The Third Reich and the Palestine Question

In order to ensure its racial, ideological, & strategic interests, the Hitler regime actively supported the status quo in Palestine & the Middle East during the interwar period. This included the perpetuation of British imperial power in Palestine, the Jewish National Home (not an independent Jewish state) promised by the Balfour Declaration, & the rejection of Arab self-determination & independence. The Third Reich & the Palestine Question is the first comprehensive study of German Palestine policy during the 1930s. Francis R. Nicosia places that policy within the context of historical German interests & aims in Palestine, the Middle East, & Europe from the Wilhelminian era through the Weimar period & the Third Reich. He also provides insight into the broader foreign policy aims & calculations of the Nazi regime throughout the Arab Middle East before World War II. In a new introduction, Nicosia places his ground-breaking research in its proper historical perspective. He reviews some of the recent literature on the history of Nazi Germany & the Holocaust. He also discusses some of the archival materials that have recently become available in the former German Democratic Republic & Soviet Union.