GERMAN SCHOLARS TO DEAL WITH ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN REAL EARNEST

PanARMENIAN.Net - The archive after orientalist Johannes Lepsius of Martin Luter University is full of original documents on the Armenian Genocide and its consequences, stated University professor, doctor Herman Holtz in an interview with Potsdaner Neusten Nachrichten. In his words, a rare stenography of the Talat pasha trial of 1921 is kept in that archive and as the Ottoman Minister of the Interior Talat was responsible for the Armenian Genocide. As noted by Holtz, today it is needed to move the archive to Potsdam for comprehensive research of the facts of the Armenian Genocide in spite of the pressure put by Turkey. «In the near future Turkey will have to recognize its responsibility for the historical crime,» Holtz said. In his words, the archive stores original documents, however he is not going to work with them, as in his words there are people interested in destroying these documents. The Death Course of the Armenian People book, written in 1919 and not printed due to political considerations, is in the Lepsius archive. «The topic was too delicate and no large edition of the time agreed to print the Lepsius book,» Holtz said. «However, a Jewish printing house ventured to print the book in Der Reichsbote Christian newspaper in Berlin. The archive also contains Franz Werfel novels, which use Lepsius reports as historical sources. New materials need to be added to the archive, as the Armenian Genocide topic remains urgent before Turkey's possible accession to the EU,» Holtz notes.