange” Army Medical stamp and a “surplus” LC rubber stamp (that on the rear cover). Overall, even though this sounds like a lot, the overall effect is somewhat bibliographically artistic (with the sense of a faithful car with 200,000 miles on it), reporting on the awful terror of the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. Overall: GOOD condition. $200
This is the first report to reach the West on the Armenian Genocide beginning in 1915, brought as a narrative from a German school teacher.
“In April 1915 the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic decimation of its civilian Armenian population. The persecutions continued with varying intensity until 1923 when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey. The Armenian population of the Ottoman state was reported at about two million in 1915. An estimated one million had perished by 1918, while hundreds of thousands had become homeless and stateless refugees. By 1923 virtually the entire Armenian population of Anatolian Turkey had disappeared.”--Armenian Genocide Organization
Full text is located at archive.org https://archive.org/stream/horrorsofaleppos00niep/horrorsofaleppos00niep_djvu.txt
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