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Source for details on the novel's reception: bautz.de/bbkl/w/werfel.shtml (de)

This page delves upon the incident rather than the novel itself which is fictional. We should move most of the information about the event to the Musa Dagh page. Also, the witness in this page who remarks that they stayed at the mountain for only 40 days damages his own credibility. The resistance at Musa Dagh lasted for 53 days not 40. Werfel selected 40 days because of its biblical significance. --MarshallBagramyan 03:16, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The book was never banned in Germany

MarshallBagramyan, what's your source for this edit? --tickle me 00:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi Tickle me, its from a TIME Magazine article titled "Armenian Epic" and dated back to Dec. 3 1934, when they were first reviewing the book. Here's an excerpt from the article:

Not all his Turks are smoothly smiling villains nor all his Armenians embattled heroes. More than a stirring tale, a passionate defense of a persecuted minority, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh has implications that make it unwelcome in Germany.*

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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

*Not actually banned by the Hitler Government, it is listed as "undesirable," is sold only surreptitiously.

--MarshallBagramyan 23:06, 12 February 2006 (UTC)