Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

Jeffrey Herf

Published by Yale University Press 2009

Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

Jeffrey Herf

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300155839

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About this book

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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Jeffrey Herf is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland in College Park.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
A Note on Terminology and Spelling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Defining Anti-Semitism: 1933–1939 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. Growing Contacts, First Broadcasts: 1939–1941 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
4. Propaganda and Warfighting in North Africa and the Middle East in 1941 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5. “Kill the Jews before They Kill You”: Propaganda during the Battles in North Africa in 1942 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
6. “The Jews Kindled This War in the Interest of Zionism”: Propaganda in 1943 as the Tide Turned against the Axis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
7. “The Americans, the British, and the Jews Are All Conspiring against Arab Interests”: Propaganda from 1944 to Spring 1945 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
8. Postwar Aftereffects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 320

eBook

Published: November 30, 2009
ISBN: 9780300155839