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SUMMARY:Muslims under Nazi rule\, 1941-1945 - Dr David Motadel\, Research 
 Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College\, Cambridge
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CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:At the height of the Second World War\, German troops encounte
 red large Muslim populations in North Africa\, the Balkans\, the Crimea\, 
 and the Caucasus. Nazi officials saw Islam as a powerful force and one hos
 tile to the same enemies as Germany: the British Empire\, the Soviet Union
 \, and Jews. The paper will not only examine Berlin's attempts to promote 
 Nazi Germany as a patron of Islam\, but also show that the realities on th
 e ground were often very complex. In North Africa\, the Balkans\, and on t
 he Eastern front\, German soldiers were confronted with diverse Muslim pop
 ulations\, including Muslim Roma and Jewish converts to Islam.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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