The British radio station BBC-3 prepared a special report devoted to the defense on the Musa Dagh Mountain. 

According to the report, Franz Werfel's novel “The forty days of Musa Dagh”, which was published in 1933, was a great success. The novel tells about the struggle of the “guerrilla army” of Armenian villages holding out against Turkish forces on the mountain of Musa Dagh in 1915.

“The mass murder of more than a million Armenians during this period had led to an international outcry during the war and, after 1919, the beginning of a campaign of denial by the Turkish government that succeeded the collapsing Ottoman Empire. Germany, former ally of the Ottoman empire, also rejected any guilt by association but the assassination of Talaat Bey, former Ottoman Minister of the Interior and the key architect of the Armenian extermination, who was gunned down in Berlin in 1921 by an Armenian, caused a furore. The subsequent trial became a major media event and exposed the knowledge of the German government about the massacres. The fate of the Armenians was widely discussed and many on the right explicitly linked them with the 'Jewish question' as Hitler rose to power,” BBC reported.

Author Maria Margaronis also noted that Werfel’s book was banned, but it was translated into 34 languages of the world. According to her, Hollywood made attempts to film it, but thanks to the efforts of the Turkish government, this was not done.