“These letters speak of death,” is how former German army officer Armin Theophilus Wegner begins his book “The Road of No Return,” recounting the horrors he witnessed in Turkey in 1915-1916. The book you hold in your hands speaks of death. It consists mainly of photographs, letters and diaries of Armin Wegner, testifying to one of the most terrible crimes against humanity - the Armenian genocide, carried out by three successive Turkish governments from the last quarter of the 19th to the first quarter of the 20th century. In fact, the events to which the photographs and texts of this book refer are just a monstrous apotheosis of a long process of extermination of the Armenians, the half-century period of which (1876-1923) legally falls under the crime of genocide, and its roots go deep into the history of coexistence of the Armenians and the Turks and the consequences extend to the present day.