Viktor Pietschmann

He joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in 1932 and remained a member until the end of World War II.

In 1905, Pietschmann befriended zoologist Franz Steindachner and became his assistant in the fish collection of the Museum of Natural History in Vienna.

[8] When Turkish soldiers demanded the Armenian family once more, Pietschmann and Schlimme confronted them with guns and thus secured a passage for themselves out of Bayburt, headed towards Erzincan.

[8] Upon arrival in Erzincan, the Armenian family was apprehended and stationed in a local prison under the pretext of concealing weapons in their belongings.

[5] This was confirmed by Schlimme's earlier report, in which he described those sent to the Kemah gorge as mostly hungry and half-naked women and children.

It will end all your fairy-tales, all the beliefs in a beautiful, warm, green, friendly and cheerful world.Pietschmann and the others reached the port city of Trabzon, where they departed for Constantinople.

The photos were held in the archives of the Deutsche Bank in Vienna until they were discovered in 2007 by Artem Ohandjanyan, an ethnic Armenian resident of Austria.

In his first book, published in 1927 entitled Unter Eis und Palmen (Under Ice and Palms), Pietschmann recalls his travels and writes extensively about the violence suffered by the Armenian deportees.

[9] Pietschmann's second publication, entitled Durch kurdische Berge und armenische Städte (Through Kurdish Mountains and Armenian Cities) was published in 1940.

[9] After the death of Franz Steindarcher on 10 December 1919, Pietschmann became the curator of the fish collection at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, a position he held until 1946.