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skin was totally scorched. Another saw how a Turk pulled out a baby from the uterus of anArmenian woman and threw it against a wall. 304There were even far more horrifying examples, contended Niepage. They were described innumerous reports from the consuls in Alexandretta, Aleppo, and Mosul and had been sent to theEmbassy. “The consuls estimate that, up till now, probably about one million Armenians havesuccumbed through the last month’s massacres. Of this figure, about the half are women andchildren, who either have been slaughtered or died of hunger.” 305 Establishing once more that“The aim of this deportation is to exterminate the entire Armenian people,” Niepage continuedto describe eyewitness accounts and reports about the massacres, urging the GermanGovernment to intervene. 306Niepage’s testimony was supported by the information in a report written by the GermanConsul in Aleppo, Rössler, which was also published as a pamphlet. Translated from German,the report, dated November 30, 1915, forwarded the description of the deportations, given by theArmenian Sarkis Manukian, a former student at Berlin and Leipzig universities, and now aGerman linguistic teacher in Erzurum. His deportation was as many others: “the men andwomen were separated, and the men were killed. There were no bullets left for them, but theywere butchered, 2,000 individuals a day, with axes and knives.” The Turkish gendarmescoordinated the killings and the Kurds claimed that they were acting on Government orders.Rössler continued the report by describing the sanitary conditions and the transportation ofthousands of deportees by train. 307In 1921, another pamphlet, entitled Ett martyrfolk i det tjugonde århundradet (”A Martyr Nation inthe 20 th Century”), was published by Natanael Beskow, a Swedish preacher, author, artist, andheadmaster. “Of a people of 2 to 2 ½ million, about 1 million have by a methodicalextermination-war been killed through the most frightful cruelties.” 308 Beskow gives a briefbackground of the Armenian history, the Armenian massacres in 1894-96 and the course ofevents of the genocide. He describes how the Armenians in Turkish Armenia were ordered to bedeported, how the men were separated and killed, while the women, children, and the elderlywere pushed towards the Mesopotamian and Syrian deserts under the burning sun. 309 “Accordingto estimates, in the time being there are about 250,000 orphans in Armenia. The number of thosebeing killed or, through sufferings deceased Armenians, as I have already mentioned, is estimatedto about 1 million.” 310 Further on, Beskow writes about the Sèvres Treaty, how Mustafa Kemal’sgovernment has overthrown the government in Constantinople and was now coming along with304 Niepage, 1921, p. 11.305 Niepage, 1921, p. 11.306 Niepage, 1921, p. 12, 18.307 Rössler, 1921, p. 3-5.308 Beskow, 1921, p. 2.309 Beskow, 1921, p. 5.310 Beskow, 1921, p. 8.67