Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz

Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz is a historian of the Middle East and German Middle East policy. He is the author of four books and the editor of ten others, including Germany and the Middle East, 1871-1945.

Publications by Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz on Through the Eyes of the Mufti: The Essays of Haj Amin by Zvi Elpeleg

May 9, 2012

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz on Through the Eyes of the Mufti: The Essays of Haj Amin by Zvi Elpeleg

May 4, 2012

Wolfgang Schwanitz on The Jewish Factor in the Relations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union 1933-1941, by Yosef Govrin

November 13, 2010

Nazis, Jews, and Soviets
The Jewish Factor in the Relations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union 1933-1941, by Yosef Govrin, Vallentine Mitchell, 2009. Reviewed by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz  Read More »

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz on Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald

April 23, 2010

America and the Third Reich
Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945, edited by Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg, Indiana University Press, 2009, 359 pp.
Reviewed by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz  Read More »

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz on Nazis on the Run: How War Criminals Escaped Overseas via Italy

April 16, 2010

Nazis on the Run
Nazis auf der Flucht. Wie Kriegsverbrecher über Italien nach Übersee entkamen (Nazis on the Run: How War Criminals Escaped Overseas via Italy), by Gerald Steinacher, StudienVerlag, 2008, 380 pp. [German]
Reviewed by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz  Read More »

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz on Die Deutschen und der Iran. Geschichte und Gegenwart einer verhängnisvollen

April 13, 2010

Germans, Nukes, and Mullahs
Die Deutschen und der Iran. Geschichte und Gegenwart einer verhängnisvollen
Freundschaft (The Germans and Iran: The History and Present Status of a Fateful Friendship), by Matthias Küntzel, Siedler, 2009, 320 pp. [German]
Reviewed by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz  Read More »

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz on Nazism in Syria and Lebanon. The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933-1945

October 19, 2009

Hitler in the Levant: How Arabs Reacted to the Third Reich in Syria and Lebanon
Nazism in Syria and Lebanon. The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933-1945 by Götz Nordbruch, Routledge, 2009, 209 pp.
Reviewed by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz  Read More »

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz on Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam, by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann

May 20, 2009

A Mosaic on the Mufti’s Islam
Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam, by David G. Dalin and John F. Rothmann, New York: Random House, 2008, 230 pp.
Reviewed by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz  Read More »

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz on Haj-Amin el-Husseini and National-Socialism, by Jennie Lebel, translated by Paul Münch from Serbian, Belgrade: Čigoja štampa

May 11, 2009

The Mufti of Jerusalem
Haj-Amin el-Husseini and National-Socialism, by Jennie Lebel, translated by Paul Münch from Serbian, Belgrade: Čigoja štampa, 2007, 374 pp.
Reviewed by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz  Read More »