House of Johannes Lepsius in Berlin hosted the presentation of a book on Armenian Genocide titled “Death in the desert: The Armenian Genocide” on Thursday. The author of the book is the German historian Rolf Hosfeld, Lepsius House website reports. The annotation to the book reads:

“Catastrophe – this is how the Armenians call the horrible events, which began in spring 1915, the first Genocide of the 20th century.

Rolf Hosfeld, one of the best experts, presents a strong and precise picture of the Genocide, explains its background and the taboos, which still surround the historiography on that issue.

In spring and summer 1915, the Ottoman Armenians were gathered and expelled before the eyes of the whole world with the evident view of “clearing the Turkish Empire of the Armenian race,” the German Ambassador to Constantinople wrote in his dispatch to Berlin in July 1915. Up to 1,5 million people died; many of them who were men, women and children, were deported to the desert and left there to die.  

By his book, Rolf Hosfeld created a new memorial to the victims of the Genocide, which Turkey still keeps denying.”