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Nazis am Nil – und ihre Verbindungen nach Prag
Nazis on the Nile - and their connections to Prague
Event by: Collegium Carolinum, Německý historický ústav, Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa - GWZO, Prager Vorträge, GWZO Prague FLÚ
Location: Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, Valentinská 91/1, Praha 1
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The Collegium Carolinum,
the German Historical Institute Warsaw and
the platform GWZOpragueFLÚ invite
in collaboration with the Institut Terezínské iniciativy
to the lecture by
< br/>DR. ULRIKE BECKER (AACHEN)
Nazis on the Nile – and their connections to Prague
on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 5:00 p.m.
The lecture will take place at Valentinská 91/1, 3rd floor and will be broadcast via Zoom. If you are interested in the link, please contact [email protected].
West German relations with Egypt in the post-war period were shaped by actors who were in their mental orientations and political beliefs were shaped by the legacies of National Socialism. Officials from the old Foreign Office, who had helped shape anti-Western and anti-Semitic policies during the Second World War, influenced the federal government's political positioning in the conflict between Egypt and Israel in the context of the Cold War. But non-state actors, such as former National Socialists and Wehrmacht generals, as well as members of the National Socialist arms elite, also played a central role in shaping German-Egyptian relations in the post-war period. A former SS leader also played a decisive role, who controlled the expropriated Czech armaments industry for the “Reichswerke Hermann Göring” during the Second World War. Some of the German armaments experts who built fighter planes and missiles for Egypt in the 1960s also had a connection to Prague as Sudeten Germans. Self-identified as “expelled people,” some of them in Egypt identified with the fate of the Palestinians. The lecture highlights the extent to which German-Egyptian relations were shaped by the Nazi past and how a transformed form of anti-Semitism emerged after the Second World War.
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Ulrike Becker studied history and literature in Hamburg and received his doctorate at the University of Jena on German-Egyptian relations in the post-war period. Her dissertation was published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag under the title “Nazis on the Nile – post-war West German-Egyptian relations in the shadow of National Socialism”. She works as head of research at the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin (MFFB), where she develops concepts for educational work critical of anti-Semitism and is responsible for research and political advice. Since 2023 she has been a research fellow at the Center for Anti-Semitism and Racism Studies (CARS) at the Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia (katho) in Aachen.
the German Historical Institute Warsaw and
the platform GWZOpragueFLÚ invite
in collaboration with the Institut Terezínské iniciativy
to the lecture by
< br/>DR. ULRIKE BECKER (AACHEN)
Nazis on the Nile – and their connections to Prague
on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 5:00 p.m.
The lecture will take place at Valentinská 91/1, 3rd floor and will be broadcast via Zoom. If you are interested in the link, please contact [email protected].
West German relations with Egypt in the post-war period were shaped by actors who were in their mental orientations and political beliefs were shaped by the legacies of National Socialism. Officials from the old Foreign Office, who had helped shape anti-Western and anti-Semitic policies during the Second World War, influenced the federal government's political positioning in the conflict between Egypt and Israel in the context of the Cold War. But non-state actors, such as former National Socialists and Wehrmacht generals, as well as members of the National Socialist arms elite, also played a central role in shaping German-Egyptian relations in the post-war period. A former SS leader also played a decisive role, who controlled the expropriated Czech armaments industry for the “Reichswerke Hermann Göring” during the Second World War. Some of the German armaments experts who built fighter planes and missiles for Egypt in the 1960s also had a connection to Prague as Sudeten Germans. Self-identified as “expelled people,” some of them in Egypt identified with the fate of the Palestinians. The lecture highlights the extent to which German-Egyptian relations were shaped by the Nazi past and how a transformed form of anti-Semitism emerged after the Second World War.
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Ulrike Becker studied history and literature in Hamburg and received his doctorate at the University of Jena on German-Egyptian relations in the post-war period. Her dissertation was published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag under the title “Nazis on the Nile – post-war West German-Egyptian relations in the shadow of National Socialism”. She works as head of research at the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin (MFFB), where she develops concepts for educational work critical of anti-Semitism and is responsible for research and political advice. Since 2023 she has been a research fellow at the Center for Anti-Semitism and Racism Studies (CARS) at the Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia (katho) in Aachen.