Felipe Arraño’s Reviews > Age of Assassins > Status Update

By the 1920s, it is widely accepted across Europe that large-scale massacres of Armenian had taken place by the hand of the Turks (p. 350). Where Muslims were murdered, few Europeans bothered to protest, and this didn’t happen the other way around (p. 352). Soghomon Tehlirian killed Talât Pasha an Ottoman politician and war criminal who was a perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide, Tehlirian’s conscience was clear (p. 359). Tehlirian was found not guilty (p. 362). Other assassinations followed as result of the Armenian massacres (p. 362). Tehlirian’s acquittal also exculpated Germany, which became in retrospect an innocent and warning spectator to the genocide carried out by the Turks; Germany an Turkey were in alliance during the war (p. 365). Various assassinations in Europe, Presidents and Prime Ministers during the 1920s (p. 366). Political murders became a frequent occurrence in Germany, “die Feme” justice (p. 367). The Nazis didn’t exactly legalize assassination; they simply ignored the legal consequences of their acts (p. 379).