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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story

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    Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
    by Henry Morgenthau



    Originally published in 1918, "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" is one of the most insightful and compelling accounts of what became a recurring horror during the 20th century: ethnic cleansing and genocide. While he served as the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1916, Henry Morgenthau witnessed the rise of a new nationalism in Turkey, one that declared "Turkey for the Turks." He grew alarmed as he received reports from missionaries and consuls in the interior of Turkey that described deportation and massacre of the Armenians. The ambassador beseeched the U.S. government to intervene, but it refrained, leaving Morgenthau without official leverage. His recourse was to appeal personally to the consciences of Ottoman rulers and their German allies; when that failed, he drew international media attention to the genocide and spearheaded private relief efforts.

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    Ambassador Morgenthau rescued my grandfather's and granduncle's families in Marsovan where they both were on the faculty of Anatolia college.

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      Originally posted by Amy
      Ambassador Morgenthau rescued my grandfather's and granduncle's families in Marsovan where they both were on the faculty of Anatolia college.
      Are you serious? wow.... that's awesome!!!
      I lost family members in the genocide, my great-grandmother was the only one in their family that escaped...

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        Originally posted by Tongue
        Are you serious? wow.... that's awesome!!!
        I lost family members in the genocide, my great-grandmother was the only one in their family that escaped...
        My dear Armenian friends,

        I am a Serb from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am 19 years old and I have developed a great intrest in the unfortunate tragedy of your people in your ancestral land.
        From now own I will try to be present on this forum every day. I have read 'Ambassador Morgenthau's Story' in English and I was wondering can you look at your archives and resourses if there is a version of the book in Serbian. English is to me as Serbian but I am wondering this because I want more of people from the territory of former Yugoslavia to read and to educate themselfs about your tragedy.
        I will come back to the forum soon, all the best my friends.

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          Morgenthau's Memoirs Published for First Time in Turkey

          Ragip Zarakolu, owner of Belge Publishing House, recently published Henry
          Morgenthau's memoirs of his term as US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during
          the Armenian genocide. This is the first time his memoirs have been published
          in Turkey.
          Zarakolu is notorious in Turkey for publishing books deemed subversive by the
          Turkish authorities. Because of his work, Zarakolu spent three years in prison
          in the 1970's. His wife also spent several years in prison.
          Belge Publishing House has published countless books about the Armenian
          genocide, including Franz Werfel's Forty Days in Musa Dagh, Tessa Hoffman's
          Talaat Pasha Trials in Berlin, and Peter Balakian's Black Dog of the Fate.
          When Zarakolu was acquitted of charges against him for publishing a book by
          Vahakn Dadrian, the possibility of more free discussion about the Armenian
          genocide in Turkey increased.
          Since then he has withstood a constant barrage of criminal charges, further
          imprisonment, confiscation and destruction of books, the bombing of his
          publishing house, and heavy government fines and taxes. His publishing house
          has endured more than 40 criminal indictments.
          "All truth passes through three stages:
          First, it is ridiculed;
          Second, it is violently opposed; and
          Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

          Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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