Download Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination by Stefan Ihrig PDF

By Stefan Ihrig

ISBN-10: 0674368371

ISBN-13: 9780674368378

Early in his occupation, Adolf Hitler took suggestion from Benito Mussolini, his senior colleague in fascism—this truth is well known. yet an both very important function version for Hitler and the Nazis has been nearly solely overlooked: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of smooth Turkey. Stefan Ihrig’s compelling presentation of this untold tale supplies to rewrite our figuring out of the roots of Nazi ideology and strategy.

Hitler used to be deeply drawn to Turkish affairs after 1919. He not just sought after but in addition sought to mimic Atatürk’s radical building of a brand new kingdom from the ashes of defeat in international struggle I. Hitler and the Nazis watched heavily as Atatürk defied the Western powers to grab executive, and so they modeled the Munich Putsch to a wide measure on Atatürk’s uprising in Ankara. Hitler later remarked that during the political aftermath of the good conflict, Atatürk was once his grasp, he and Mussolini his students.

This was once no fading fascination. because the Nazis struggled in the course of the Nineteen Twenties, Atatürk remained Hitler’s “star within the darkness,” his thought for remaking Germany alongside nationalist, secular, totalitarian, and ethnically specific strains. Nor did it get away Hitler’s become aware of how ruthlessly Turkish governments had handled Armenian and Greek minorities, whom influential Nazis at once in comparison with German Jews. the hot Turkey, or not less than these elements of it that the Nazis selected to determine, turned a version for Hitler’s plans and desires within the years top as much as the invasion of Poland.

Show description

Read or Download Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination PDF

Best turkey books

Insight Guides: Turkey

Perception consultant Turkey is a finished full-colour consultant to the tradition, historical past and folks of this diversified and younger nation. Be encouraged by means of our greatest of Turkey part highlighting unmissable attractions and reviews and extravagant picture positive aspects on themes comparable to Turkish cafés, carpets and kilims and the nice outside.

The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492

Byzantium lasted 1000 years, governed to the top by way of self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural adjustments, but recovered time and again from catastrophe: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, version sorts of the empire reconstituted themselves.

Live and Work in Turkey: Comprehensive Up-to-date, Practical Information About Everyday Life

Turkey is more and more appealing as a spot to dwell and paintings. It has a dynamic economic system, a tender inhabitants, and a desirable, various panorama providing attractive Mediterranean shorelines, ski lodges and antiquities to rival these in Greece. within this consultant attention-grabbing advisor you'll find all you want to learn about: Renting or paying for a estate, and settling in for your new domestic; discovering employment and realizing the operating surroundings; developing a enterprise or making an investment in an latest corporation; Retiring to Turkey; gaining access to future health and welfare prone; learning the language; vacationing round Turkey; and, having fun with your rest time.

Additional info for Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination

Example text

Only Kemal went into action. He declared the sultan and the government in Constantinople removed from power. . Strange that these so often ridiculed and supposedly degenerate Turks can be an example and a lesson to certain other people of how one has to do it in order to protect national honor and völkisch existence against harm. 116 Here is another typical example from the Deutsche Tageszeitung from 1921: The Turks were the only nation that, despite all the weaknesses, despite decades of warfare, found the strength and the idealism not to bend unconditionally to the destructive will of the Entente, but who instead took up their weapons yet again.

46 Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination Long before the final victory, the David-against-Goliath image, among others, was used to underline the importance of the Kemalist success and the fact that there was something to learn from it and from the way it was achieved. Count Vietinghoff-Scheel, in his article “The Significance of the Turkish Victory” in early 1921, offered the fitting sound bite: “The assumption that the Turks’ power of resistance has slackened as a result of the long years of war was erroneous.

The liberal-conservative Vossische Zeitung featured a long essay on the various movements opposing the Entente in the Middle East, especially highlighting Mustafa Kemal Pasha. ”79 From this point onward the belief that the Turks would be infinitely troublesome for the Entente grew stronger. Slowly the conviction that the Turks would even win established itself across the board. 81 By early 1920 this premonition already had blossomed into the conviction that no matter what, the Kemalists would win.

Download PDF sample

Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination by Stefan Ihrig


by Robert
4.0

Rated 4.14 of 5 – based on 40 votes