The Hellenic Genocide
Quotes from historical documents and related Photos.

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Face To Face With Kaiserism
James W. Gerard
1918

CHAPTER XXI:

"if he had spoken of the whole nation of the Armenians, of the Syrians, of the Jews, massacred by the Turks while the German Generals in command of the Turkish armies stood by; if he had denounced the invasion of Belgium, the breaking of treaties, the starvation of Poland, the horrors of poisoned gas and the cruelties exercised upon those of the opposing armies unfortunate enough to become prisoners of the Germans.

But no, Dr. Dryander droned on. No pastor in Germany has dared to risk his state-paid salary to stand up for Christianity and the right."



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American Women And The World War
Ida Clyde Clarke
1918

CHAPTER XXXVII:

"The American Committee for Armenian and Syrian relief was formed in October, 1915, and in less than two years total contributions aggregated $3,400,00. The purpose of the committee has been to save the lives of the members of the Christian Races threatened with extermination through the war in Western Asia."



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Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Henry Morgenthau
1918

CHAPTER III:

"Their population was Greek and had been Greek since the days of Homer; the coast of Asia Minor itself was also Greek; more than half the population of Smyrna, Turkey's greatest Mediterranean seaport, was Greek; in its industries, its commerce, and its culture the city was so predominantly Greek that the Turks usually referred to it as giaour Ismir---"infidel Smyrna.""


CHAPTER III:

"Since Germany, however, had her own plans for Asia Minor, inevitably the Greeks in this region formed a barrier to Pan-German aspirations. As long as this region remained Greek, it formed a natural obstacle to Germany's road to the Persian Gulf, precisely as did Serbia."


CHAPTER III:

"The violent shifting of whole peoples from one part of Europe to another, as though they were so many herds of cattle, has for years been part of the Kaiser's plans for German expansion. This is the treatment which, since the war began, she has applied to Belgium, to Poland, to Serbia; its most hideous manifestation, as I shall show, has been to Armenia. Acting under Germany's prompting, Turkey now began to apply this principle of deportation to her Greek subjects in Asia Minor."


CHAPTER III:

"The events that followed foreshadowed the policy adopted in' the Armenian massacres. The Turkish officials pounced upon the Greeks, herded them in groups and marched them toward the ships. They gave them no time to settle their private affairs, and they took no pains to keep families together. The plan was to transport the Greeks to the wholly Greek islands in the Aegean. Naturally the Greeks rebelled against such treatment, and occasional massacres were the result, especially in Phocaea, where more than fifty people were murdered."


CHAPTER III:

"The Turks demanded that all foreign establishments in Smyrna dismiss their Greek employees and replace them with Moslems. Among other American concerns, the Singer Manufacturing Company received such instructions, and though I interceded and obtained sixty days' delay, ultimately this American concern had to obey the mandate. An official boycott was established against all Christians, not only in Asia Minor, but in Constantinople, but this boycott did not discriminate against the Jews, who have always been more popular with the Turks than have the Christians."


CHAPTER III:

"This procedure against the Greeks not improperly aroused my indignation. I did not have the slightest suspicion at that time that the Germans had instigated these deportations, but I looked upon them merely as an outburst of Turkish ferocity and chauvinism. By this time I knew Talaat well; I saw him nearly every day, and he used to discuss practically every phase of international relations with me. I objected vigorously to his treatment of the Greeks; I told him that it would make the worst possible impression abroad and that it affected American interests."



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The City of Smyrna, with information in Hellenic.
The City of Smyrna, with information in Hellenic.




Mobilization of the Turkish army.
Mobilization of the Turkish army.




Christian leaders hanged.
Christian leaders hanged.




Heads of Armenians killed by the Turks.
Heads of Armenians killed by the Turks.




The English Post Office in Smyrna. Burnt.
The English Post Office in Smyrna. Burnt.




The church of Saint Anne in Imvros.
The church of Saint Anne in Imvros.




Turks looting Hellenic property.
Turks looting Hellenic property.




Desecrated tombs of benefactors.
Desecrated tombs of benefactors.




Sadness and faith in a destroyed church.
Sadness and faith in a destroyed church.




Hellenic shops destroyed by Turks.
Hellenic shops destroyed by Turks.