Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau (1918)

Preface

By this time the American people have probably become convinced that the Germans deliberately planned the conquest of the world. Yet they hestitate to convict on circumstantial evidence and for this reason all eye witnesses to this, the greatest crime in modern history, should volunteer their testimony.

I have therefore laid aside my scruples I had as to the prosperity of disclosing my fellow countrymen the facts which I learned while representing them in Turkey. I aqcuired this knowlede as the servant of the American people, and it is their property as much as it is mine.

I greatly regret that I have been obliged to omit an account of the splendid activities of the American Missionary and Educational Institutions in Turkey, but to do justice to this subject would require a book by itself. I have much to omit the story of the Jews in Turkey for the same reasons.

My thanks are due to my friend, Mr.Burton J. Hendrick, for the invaluable assistance he has rendered in the preparation of the book.

HENRY MORGENTHAU
October, 1918

I include the first paragraph of the book below to emphasize at the high level of the governments of the Atlantic Allies there was an vehement anti-German attitude, and the outrageous lies, exaggerations, and manipulations they went through to maintain their; zealotry. The boogeyman Teutonic Empire, in the same spirit as their other favourite moniker the Hun, is on cue while later on in the book he praises the Turks and Young Turks which would be an amusing hyperbole, having been so absurd as to elicit laughter at the fool, if the ensuing consequences were not so severe promptly ending any jest. Every sentence in the excerpt contains some lie and/or outrageous exaggeration only the idiot or fool would believe!

Excerpt

When I began writing these reminiscences of my ambassadorship, Germany's schemes in the Turkish Empire and the Near East seemed to have achieved a temporary success. The Central Powers had apparently disintegrated Russia, transformed the Baltic and the Black seas into German lakes, and had obtained a new route to the East by way of the Caucasus. For the time being Germany dominated her aspiration for a new Teutonic Empire, extending from the North Sea to the Persian Gulf, as practically realized. The world now knows, though it did not clearly understand this fact in 1914, that Germany precipitated the war to destroy Serbia, seize control of the Balkan nations, transform Turkey into a vassal state, and thus obtain a huge oriental empire that would form the basis for unlimited dominion. Did these German aggressions in the East mean that this extensive programme had succeeded?

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