The holocaust that Alma Mahler’s husband exposed

The holocaust that Alma Mahler’s husband exposed

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norman lebrecht

June 11, 2018

Turkey still denies responsiblity for its mass murder of Armenians. The world would know little about it but for Franz Werfel’s vital – and largely forgotten – novel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh.

Michael Haas has been rereading this important work. He notes: ‘Hitler famously justified his murder of Jews by stating that nobody remembered the genocide of Armenians.’

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