Morgenthau had this to say: The Turks never had the slightest idea of reestablishing the Armenians in this new country. They knew that the great majority would never reach their destination and those who did would either die of thirst or starvation or be murdered by the wild Mohammedan desert tribes. The real purpose of the deportation was robbery and deportation. It really represented a new method of massacre. When Talaat. as Minister of the Interior. gave the death warrant to a whole race. he understood this well. and in his conversations with me. he made no particular attempt to conceal this fact.
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