Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorf

Friedrich (Fritz) Bronsart von Schellendorf (1864–1950)[1] was a German officer and politician. He was the chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army, part of German military mission in the Ottoman Empire. He had replaced Otto Liman von Sanders who was sent to the Aegean region due to his disagreements with Enver Pasha. He was instrumental drafting initial war plans for the Ottoman Army. Some historians consider Bronsart von Schellendorf to have instigated the Armenian Genocide.[2][3] He was an ardent supporter of Hitler during 1930s also.[4]

Bronsart von Schellendorf as colonel in October 1912

Schellendorf's comments in 1919:

Like the Jew, the Armenian outside his homeland is like a parasite, absorbing the wellbeing of the country in which he is established. This also results in hatred that has been directed against him in a medieval manner as an unwanted people, and has led to his murder[5]

Notes
  1. Deutsches Bundesarchiv
  2. Dadrian, Vahakn N., The history of the Armenian genocide: ethnic conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. Berghahn Books, New York 2004, ISBN 1-57181-666-6, p.256.
  3. Ihrig, Stefan (2016). Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler. Harvard University Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-674-50479-0.
  4. ERMENİ SOYKIRIMINDA ALMANYA’NIN ROLÜ, 6 November 2015, Merve Erol, Heinrich Boll Stiftung
  5. Buttar, Prit (2016). Collision of Empires, The War on the Eastern Front in 1914. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 359. ISBN 9781472813183.
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