Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, Jeffrey Herf (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), xiv + 335 pp., cloth 30.00, pbk. 20.00
Nearly two decades ago, at least one scholar of modern German history had concluded that Hitler and those who operated the German military effort and killing program during World War II also had targeted Jews living outside Europe for death. “The final crushing of Axis forces in North Africa,” Gerha...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 149-152 |
| Review of: | Nazi propaganda for the Arab world (New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2010) (McKale, Donald M.)
Nazi propaganda for the Arab world (New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2010) (McKale, Donald M.) |
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| Summary: | Nearly two decades ago, at least one scholar of modern German history had concluded that Hitler and those who operated the German military effort and killing program during World War II also had targeted Jews living outside Europe for death. “The final crushing of Axis forces in North Africa,” Gerhard Weinberg wrote in 1993, “ended all prospects for a German occupation of the British mandate of Palestine and the slaughter of its Jewish community.”1 In November 1941, Hitler had promised Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, that once German armies invaded the Middle East they would ensure “the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcr007 |