"When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact."
Henry Morgenthau Sr. · 1918
From Morgenthau's 1918 memoir, summarising his 1915 dispatches and meetings. Frequently cited as the clearest contemporaneous Western diplomatic statement that the deportations were intended as extermination.