The Great Crime: A Podcast History of the Armenian Genocide
History Podcasts
The Great Crime is a podcast history of the Armenian Genocide, taking an in-depth look at the extermination of the Armenian people from 1915 to 1923. The series is open and accessible to everyone, whether you're familiar with the subject or totally unaware of this often forgotten, misunderstood, and fundamentally tragic saga.
Location:
New Zealand
Description:
The Great Crime is a podcast history of the Armenian Genocide, taking an in-depth look at the extermination of the Armenian people from 1915 to 1923. The series is open and accessible to everyone, whether you're familiar with the subject or totally unaware of this often forgotten, misunderstood, and fundamentally tragic saga.
Twitter:
@thegreatcrime
Language:
English
Contact:
0064275583848
Episodes
Epilogue: When We Dead Awaken
11/1/2020
After six long years, When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand, and the Armenian Genocide is finally here… https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/when-we-dead-awaken-australia-new-zealand-and-the-armenian-genocide-9780755600311/
Duration:00:21:55
Episode 40: Reflections
1/27/2020
If The Great Crime has been for anything at all, it is for comprehension, for greater understanding, and to honour the dead who cannot speak.
Duration:00:39:18
Episode 39: One Hundred Winters
1/20/2020
The centenary of the Armenian Genocide was a momentous anniversary. A month of memory, pain, quiet vows of remembrance – and controversy.
Duration:00:36:30
Episode 38: A History of Histories
11/11/2019
Within forty years, the Armenian Genocide went from being a fringe, controversial topic, to a deep and broad school of historical inquiry.
Duration:00:26:26
Episode 37: An Oracle
10/21/2019
“In the end, it is not that Turkish society knows the truth but still denies it, it is defending what it knows to be the truth.”
Duration:00:23:57
Episode 36: The Last Border
10/13/2019
To this day, the border between Turkey and Armenia remains closed – a legacy of Soviet Union, the war over Karabakh, and the Genocide.
Duration:00:34:49
Episode 35: Denial
9/15/2019
Denial of the Armenian Genocide is about the guarding the Turkish state, and protecting the myths Turks tell themselves about the past.
Duration:00:32:40
Episode 34: Recognition and Revenge
9/8/2019
In 1965, fifty years of pain and silence exploded into a movement – a push to see the Armenian Genocide recognised by the world.
Duration:00:23:57
Episode 33: The Principles of Justice, Part II
6/11/2019
In the bloody wake of the Armenian Genocide, at the horrifying height of the Holocaust, Raphael Lemkin introduced a new word and a new concept to the world: genocide.
Duration:00:43:42
Episode 32: Nemesis
6/5/2019
In 1921, after months of careful planning, Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talât Paşa, architect of the Armenian Genocide. This is the story of that vengeful mission: Operation Nemesis.
Duration:00:45:14
Episode 31: Year Zero
5/28/2019
Turkey was governed by a brutal dictatorship for a generation - an authoritarian regime that built a nation from scratch, but destroyed all traces of the past.
Duration:00:34:03
Episode 30: Beginning and End
5/21/2019
Today, the Ottoman Empire falls. In the closing months of 1922, it was brought to its knees, not by foreign powers as had long been expected, but from within.
Duration:01:57:29
Episode 29: Homeland, Part II
4/30/2019
Under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, a new Nationalist movement rises from the ashes of the CUP – a challenge to the occupation, and the thousands of genocide survivors trying to return home.
Duration:00:34:33
Episode 28: A Golden Chain of Mercy
4/24/2019
In the wake of the catastrophe, an astonishing global humanitarian movement was created to bring relief to a starving population. This is the story of Near East Relief, and their attempt to bring the Armenian people back from the dead.
Duration:00:32:25
Episode 27: The Principles of Justice
4/16/2019
The extraordinary military tribunals of 1919 brought executioner and victim face to face once again. Could justice be done for the Armenians?
Duration:00:38:43
Episode 26: The Twelfth Point
4/8/2019
As the Allies began drawing up plans to partition the Ottoman Empire, furious debates raged in parliament about what had happened to the Armenians.
Duration:00:32:46
Episode 25: I Shall Bear Witness
3/31/2019
When confronted with the horrors of the Armenian Genocide, some people refused to stand by. They chose to disobey their governments and commanders. They chose to rescue Armenians from destruction, and bore witness to their plight.
Duration:00:24:29
Episode 24: The Question of German Complicity
3/23/2019
What did the Germans know about what their Ottoman allies were doing during the First World War? Did diplomats cover up the killing of Armenians? Were soldiers implicated in mass murder? This episode explores the question of German complicity.
Duration:00:34:33
Episode 23: These Black Days
3/19/2019
It was supposed to be the war to end all wars. But as Allied troops poured into the Ottoman Empire in November 1918, the CUP were already making plans to defend the state from partition.
Duration:00:32:02
Episode 22: An Untimely Birth
3/10/2019
In May 1918, under threat of annihilation, the first Republic of Armenia in the history of the world was declared. But what a paltry declaration it was: the “untimely birth of a sick child.”
Duration:00:32:35