Aghet - Catastrophe - this is what the Armenians call the horrific events that began in the spring of 1915. They are recognized as the first genocide of the 20th century in history. Rolf Hosfeld, Germany's leading expert on these events, vividly and historically accurately describes the genocide of the Armenians, explains the background, and sheds light on a topic that still remains one of the taboos of historiography. Under the eyes of the world public, in the spring and summer of 1915 - in the midst of World War I - the Ottoman Armenians are selected and rounded up by the government in a manner that unmistakably aims to annihilate the Armenian race in the Turkish Empire. This is what the German ambassador in Constantinople cables to Berlin in July 1915. Between 300,000 and 1.5 million people (estimates vary) die.