Two war years in Constantinople

The author, a German correspondent resident in Constantinople for roughly two years during the war, offers candid sketches combining eyewitness reportage and moral critique of German influence on the Young Turkish regime. He documents mass persecutions, wartime campaigns and political maneuvers, the city's economic collapse, requisitions and profiteering, and the failures of propaganda such as the attempted holy war. Interwoven are assessments of German diplomatic and journalistic ethics, accusations of complicity in atrocities, and reflections on the social and military tensions that shaped daily life in the Ottoman capital.