This book draws on unpublished archival material and an innovative historiographical approach to analyze events and their legacy in comparative perspective.

1. The Pontic Greek Genocide documented by Political Archive of the Pontus National Council / 2. Testimonies of American Charitable and Missionary Organizations on the Genocide of the Pontic Greeks / 3. The evidence of the French commission in Pontus on the anti-hellenic persecutions after the end of the First World War (1919-1920) / 4. Liman von Sanders and the German plans for the Christians in Asia Minor during World War I / 5. Poles in the Ottoman Empire and Their Opinion on the Extermination of Greeks and Armenians, (1909-1918) / 6. Late Recognition of the Assyrian Genocide / 7. Big Secrets, Small Villages. The Collective Memory of the Assyrian Genocide / 8. Why does Turkish Denialism of Genocide against Christians Persist?: An Examination of the Political and Cultural Factors / 9. The "systematic extermination" of the Christian element as presented before the Commission on the Responsibility of the Authors of the War and on Enforcement of Penalties (1919-1920) / 10. The Greek Minority's Fate in the Former Ottoman Empire as a Human-Rights Crisis / 11. Shared Intent in a Collapsing Empire: Pan-Turkism as Mens Rea Evidence of Genocide against Christian Populations in the Late Ottoman Period / 12. Protection of Women and Children in the Near East: the Efforts of the League of Nations