German Reprisals
The two countries in which the German Reprisals took place.
What are France and Belgium?
This key player in WW1 not only committed the Armenian genocide, but also heavily contributed to battles such as the Caucasus campaign
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The naval blockade during ww1 killing over 400,000 civilians happened in this country.
What is Germany?
This empire carried out the Serbian Death March, forcing thousands of Serbs on brutal winter marches.
What is Austria-Hungary
A breach of internationally agreed laws outlined in treaties
What are war crimes
The date range the reprisals took place
What is from August to October 1914
The number of deaths during the Armenian Genocide
1,000,000-1,500,000
The main cause of death during the allied blockade
What is starvation?
The Serbian Death March was primarily inflicted on these two groups of Serbs, both of whom suffered mass starvation and exposure.
Who are civilians and prisoners of war?
This deadly weapon used by both sides despite rules against it caused burns, blindness and lung damage
What is chlorine gas?
What is 6500 people
This country has consistently refused to officially recognize the 1915–16 Armenian deportations and killings as a genocide
What is Turkey?
This neutral country was the biggest food supplier to Germany in 1915
What is the Netherlands?
This deadly combination of conditions, created intentionally by Austro-Hungarian forces, caused most of the deaths during the marches.
What are starvation, freezing temperatures, and exhaustion?
This 1949 treaty, ratified by all UN member states, requires countries to prosecute war criminals themselves or allow international tribunals to step in.”
What are the Geneva Conventions?
The war crime committed in Leuvan, Belgium affecting around 60,000
What is Deportation for forced labour
Many Armenians died during forced marches from Eastern Anatolia to this desert region
What is the Syrian Desert
The Allied Blockade sparked these all over Germany in 1918, part of the reason for the collapse of Kaiser's administration.
What are revolutions/uprisings?
Serbs were marched toward this region, where many died before reaching the camps intended to imprison them.
What is Austria (or the interior of the Austro-Hungarian Empire)?
Established in 2002, this court prosecutes individuals for war crimes when national courts cannot or will not.
What is the International Criminal Court (ICC)?
The City in Belgium where around 250 people were taken hostage and 150 were executed
What is Aarschott
On this day many head leaders of the Ottoman Empire responsible for the genocide were executed
April 24, 1915
After the potato failure combined with the food blockade of 1916, this root vegetable sustained much of the German population for the winter between 1916 to 1917.
What are Swedish turnips?
Historians classify the Serbian Death March as a war crime because it violated this major international wartime rule protecting prisoners and civilians.
What is the Hague Convention (laws of war prohibiting inhumane treatment of POWs and civilians)?
These post–World War II tribunals in Europe and Asia were the first major international trials for war crimes.”
What are the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials?