Jason Bell, PhD, New Brunswick Üniversitesi'nde felsefe profesörüdür. Almanya'da Fulbright Profesörü olarak görev yaptı (Winthrop Bell'in mezun olduğu okul olan Göttingen Üniversitesi'nde) ve Belçika, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ve Kanada'daki üniversitelerde ders verdi. Winthrop Bell'in gizli casusluk belgelerine özel erişim hakkı verilen ilk bilim adamıydı. Kanada'nın New Brunswick şehrinde yaşıyor.
The hope that had made the deprivations of the war bearable, explained the journalist Sebastian Haffner (who experienced the events in Berlin at first hand), was the constant reassurance that Germany was about to win. The shocking revelation that Germany had lost was scarcely understandable. Haffner, who was eleven on the day the Armistice took effect, entered a deep depression. “Where could one find stability and security, faith and confidence, if world events could be so deceptive? If triumph upon triumph led to ultimate disaster, and the true rules of history were revealed only retrospectively in a shattering outcome? I stared into the abyss.” He wasn’t the only one. Adolf Hitler recounted a similar bewilderment at the news, but a more dramatic outcome, as he buried his “burning head in the sheets and pillows."
The conditions for the Ottoman minorities soon changed drastically during the war, when the empire committed genocide against its own Greeks and Armenians.