

The novel was originally published in German in November 1933. Because of this or perhaps in spite of it, the facts and scope of the Armenian Genocide were little known until Werfel's novel, which entailed voluminous research and is generally accepted as based on historical events. This policy, as well as who bore responsibility for it, has been controversial and contested since 1915.

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