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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Adolf Hitlers leuchtender Stern
Die deutsche Rechte war nach dem Abschluss des Versailler Vertrags, der die deutsche Schuld am Ersten Weltkrieg festgeschrieben hatte, von einem wahren Türkenfieber erfasst. Der türkische Befreiungskampf diente der noch winzigen Nazipartei in ihrer Gründungsphase als Leitbild.
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Atatürk in the Nazi imagination - ZfL Berlin
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 …
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.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.