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Caricature in the British satirical magazine “Punch” from 1916 about the atrocities of the Armenian genocide.

From: Hirschfeld, Magnus and Gaspar, Andreas: Sittengeschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges, 1st edition, Leipzig/Vienna 1930, Vol. 2, 293

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