Summary Of Nazi Propaganda For The Arab World By Jeffrey Herf

During World War II, Nazi Germany and the extremist leadership of the Arab world collaborated in spreading Nazi-ideology and selected radical traditions of Islam in order to start the Holocaust of 700,000 Jews living in the Middle East. Hitler created this strong connection with Muslim extremists and governments because they shared common ideologies and enemies. They both hated Jews and wanted the British imperial presence out of Palestine and the French out of North Africa. The Middle East and North Africa were not major fronts during World War II and fortunately the implementation of the Holocaust did not extend past Europe. However, the Middle East and North Africa were still important regions for the war’s development and for the Axis powers, whose propaganda targeted the Arabs in various ways. Jeffrey Herf’s book draws on a wide range of English and German-language archival resources in order to shed new light on the Nazi efforts to propagate and fulfill their anti-sematic visions and ideals in the Arab world and how both the Arabs and other Middle Easterners responded to those efforts.
In Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, Herf studies the fundamental reasons for the emergence of anti-Semitism in the Arab world and argues that the simultaneous revival of Islamic hatred of Jews and the pressures of propaganda at the time, allowed the Nazis to spread anti-Semitism across the Middle