Quote#War
Before Armenia could be slaughtered, Armenia must be made…
Quote byHenry Morgenthau · 1856–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York (1918), "Chapter XXIV - The Murder of a Nation" page 301.
English (original)
Before Armenia could be slaughtered, Armenia must be made defenseless. In the early part of 1915, the Armenian soldiers in the Turkish army were reduced to a new status. Up to that time most of them had been combatants, but now they were all stripped of their arms and transformed into workmen.
— Henry Morgenthau
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