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Armenian Genocide: The Trial That Defined Crimes Against Humanity
In the spring of 1921, a quiet courtroom in Berlin became the stage for a historic reckoning. Soghomon Tehlirian, an Armenian survivor, stood trial for assassinating Talaat Pasha, the architect of the Armenian Genocide. This episode explores how Tehlirian’s defense transformed a murder case into a global indictment of the Ottoman Empire’s systematic destruction of its Armenian citizens. By presenting detailed evidence of massacres, deportations, and state-sponsored violence, lawyer Paul Levy forced the world to confront the scale of the atrocities. Although Tehlirian was acquitted, the trial…
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