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Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination (Hardcover)
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Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination (Hardcover)
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Early in his career, Adolf Hitler took inspiration from Benito
Mussolini, his senior colleague in fascism-this fact is widely
known. But an equally important role model for Hitler and the Nazis
has been almost entirely neglected: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the
founder of modern Turkey. Stefan Ihrig's compelling presentation of
this untold story promises to rewrite our understanding of the
roots of Nazi ideology and strategy. Hitler was deeply interested
in Turkish affairs after 1919. He not only admired but also sought
to imitate Ataturk's radical construction of a new nation from the
ashes of defeat in World War I. Hitler and the Nazis watched
closely as Ataturk defied the Western powers to seize government,
and they modeled the Munich Putsch to a large degree on Ataturk's
rebellion in Ankara. Hitler later remarked that in the political
aftermath of the Great War, Ataturk was his master, he and
Mussolini his students. This was no fading fascination. As the
Nazis struggled through the 1920s, Ataturk remained Hitler's "star
in the darkness," his inspiration for remaking Germany along
nationalist, secular, totalitarian, and ethnically exclusive lines.
Nor did it escape Hitler's notice how ruthlessly Turkish
governments had dealt with Armenian and Greek minorities, whom
influential Nazis directly compared with German Jews. The New
Turkey, or at least those aspects of it that the Nazis chose to
see, became a model for Hitler's plans and dreams in the years
leading up to the invasion of Poland.
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