Nazi Germany and the Arab World

This book investigates the intent and policy of Nazi Germany in the Arab world from 1933 to 1944.

Francis R. Nicosia (Author)

9781107067127, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 November 2014

316 pages, 19 b/w illus. 5 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.59 kg

'Francis Nicosia's Nazi Germany and the Arab World examines German policies towards the Arab world as a whole, focusing mostly on geopolitics while remaining sceptical regarding the Arab world's reception of German wartime propaganda.' Norman J. W. Goda, European History Quarterly

This book considers the evolving strategic interests and foreign policy intent of the Third Reich toward the Arabic-speaking world, from Hitler's 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 regime's 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, 1933–7
4. The coming of war, 1938–9
5. From the periphery to the center, 1940–1
6. The Axis and Arab independence, 1941–2
7. Collapse and irrelevance, 1943–4
Conclusions.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], Middle Eastern history [HBJF1], European history [HBJD]