ABSTRACT
The guns had been silent barely two days when the German torpedo boat Lorelei slipped its mooring in the Bosphorus, during the night of November 1918, moved through the Golden Horn, and secretly entered the Black Sea, heading for Odessa. The governments of France, Great Britain, and Russia had agreed to make the following declaration. For a month, the Turkish and Kurdish populations, in agreement with the agents of the Turkish government, and often with their assistance, have been massacring Armenians. Among the other traveling companions who had managed to secure a place on the Lorelei, one might also recognize four key architects of the Armenian final solution: Drs. Nazim and Shakir, the heads of the Chete militias; the vali (governor) of Trebizond, Jemal Azmi; and the Constantinople police commandant, Bedri Bey. The speed with which these populations were removed because of the war led to massacres on the way that ought by all means to have been prevented.
