Some Americans Will Fight in the Allied ranks; Others To Form A Separate American Army in France. Minorities See Opportunities. Special to The Great War Project (7 May) The quarrel of the Allies ends in May a century ago, with a compromise that pleases no one. The bitter debate centers on how to deploy the…
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NO END TO ARMENIAN SLAUGHTER
by Mike Shuster
A Priest’s Witness to Genocide; Ottoman Officer With Bloody Hands Tells the Story. Special to The Great War Project (8-10 September) The massacre of Turkey’s Armenian population continues relentlessly, beginning in February 1915, and grinding on through the terrible spring and summer of that year a century ago. Several first-person accounts of the carnage surface.…
GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, OTTOMANS ‘IN THE ASCENDANT’
by Mike Shuster
Italy Now in War: Repeated Attacks in the Alps Fail; Ceaseless Slaughter of Armenians Special to The Great War Project (4-13 July) The slaughter of Armenians living in Turkey continues without a break. The attacks on Turkey’s Armenian population begin several months earlier. It has not stopped. Hundreds-of-thousands of Armenians are slaughtered. In early to…
THE SLAUGHTER GRINDS ON
by Mike Shuster
Stalemate is Deadly on Western Front; Russia Collapsing in East. Secret Orders for Mass Murder of Armenians in Turkey Special to The Great War Project (25-27 May) Thousands of soldiers are dying every day, and the news is dismal from all corners of the war’s battlefields. On May 25 a century ago, the Second Battle…
MURDER OF ARMENIANS ‘WELL PLANNED AND ORCHESTRATED’
by Mike Shuster
The Gruesome Details; Thousands of Cultural Leaders Killed An Armenian Day of Mourning Special to The Great War Project (23-24 April) On April 24th one hundred years ago to the day, the head of the Armenian Church in the Ottoman Empire appeals to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to intervene in the slaughter of Turkey’s Armenian…
IN TURKEY’S EAST, A WITNESS TO MURDER
by Mike Shuster
Order to Exterminate all Armenian Males, Twelve Years and Over; German Gas Stockpile Growing Special to The Great War Project (17-20 April) The slaughter of the Armenians in Turkey continues unabated. On April 19th a century ago the killing is especially merciless in the town of Van in eastern Turkey. “By April 19th,” writes historian…
SAVAGE VIOLENCE AGAINST ARMENIANS IN TURKEY
by Mike Shuster
Deportations Designed to Kill; Thousands on Death March Special to The Great War Project. (11-13 April) The circumstances of the Armenian population living in Ottoman Turkey continual to deteriorate. The murderous treatment of the Armenians in Turkey is not new. It has been going on for years. But now it is turning more and more…