Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World: With a New Preface

Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World: With a New Preface

Jeffrey Herf

Language: English

Pages: 368

ISBN: 0300168055

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused and little-known archival resources, including the shocking transcriptions of the “Axis Broadcasts in Arabic” radio programs, which convey a strongly anti-Semitic message.

Herf explores the intellectual, political, and cultural context in which German and European radical anti-Semitism was found to resonate with similar views rooted in a selective appropriation of the traditions of Islam. Pro-Nazi Arab exiles in wartime Berlin, including Haj el-Husseini and Rashid el-Kilani, collaborated with the Nazis in constructing their Middle East propaganda campaign. By integrating the political and military history of the war in the Middle East with the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the propagandistic diffusion of Nazi ideology, Herf offers the most thorough examination to date of this important chapter in the history of World War II. Importantly, he also shows how the anti-Semitism promoted by the Nazi propaganda effort contributed to the anti-Semitism exhibited by adherents of radical forms of Islam in the Middle East today.

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2,1943,7:30 p.m., "Talk by Rashid Aly Kilani, Ex-Premier of Iraq, on Bairam," Kirk to Secretary of State, No.1325, Cairo (October 5,1943),4-5, Axis Broadcasts in Arabic ... September 30 to October 5,1943, NACP RG 84, Egypt: Cairo Embassy General Records, 1936- 55,820.00-822.00, entry 2410, box 93. 82. "Anglo-Soviet-American Communique on the Conference in Moscow of the Three For eign Secretaries," FRUS, Diplomatic Papers, 1943, vol. i. General (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,.

America, Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. The most frequently used foreign languages were English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Afrikaans, Russian, and Arabic. By February 1941, German shortwave radio was broadcasting every day 740 minutes to "Asia" and 400 minutes to Africa. Prominent exiled politicians, such as Subhas Chandra Bose from India, Rashid Ali Kilani from Iraq, and Haj Amin el-Husseini, were frequent speakers.' German journalists working on the Arabic broadcasts did not speak Arabic.

Arabic-language broadcasts to the office of Secretary of State Cordell Hull in Washington.4s By April 1942, Kirk had organized a staff of native Arabic speakers, stenographers, and American translators whose task was to produce verbatim English transcripts of the Axis Arabic-language radio broadcasts to the Middle East. He sent these dispatches to Hull's office in the State Department in Washington every week until March 1944, and his successor, Pinkney Tuck, continued to do so until spring 1945.

Intelligence reported that the mood in Cairo was "emphatically hostile to England." "Thousands" attended a large demonstration and cheered Rommel as a great general who would "liberate Egypt from the foreign yoke." The German military High Command ordered the leadership of the Africa Corps to "strengthen the mood of hostility to England in parts of the Egyptian population through intensified propaganda" on the radio and in printed material. Its core theme should be that "the German soldier under.

Allied-mostly American and British, but also Australian, New Zealand, and some French-forces and the considerably reinforced German and Italian armies. In the first two weeks of May, the Allies won a decisive victory in Tunisia. About 275,000 German and Italian soldiers surrendered to the Allied forces; only 800 managed to escape. The defeat on Tunisia in May 1943 brought the Axis military effort in North Africa to an end.' But the propaganda offensive continued with radio broadcasts from.

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