Stefan Ihrig is a distinguished historian and professor whose work focuses on international history and social development. His academic approach combines deep research with an analytical perspective on complex historical processes. He examines pivotal moments in history and their impact on the present day. His expertise lies in understanding how historical events unfolded and how they shape modern society and international relations.
As Stefan Ihrig shows in this first comprehensive study, many Germans sympathized with the Ottomans’ longstanding repression of the Armenians and with the Turks’ program of extermination during World War I. In the Nazis’ version of history, the Armenian Genocide was justifiable because it had made possible the astonishing rise of the New Turkey.
Early in his career, Hitler took inspiration from Mussolini—this fact is widely known. But an equally important role model for Hitler has been neglected: Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, who inspired Hitler to remake Germany along nationalist, secular, totalitarian, and ethnically exclusive lines. Stefan Ihrig tells this compelling story.