John Elder and Armin Wegner both documented the unimaginable suffering they witnessed through horror pictures . Wegner used secret mail routes to sneak images out but was caught by German police and sent to cholera ward . Helped build case against Turkish government which still denies killing of up to 1.5million Western was genocide . As world marks 100 years since the atrocities many Armenians governments including the US still do not use the word .
John Elder and Armin Wegner both documented the unimaginable suffering they witnessed through horror pictures . Wegner used secret mail routes to sneak images out but was caught by German police and sent to cholera ward . Helped build case against Turkish government which still denies killing of up to 1.5million Armenians was genocide . As world marks 100 years since the atrocities many Western governments including the US still do not use the word .