Essay Question
In 1933, Hitler commented: “Who, after all, talks nowadays of the annihilation of the Armenians?”. To what extent did the reports of atrocities in France/Belgium and Armenia in World War One show the effectiveness (or otherwise) of human rights reporting?
Instructions -Please write 2 parts
Essay plan – In 300 Words Briefly explain the essay topic above and its relevance in the form of a draft abstract/introduction. List 5 relevant sources.
Research Essay – Use primary (3) and secondary (6-10) sources. Chicago style with footnotes and bibliography.
Below are references for use.
World War One Reports
• The full Bryce Report May: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/brycere.asp
• “The Armenian Genocide: Context and Legacy”: http://www.armeniangenocide. org/Education.56/current_category.117/resourceguide_detail.html
• Articles from the New York Times on the Armenian “Atrocity”: http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_Genocide_Contemporary_Articles
Primary Sources Databases:
• The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation: http://www.genocide- museum.am/eng/links.php
• World War One at the British Library: https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one
• The First World War: http://www.firstworldwar.amdigital.co.uk
Extended Reading
de Schaepdrijver, Sophie. “The Long Shadow of the ‘German Atrocities’ of 1914.” British Library, 29 January 2014: https://www.bl.uk/world-war- one/articles/civilian-atrocities-german-1914
Fitzpatrick, Matthew P. “‘Ideal and Ornamental Endeavours’: The Armenian Reforms and Germany’s Response to Britain’s Imperial Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1878–83.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 40, no. (2012): 183-206.
Fox, Jo. “Atrocity Propaganda.” British Library, 29 January 2014: https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/atrocity-propaganda
Horne, J. and A Kramer. “German ‘Atrocities’ and Franco-German Opinion, 1914: The Evidence of German Soldiers’ Diaries.” The Journal of Modern History, vol. 66 (1994): 1-33.
Sanders, M.L. “”Wellington House and British Propaganda during the First World War.”” The Historical Journal, vol. 18, no.1 (1975): 119-146.
Taylor, Philip M. “The Foreign Office and British Propaganda During the First World War’, The Historical Journal, vol. 23, no. 4 (1980): 875-898.
Trevor, W. “”Lord Bryce’s Investigation into Alleged German Atrocities in Belgium, 1914-15.”” Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 14, no. 3 (1979): 369-383.
The Armenian Genocide
Akçam, Taner. From Empire to Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide. London: Zed Books, 2004.
Balakian, Peter. The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.
Bloxham, Donald. The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Dadrian, Vahakn N. The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1995.
Derdarian, Mae. Vergeen: A Survivor of the Armenian Genocide. Los Angeles: Atmus Press Publications, 1998.
Jones, Adam. Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2010.
Melson, Robert. Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Moses, A. Dirk. (ed.). Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, And Subaltern Resistance in World History. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.”
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