Armenien ohne Armenier

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - 1848 Kaiserreich Imperialismus Sprache: Deutsch Abstract: In this scholarly essay the author an experienced social scientist goes the way from the last phase before World War I to the last stage of World War II. After claiming the field naming the problem and explaining why he is in a scholarly manner working narratively the author presents systematically and comments critically various images of the Armenians as the jews of the orient widespread within the German public. This as specific as negative view of the Armenians basically meant (and often still means) above all a racial stereotype picturing a people in a way escalating the jews as defraudulent dealer and habitual liar sometimes even with criminal background. Whereas in scholarly texts published in the first German edition of Enclyclopädie des Islam before and after World War I a neutral picture of the Armenian as an ethnic group without a state of their own was painted in German society during the ´Great War´ 1914/18 under conditions of military dictatorship and effective censorship above all a sort of deutsch-tuerkische Waffenbruederschaft (German-Turkish armend brotherhood) was widely proclaimed stigmatising the Armenians as a minor ethnic group and if not denying at all at least partly justifying what the author names Armenocide as the first ´modern´ genocide within 20th century ´back in the very Turkey´. After the Lausanne Treaty (July 23 1923) was accepted by the Turkish nationalist movement as represented by the former Young Turk Mustafa Kemal the new Turkey was founded (October 23 1923) and constitutionalized (April 24 1924). In a way Kemal and his followers in so far tremendous successful political figures and inspirers for Adolf Hilter realised that dystopian concept as coined out both by Osmanian and Young Turk rulers: Armenia without Armenians.