Wolfgang Gust

Wolfgang Gust (* 1935 in Hanover ) is a German journalist and author.

He studied Romance languages ​​in Freiburg, Bonn and Toulouse ( France) and business administration in Hamburg. From 1965 he was at the news magazine Der Spiegel - first as economic, then foreign editor. From the beginning of 1970 he went as chief correspondent in Paris; In 1977 he was deputy foreign editor, 1981 Head of the MIRROR BOOK. After the book series set Gust was an editor in the series department and author of the series of Nagorno-Karabakh and the genocide. Since 1993 he works as a freelance publicist and writer. So far, the genocide of the Armenians and the empire of the sultans published. A History of the Ottoman Empire, both the Carl Hanser Verlag.

Gust reviewed the 1919 issued by the Protestant theologian Johannes Lepsius files of the German Foreign Office and found that in many documents especially the German responsibility had been covered up in the genocide of the Armenians by omissions and falsifications. He has published in collaboration with his wife in March 2000, the text of the original documents along with an English translation and the various manipulations on the Internet. Three years later he published in the same portal hundreds of other German AA files to genocide. Published in 2005 a selection of the most important documents in the book The genocide of the Armenians in 1915 / 16th The critical review of this written by Hilmar Kaiser sparked a fierce historical controversy, the end of which so far does not seem in sight.

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Works

• The Armenian Genocide: The Tragedy of the oldest Christian nation in the world. Carl Hanser Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3446173730th
• The Empire of the Sultans. A History of the Ottoman Empire. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1995 ISBN 3-446-17374-9.
• The genocide of the Armenians in 1915 / 16th Documents from the Political Archives of the German Foreign Office, Publisher to cleats, 2005, ISBN 3-934920-59-4.