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Armin T. Wegner
Armin Theophil Wegner was a German soldier and medic in World War I, a prolific author, and a human rights activist. Stationed in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, Wegner was a witness to the Armenian genocide and the photographs he took documenting the plight of the Armenians today "comprises the core of witness images of the Genocide."
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science · German pacifist, writer and poet (1886–1978) · photographer · writer · resistance fighter · physician · author · pacifist · jurist · travel writer · poet · also Armin T. Wegner, Armin Theophil Wegner, Armin T. Wegener, Wegner
Born 16 October 1886 · Died 17 May 1978 · Q77036
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1978· 1 entry
Died 1978-05-17.
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Righteous Among the Nations (1967).
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Was accorded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem
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1939· 1 entry
Wegner and his wife mutually agreed to divorce
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1933· 4 entries
Were released as a result of the Christmas amnesty, proclaimed by Nazi leader Hermann Göring
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Wegner was arrested and taken to the Gestapo prison in Berlin
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Shortly after the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses, Wegner denounced the persecution of Jews in Germany in an open letter to Adolf Hitler
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Authored an impassioned plea to Adolf Hitler on behalf of German Jews
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1922· 1 entry
Wegner published Der Schrei von Ararat (The Scream from Ararat), an appeal for the rights of surviving Armenians
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1921· 1 entry
Wegner testified at the trial of Soghomon Tehlirian, the Ottoman Armenian who had killed Talat Pasha in Berlin
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1919· 1 entry
Wegner published Der Weg ohne Heimkehr (The Road of No Return), a collection of letters he had written during what he deemed the "martyrdom" (Martyrium) of the Anatolian Armenians
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1886· 1 entry
Born 1886-10-16.
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