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Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh

by Franz Werfel · 1933

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**The Forty Days of Musa Dagh** (German: *Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh*) is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forty_Days_of_Musa_Dagh))

FictionJebel Mūsa (Syria), Defense of, 1915World War, 1914-1918World War, 1914-1918 in fictionMusa Dagh, Defense of, Turkey, 1915 in fictionMusa Dagh, Defense of, Turkey, 1915German languageHistoryPersecutionArmeniansArmenian massacres, 1915-1923Fiction, historical