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allowed to go unchecked. Not much was done to stop them, but at least Germany made sure thatforeign representatives were informed of Germany’s disapproval of the Turkish plans.The day after, on July 15, Anckarsvärd dispatched yet another report regarding the Armenianmassacres, rendering information he had received from “a respected, in Turkish Government’sservice standing Armenian.” The Armenian had expressed his views about the involvement ofsome twenty or thirty persons in a conspiracy initiated by, among others, the former TurkishAmbassador to Stockholm, Sherif Pasha, aimed at starting a revolution in Turkey. This was thereason why several hundred Armenians were arrested and executed. At the end of his three pagesdispatch Anckarsvärd made the following note:The Armenian Patriarch has asked the Justice and Culture Minister, whether the intention is toannihilate the entire Armenian nation, in which case he was ready to start a movement to organisea mass emigration to e.g. South America. In this way the Turks would get rid of the Armeniansand they will suffer somewhat less then now. 180This suggestion was quite similar to the Nazi’s Madagascar-plan. 181On July 22, Anckarsvärd informed his Foreign Ministry that it was not only the Armenianswho were subject to persecutions, but the Greeks now also faced the same fate. The Greekchargé d’affaires had labelled the deportation decree for the Greeks as “nothing else than aquestion of extermination-war against the Greek nation in Turkey.” 182On August 18, The Swedish Ambassador notified Stockholm about a new German protestagainst the ongoing massacres. News was received about “unbelievable cruelties,” and that thedeported former Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament, Zohrab, had died, “probably ofanything but natural causes.” The German Ambassador’s recent note contained a “much moreserious tone,” pointing out that Germany can not passively witness…how Turkey, through the Armenian persecutions, was going downhill, morally and economically.Furthermore, it was protested against Porte’s course of actions, based on which her alliedGermany becomes suspected of approving these and, finally, Germany renounces anyresponsibility for the consequences. 183Later, Anckarsvärd received a copy of the above mentioned German note, dated August 9. Thenote stated that over half a million Armenians had disappeared, been killed, or died as a result ofdiseases and hunger. “The six so-called Armenian provinces are as good as totally emptied of atleast its Armenian-Catholic Armenians. The cruelties have been less towards the Roman-Catholicand Protestant Armenians.” Anckarsvärd’s dispatch continues:It is obvious that the Turks are taking the opportunity to, now during the war, exterminate[utplåna] the Armenian nation so that when the peace comes no Armenian question longer exists.180 RA, UD, nr. 145, July 15, 1915.181 For the Madagascar Plan see Browning, 2004, p. 81-83.182 RA, UD, nr. 155, July 22, 1915.183 RA, UD, nr. 170, August 18, 1915.42