NSDAP politcal, cultural, and racial views on Turks

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NSDAP politcal, cultural, and racial views on Turks

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Post by Novelbro1 » 08 Jan 2017, 21:58

Can maybe someone answer these questions for me: What were the Germans'-the Nazis that is-views on the Turkish? What did they classify them on the racial basis? And were there any Turkish victims in the Nazi persecutions?

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Re: NSDAP politcal, cultural, and racial views on Turks

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Post by Mary Jane » 27 Jan 2017, 20:49

Nazis did not set a particular view concerning especially the Turkish. However, the case is I guess how the Turks (and back then Turkey) could be evaluated under their already set politics and world view...

Check these out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2 ... ssion_Pact
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php? ... 0674368378

Hitler saw Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in a favourable light… They wanted Turkey at war on their side as an ally. Hitler had written a letter to the then president of Turkey, Ismet Inonu, the request though was rejected.

As for the issue of race: Turkish people originate from Central Asia but they have mixed with many other ethnicities along the way. By the Nazis' definition, they are absolutely "non-aryan".

Yes, there is a small number of Turkish people who lost their lives in the concentration camps. Actually, about 7 years ago Germany paid a large sum of money as per compensation to the decendants of a Turkish war prisoner (who was apparently hold in one of the camps for a while and survived).


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