Armin T. Wegner (October 16, 1886 – May 17, 1978) was a soldier in World War I, a writer and a co-creator of German Expressionism, a political activist for Armenian and Jewish human rights and a victim of Nazi persecution. October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in Leap years). ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machine guns, and poison gas World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, the War of the Nations and... On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ...

He was born in the town of Elberfeld / Rhineland (Wuppertal) in Germany. He enrolled as a volunteer nurse in Poland at the outbreak of World War I, during the winter of 1914-1915, and was bestowed the Iron Cross for assisting wounded under fire. He served in the German Sanitary Corps of the Turkish Army during WWI, following the military alliance of Germany and Turkey. Being his personal caretaker, he traveled with Field Marshall von der Goltz along the Baghdad railroad in Mesopotamia, where he witnessed the Armenian Genocide. The Rhineland (Rheinland in German) is the general name for the land on both sides of the river Rhine in the west of Germany. ... Wuppertal university Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Iron Cross (German: Eisernes Kreuz) is a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia, and later of Germany, which was established by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and first awarded on 10 March 1813. ... Sumerian list of gods in cuneiform script, ca. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

Disobeying orders intended to smother news of the massacres, he gathered information on the Genocide - collected documents, annotations, notes, letters and took hundreds of photographs in the Armenian deporation camps - that later served as visible proof of the Armenians' systematic annihilation. At the Turkish Command's request, Wegner was eventually arrested by the Germans and recalled to Germany. His photographs were confiscated and destroyed, however, he succeed to take out secretly some emulsions in his belt with images depicting the Armenian Genocide.

Wegner protested against the atrocities perpetrated by the Turkish army against the Armenian people in an open letter, which was submitted to Woodrow Wilson, the American President, at the peace conference of 1919. He appealed for the creation of an independent Armenian state. For the rest of his life, the tragedy of Armenian people, to which he had been a witness in the Ottoman Turkey, would haunt him. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). ... For the rock band, see Presidents of the United States of America. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Imperial motto El Muzaffer Daima The Ever Victorious (as written in tugra) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital İstanbul ( Constantinople/Asitane/Konstantiniyye ) Sovereigns Sultans of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca 40 million Area 12+ million km² Establishment 1299 Dissolution October 29, 1923...

In the 1920s Wegner reached the peak of his popularity as a writer and a co-creator of German Expressionism. His book "Five Fingers Over You" made him a celebrity, it foresaw the advent of Stalinism. Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ... Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ...

Right from the beginning he was one of those to protest the Nazi's treatment of the Jews in Germany. He protested publicly against the persecution of the Jews, thus being the only writer in Nazi Germany ever to do so. In 1933 the Gestapo arrested him, a few days after he sent an open letter to Hitler protesting the state-organized boycott against Germany's Jews. He suffered incarceration in seven concentration camps and prisons before he could escape to Italy. 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Deaths Head emblem, often used as the insignia of the Gestapo The â–¶(?) (acronym of Geheime Staatspolizei; secret state police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ... A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ...

Wegner was awarded the Highest Order of Merit by the Federal German Government in 1956. His native city of Wuppertal, awarded him with the prestigious Eduard-Von-der-Heydt prize in 1962. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

A great part of his life was dedicated to the fight for Armenian and Jewish human rights. He was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in Israel in 1967, the next year he received an invitation to Armenia from the Catholicos of All Armenians. He was awarded with the Order of Saint Gregory the Illuminator. Yad Vashem memorial sculpture Yad Vashem (יד ושם) is Israels official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Memorial Law passed by the Knesset, Israels parliament. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Catholicos (plural Catholicoi) is a title used by the head bishop of any of certain Eastern churches. ...

At the age of 92 He died in Rome. Part of his Ashes were taken to Armenia in 1996. A posthumous state funeral took place near the Armenian Genocide Monument's perpetual flame. City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000...

The Armin T. Wegner Award was created in 2003 by the Arpa Foundation for Film, Music and Art as a humanitarian honor. It is awarded to motion pictures that contribute to the fight for human rights and social conscience, the struggle Armin T. Wegner had devoted his life. The acronym ARPA has several meanings: It is the former abbreviation of a U.S. military organization now known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). ...