article_snippet.sent: Wegner, a volunteer military nurse, set up clandestine mail routes with foreign consulates and embassies to get many hundreds of notes, annotations, documents, letters and photographs of the Armenian deportation camps to Germany and the United States.
article_snippet.sent: He did so in defiance of strict orders from the Turkish and German authorities aimed at preventing any evidence of the horrors of the 'genocide' reaching the outside world.
article_snippet.sent: But He ruse was discovered and He was arrested by the German authorities and put to serve in cholera wards in Baghdad at the request of the Turkish command.
article_snippet.sent: There He fell seriously ill, and German-born Wegner left for Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) in November 1916.
article_snippet.sent: Hidden in He belt were He photographic plates, and those of other German officers, with images of the Armenian massacre to which He had been a witness.
article_snippet.sent: German-born Wegner fearlessly documented the horror with German-born Wegner camera just like Elder, who took this image of an Armenian refugee (right)
article_snippet.sent: German-born Wegner captioned the image on the right: 'Fleeing from death.
highlights_snippet.sent: Wegner documented the unimaginable suffering Wegner witnessed through horror pictures .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Wegner used secret mail routes to sneak images out but was caught by German police and sent to cholera ward .
  