9780674368378-0674368371-Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination

Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780674368378
ISBN-10: 0674368371
Edition: First Edition
Author: Stefan Ihrig
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674368378
ISBN-10: 0674368371
Edition: First Edition
Author: Stefan Ihrig
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination (ISBN-13: 9780674368378 and ISBN-10: 0674368371), written by authors Stefan Ihrig, was published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Germany (European History, Turkey, Middle East History, World History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Germany books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.2.

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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 Atatürk, 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 Atatürk’s radical construction of a new nation from the ashes of defeat in World War I. Hitler and the Nazis watched closely as Atatürk defied the Western powers to seize government, and they modeled the Munich Putsch to a large degree on Atatürk’s rebellion in Ankara. Hitler later remarked that in the political aftermath of the Great War, Atatürk was his master, he and Mussolini his students.

This was no fading fascination. As the Nazis struggled through the 1920s, Atatürk 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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