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Updated: May 9, 2025
In September 1915, four months before the denial of the massacres was made in the Reichstag, Dr. Martin Niepage, higher grade teacher in the German Technical School at Aleppo, prepared and sent, as we have seen, in his name, and that of several of his colleagues, a report of the massacres to the German Embassy at Constantinople.
Niepage also consulted, before sending his report, with the German Consul at Aleppo, Herr Hoffman, who told him that the German Embassy had been already advised in detail about the massacres from the consulates at Alexandretta, Aleppo, and Mosul, but that he welcomed a further protest on the subject.
The second group, consisting of able-bodied men, was led off in batches and slaughtered. Among them were Zohrab and Vartkes, Armenian deputies who had been brought there from Constantinople. The third group consisted of young marriageable girls. Some, perhaps, found their way into harems. Martin Niepage, High Grade teacher in the German Technical School.
No effort that Turkey can make" she was then still mistress of the Sawâd "can be too great to roll away the reproach of these parched and weary lands, whose cry ascends to heaven." Turkey, which claims the present in Western Asia, is nothing but an overthrow of the past and an obstruction of the future. Martin Niepage, Oberlehrer an der deutschen Realschule zu Aleppo, z.Zt. Wernigerode.
Niepage, and the belated remonstrance of the Prussians themselves when they foresaw a dearth of labour for the husbandry of beet and cereals, fell on deaf ears, and I cannot see any reason for supposing that Armenian men exist any more in the Empire. It is more difficult to judge of the numbers of women who, by accepting the Moslem creed and the harems, are still alive.
Niepage is convinced that the blood of the Armenians will be on Germany's head: "'The teaching of the Germans, is the simple Turk's explanation, ... and more sensitive Mohammedans, Turks and Arabs alike, cannot believe that their own Government has ordered these horrors.
Certainly in some districts there were considerable 'conversions, and Dr. Niepage rates them as many thousands. But the willingness to accept those conditions was not always a guarantee for their being granted, and I have read reports where would-be converts were told that 'religion' was a more serious matter than that, and, instead of being accepted, they were massacred. But even if Dr.
Eye-witnesses at Urfa describe how the Armenian community there was massacred in 1915 the third time in twenty years, and this time to extinction and it points the irony of the situation that the Turkish guns were served by German artillerymen . "I have nothing to say," writes Dr. Niepage, the German teacher from Aleppo, "about the opinion of the German officers in Turkey.
If one brings food, one notices that they have forgotten how to eat.... If one gives them bread, they put it aside indifferently. They just lie there quietly waiting for death. Dr. Niepage wrote this report in the hope of saving such as then survived.
Niepage is right, we can scarcely consider these women as constituting an Armenian element any more in the country. The work of butchery, the torture, the long-drawn agonies of those inhuman pilgrimages have come to an end because there are no more Armenian victims available.
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