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The long shadow of genocide: Armenia’s vengeance years

In Operation Nemesis Eric Bogosian shows how, in the 1920s, the world turned a blind eye to widespread revenge killings for the 1915 Armenian massacres

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot to Avenge the Armenian Genocide Eric Bogosian

Little Brown, pp.288, £20, ISBN: 9780316292085

One morning in March 1921 a large man in an overcoat left his house in Charlottenburg, Berlin, to take a walk in the Tiergarten. A young man crossed his path, drew a pistol and shot him in the neck. Emitting a groan ‘like a branch falling off a tree’, he fell dead.

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