"The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
The roots of conflict in the Middle East go back to the 'half-mad imperial enterprise' of Germany's last Kaiser Wilhelm II, finds George Walden
In 2002, a commentator in the Cairo newspaper Al-Akhbar wrote of Hitler and the Holocaust in terms that Iran's President Ahmadinejad might envy: 'If only you had done it, brother, if only it had really happened, so that the world could sigh in relief!' Sean McMeekin's book helps us understand how such a pearl of murderous mendacity could ever have been uttered. Islamic ties to National Socialism can be traced back as far as Kaiser 'Hajji' Wilhelm II (German emperor from 1888-1918) who, for not especially religious reasons, became infatuated with the Muslim world."
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