What are the facts about the Armenian genocide?

During World War I, the Young Turks political reform movement moved to eliminate the Armenian people from the Ottoman Empire. Of the 2 million total Armenians, 1.5 million were killed. The Armenian people were tortured, massacred, and starved. The majority were sent into the desert to die of thirst and hunger. read more

The Armenian genocide was the ruthless slaughter of millions of Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. In 1915, during World War I, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians. read more

9 One of Hitler’s Early Co-Conspirators Was a Witness to the Armenian Genocide. Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter was the German vice-consul in Erzerum at the time of the Armenian genocide. He condemned the Ottoman Empire’s practices in his writings as a policy of annihilation. read more