Associated Powers organization
also: Allies, Western allies, Western governments, big four, victors
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Claims (7)
Associated Powers pardoned
The Young Turks book_quoted
“to new Turkish borders, officially recognizing the Ataturk government, abandoning any claim on behalf of the Armenian Republic, and specifically agreed to an amnesty for all idiotists who had been convicted in the earlier trials that actual…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 30:00
Associated Powers carried_out_attack
West Germany host_asserted
“The associated powers blockade of German ports had continued after the armistice, prolonging the extreme food shortages in some German cities and killings of hundreds of others of noncombatants. The blockade of food had been carried out coo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 34:46
Associated Powers targeted_for_regime_change
West Germany host_asserted
“In mid-June 1919, the Associated Powers gave the German government seven days to sign the treaty drawn up at Paris or face another invasion. The German cabinet refused to acquiesce and the ruling coalition collapsed. The German defense mini…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 35:50
Associated Powers targeted_for_regime_change
West Germany host_asserted
“managed to tack together a new government on the basis of French envoy's promise, subsequently retracted, of course, that the war guilt clauses would be cut from the treaty. The Vatican attempted to intervene on Germany's behalf, but withou…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 36:17
Associated Powers ordered_assassination_of
Carl Newman host_asserted
“Germany signed only minutes before the deadline. Over the next several months, the Associated Powers drew up a list of 901 Germans whom they accused of war crimes. In most instances, the offenses were very specific. For example, the British…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 36:46
West Germany covered_up
Associated Powers host_asserted
“and was further accused of shelling the survivors in lifeboats in order to conceal what he had done. But despite the provisions of the recently signed treaty, the German government refused to turn over the suspects or evidence to military c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 37:42
Associated Powers targeted_for_regime_change
Kaiser Wilhelm II host_asserted
“And although the sentences were so inadequate, those who had been convicted were not even made to serve their sentence. They were allowed to escape. Meanwhile, Lansing and Wilson's position prevailed with respects to the trial of the former…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #3 @ 39:14
Mentions (22)
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This one starts out saying that in the end, the delegates of the Paris Peace Conference insisted on including in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles provisions that required the German government to admit responsibility for instigating the war an…
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Tragically, the Armenians could supply an almost unlimited number of accounts of these tragedies. Unlike some war propaganda, most of these stories were true. In the end, the Armenians and their supporters failed to mobilize international s…
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The group that ruled Turkey had settled into Damascus and exercised local control over much of what is today Syria, Jordan, and Israel. In late 1915, while the Turkish efforts to exterminate Armenians were at their height, Jamal, and you sp…
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appears to have acted on the mistaken assumption that saving Armenians was actually a goal. It was an important Allied objective, so he thought. The Russians favored his plan and for a time assured him that the other associated powers would…
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Well, the Armenian people. Jamal afforded the Allies their one great opportunity to subvert the Ottoman Empire from within and to save lives. They let it go. Nor did the Allies exploit his attempted...…
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betrayal of his colleagues for propaganda or intelligence purposes. As far as can be determined, the young Turks never learned of his secret correspondence with the enemy. By the time Paris Peace Conference began, there was widespread senti…
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Dictatorship crumbled as the war drew to a close and a new western-backed Turkish government signed the armistice with the associated powers in late 1918. Two days later, most of the senior IDIAD leaders fled their country for Germany, whic…
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in what is today Iraq. Although many Turks saw these terms as humiliatingly onerous, the first post-war Turkish government agreed to them at the Treaty of Severus, signed in August 1920. That agreement was held at the time as the formal con…
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contributed to an escalating cycle of revenge killings and renewed massacres in Turkey. By the end of 1920, the Kemalists were clearly in the, they had control. Having established a rival government in Ankara, in the center of the country, …
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The Armenian Republic withdrew its promises of aid and protection. Ataturk soon succeeded through force of arms in suppressing Armenia and in establishing a new Turkish government in Ankara. In July of 1923, the Turks and the European allie…
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in the Armenian massacres and has instead in recent years financed a large sophisticated publicity campaign to rewrite history. Dang, that sounds familiar too. As the Western powers sparred over the Middle East oil, a series of events unfol…
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President Wilson, and the rest of the big four at the Paris Conference. Inside Germany, only the radical left favored trials of leaders of the old regime. The German military elite, who were the main targets of the war crimes and war guilt …
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even lukewarm support from their military to avoid a coup, it too resisted cooperation. Most German politicians and press referred to war crimes provision of the Versailles Treaty as the shame paragraphs. The associated powers block, let's …
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The associated powers blockade of German ports had continued after the armistice, prolonging the extreme food shortages in some German cities and killings of hundreds of others of noncombatants. The blockade of food had been carried out coo…
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In mid-June 1919, the Associated Powers gave the German government seven days to sign the treaty drawn up at Paris or face another invasion. The German cabinet refused to acquiesce and the ruling coalition collapsed. The German defense mini…
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managed to tack together a new government on the basis of French envoy's promise, subsequently retracted, of course, that the war guilt clauses would be cut from the treaty. The Vatican attempted to intervene on Germany's behalf, but withou…
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Germany signed only minutes before the deadline. Over the next several months, the Associated Powers drew up a list of 901 Germans whom they accused of war crimes. In most instances, the offenses were very specific. For example, the British…
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and was further accused of shelling the survivors in lifeboats in order to conceal what he had done. But despite the provisions of the recently signed treaty, the German government refused to turn over the suspects or evidence to military c…
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And although the sentences were so inadequate, those who had been convicted were not even made to serve their sentence. They were allowed to escape. Meanwhile, Lansing and Wilson's position prevailed with respects to the trial of the former…
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offensive against moral, as distinct from legal sensibilities. Wilhelm fled to Holland and gained asylum with the tactic cooperation of the British Foreign Office, and other associated powers buried their demands for a trial within months o…
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or even survival, seemed to depend. The pressures against justice came not only from the defendants, but also from a coalition of both victorious and defeated powers. Secretary of State Lansing, again, Dulles' uncle. Actions at Paris and th…
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Money. All of the powers agreed in principle that the perpetrators of war crimes should pay damages or reparations to those they had wronged. But in a war that had resulted in millions dead and crippling injuries, such damages would have be…