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Nazism in Syria and Lebanon : the ambivalence of the German option, 1933-1945 / Gotz Nordbruch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nordbruch, Götz.
- Series:
- SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East.
- SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National socialism--Syria.
- National socialism.
- National socialism--Lebanon.
- Syria--Foreign relations--Germany.
- Syria.
- Germany--Foreign relations--Syria.
- Germany.
- Lebanon--Foreign relations--Germany.
- Lebanon.
- Germany--Foreign relations--Lebanon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 reacti
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on transcription; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Struggles for a new order: The rise of the Nazi regime and the Levantine mandates (1933-1936); 3 Nazism and the Levant - Nazism in the Levant: Between treaty negotiations and the Second World War (1936-1939); 4 Repercussions of the Second World War: Facing the Axis in the Levant (1939-1941); 5 Nazism in retreat: The fading of an option and the battle for independence (1941-1945); 6 The Levant in May 1945: The defeat of Nazism and hopes for independence; 7 Conclusion; Notes
- BibliographyIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-200) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-10560-6
- 1-281-93195-0
- 9786611931957
- 0-203-88856-1
- 9780203888568
- OCLC:
- 437241577
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