[6] Ihrig chronicles how the German chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, encouraged the Ottoman rulers resist implementing the Armenian reforms envisioned in the 1878 treaty.

[7] Ihrig covers the 1921 trial of Soghomon Tehlirian for the Assassination of Talat Pasha in Berlin, which raised the profile of the genocide in Germany.

[9][2][10] For many German nationalists in the Weimar Republic, Ihrig writes, "genocide was a 'reasonable,' 'justifiable,' if not unavoidable cost of doing political and military business in the twentieth century".

[3][2] Kirkus Reviews calls the book "A groundbreaking academic study that shows how Germany derived from the Armenian genocide 'a plethora of recipes' to address its own ethnic problems".

[14] Hungarian historian Péter Pál Kránitz states that "Ihrig's findings are significant for international scholars of genocide and the Holocaust".

[6] Vahagn Avedian states that Ihrig conducted "meticulous research" and produced "a highly welcomed contribution to the field of genocide studies".