Nazi Germany and the Arab World [Paperback]

This book investigates the intent and policy of Nazi Germany in the Arab world from 1933 to 1944.This book investigates the intent and policy of Nazi Germany in the Arab world from 1933 to 1944. It analyzes Germany's support for continued European domination of the Arab states of North Africa and the Middle East and Germany's rejection of truly sovereign Arab states in those regions.This book investigates the intent and policy of Nazi Germany in the Arab world from 1933 to 1944. It analyzes Germany's support for continued European domination of the Arab states of North Africa and the Middle East and Germany's rejection of truly sovereign Arab states in those regions.This book considers the evolving strategic interests and foreign policy intent of the Third Reich toward the Arabic-speaking world, from Hitlers assumption of power in January 1933 to 1944, a year following the final Axis defeat in and expulsion from North Africa in May 1943. It does so within the context of two central, interconnected issues in the larger history of National Socialism and the Third Reich, namely Nazi geopolitical interests and ambitions and the regimes racial ideology and policy. This book defines the relatively limited geopolitical interests of Nazi Germany in the Middle East and North Africa within the context of its relationships with the other European great powers and its policies with regard to the Arabs and Jews who lived in those areas.Introduction; 1. Continuity and departure: imperial and Weimar Germany; 2. Hitler, race, and the world beyond Europe; 3. Germany and the Arab world, 19337; 4. The coming of war, 19389; 5. From the periphery to the center, 19401; 6. The Axis and Arab independence, 19412; 7. Collapse and irrelevance, 19434; Conclusions. Nicosia masterfully captures the tension between the ideological appreciation of European imperial rule over non-Europeans and strategic wartime considerations. As such, his book will be indispensable not only for historians ol£­