Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination / Stefan Ihrig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ihrig, Stefan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938.

Atatürk, Kemal.

National socialism.

Turkey--Relations--Germany.

Turkey.

Germany--Relations--Turkey.

Germany.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue: Leaving "Enverland"

1. Turkish Lessons for Germany: The Turkish War of In de pen dence as a Major Weimar Media Event, 1919-1923

2. "Ankara in Munich": The Hitler Putsch and Turkey

3. Hitler's "Star in the Darkness": Nazi Admiration for Atatürk and His New Turkey

4. The "Turkish Führer": Nazi Hagiography and National Education

5. The New Turkey: Nazi Visions of a Modern Völkisch State

6. The Second World War and Turkey: Another Spain?

Epilogue: First to Stone, Then to Dust

Note on Sources and Historiography

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780674744851

0674744853

9780674735828

067473582X

OCLC:

1024018932