Nazism in Syria and Lebanon: The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945
Götz Nordbruch, "Nazism in Syria and Lebanon: The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945 "
English | ISBN: 0415457149 | 2008 | 224 pages | PDF | 1270 KB
English | ISBN: 0415457149 | 2008 | 224 pages | PDF | 1270 KB
The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime. For many contemporary observers in Beirut and Damascus, Nazism not only posed a risk to Europe, but threatened to take root in Arab societies as well.
In the first publication to reconstruct Lebanese and Syrian encounters with Nazism in the context of an evolving local political culture and to base its analysis on a comprehensive review of Arab, French and German sources, Götz Nordbruch examines the reactions to the rise of Nazism in the countries under French mandate, spanning from fascination and endorsement to the creation of antifascist networks.
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