Nazis: Sowing divisions
Amerasia; a Review of America and the Far East - Volume 7 - 1943 - Page 84-85 - (Contributor, Philip Jacob Jaffe) Amerasia, Incorporated, 1943
THE AXIS AND THE MOSLEM WORLD
Nazi propaganda also promoted race-consciousness among the members of the Arab, Iranian, and Turanian (that is, Turkish) races, occasionally adding ideas of Pan-Islamic expansion into Central Asia against Soviet Russia. In countries of mixed populations, the Nazis exploited conflicts that had been previously utilized by the older imperialisms: between Moslems and Hindus in India, between the Moslems of Syria and the Christians of neighboring Lebanon, between Arabs and Jews in Palestine. They also organized, financed and armed most of the anti-Semitic and anti-British terroristic activities in Palestine and elsewhere.
Personnel of the German Propaganda Machine To carry out these widespread campaigns and to prepare further infiltrations for their ultimate objectives, the Nazis needed a numerous, well-skilled and disciplined personnel, both German and native...
Hitler's top ranking diplomat on the spot was Dr. Fritz Grobba, Minister to Iraq and Saudi Arabia, who had served with the ...
Another European outlet was the Pan-Arab Committee in Geneva, set up by the Syrian Emir Chekob Arslan with German Italian assistance.
The German-Islam Association in Berlin functioned as coordinator of various groups, including the Committee for the Defense of the Arab Maghreb (French North Africa), the Union for the Liberation of Islam, the Arabian Club, and the Moslem Community of Berlin. The Nazis even directed a considerable number of their young men to embrace the Mohammedan faith. In the Islamic countries themselves, a rich variety of organizations served Hitler's grand strategy, although in those countries personalities ...
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