Fritz Bronsart von Schellendorf

Bronsart von Schellendorf as colonel in October 1912

Friedrich (Fritz) Bronsart von Schellendorf (1864–1950) was a German officer and politician. He was the chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army and was one of the many German military advisors *igned to the Ottoman Empire. He replaced Otto Liman von Sanders who was *ogned to the Aegean region following disagreements with Enver Pasha. He was instrumental drafting initial war plans for the Ottoman Army. Some historians consider Bronsart von Schellendorf to have been complicit in the Armenian genocide. He was an ardent supporter of Hitler during 1930s also.

Schellendorf's comments in 1919:

Like the Jew, the Armenian outside his homeland is like a parasite, absorbing the wellbeing of the country in which he is established. This also results in hatred that has been directed against him in a medieval manner as an unwanted people, and has led to his murder

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