Von Wangenheim, the German ambassador to Ottoman Turkey in 1915 and his Austrian counterpart (Pallavicini) communicated to the [Sublime] Porte their feelings that the indiscriminate mass deportation [of Armenians], especially when accompanied by pillaging and massacres, created a very bad impression abroad, especially in the United States, and this adversely affected the interests that Germany and Turkey had in common.
Von Wangenheim, the German ambassador to Ottoman Turkey in 1915 and his Austrian counterpart (Pallavicini) communicated to the [Sublime] Porte their feelings that the indiscriminate mass deportation [of Armenians], especially when accompanied by pillaging and massacres, created a very bad impression abroad, especially in the United States, and this adversely affected the interests that Germany and Turkey had in common.