A Study Of Nazi Germany’s Broadcasting Activities In The Middle East During World War Ⅱ

After the First World War,the Middle East,as an important strategic energy source,was divided up by the powers and forced to accept the mandate and colonial rule of Britain and France.In the 1930s,with the rise of Nazi Germany,in order to compete for the Middle East and its oil resources,the disintegration of the Anglo-German alliance,the immigration of Jews and the problem of oil supply made Nazi Germany,which was focused on the European continent,glance at the Middle East.,competed with the traditional powers such as Britain and the United States for the right to speak in Arab countries,and started Arabic broadcasts for Middle Eastern countries to spread their political vision and ideology.Arabic broadcasts in Middle Eastern countries,disseminating their political vision and ideology.Arabic broadcasting started in 1939 under the responsibility of Goebbels,Director of the Propaganda Department.The Nazis took advantage of the Arab world’s dissatisfaction with Britain,the United States and the Jews to create international Jewish conspiracy theories to attack allies and incite hatred against the Jews,spreading Nazi values with strong racial prejudice.At the same time,the content of the Arabic broadcasts was oriented towards the strategic goals of Nazi Germany.In the early days of World War II,broadcasting was good at praising Islam and Arabs in a relaxed atmosphere,and packaged its consistent anti-Semitism as an "international Jewish conspiracy theory" against the allies.Nazi Germany created a common enemy.In the latter part of the war,the Nazi army suffered setbacks in Africa and the Soviet Union successively.In order to divert the military pressure on the main battlefield and force the Allies to distract their attention to the Middle East,the Arabic broadcasts became more inflammatory,inciting the Arabs’ anti-Allied uprising and violent murders against Jews.Behavior.Skillful and guided broadcast content transformed distorted Nazi ideology into a popular political identity,created ideological traps for broadcast audiences in the Middle East,and covered up the flaws in its propaganda theory.Facing the broadcasting offensive launched by the Nazis,different strata in Middle Eastern countries,from the elite to the public,had different reactions.Although there are a few pro-Nazi religious leaders and nationalists who tend to rely on Germany for national self-determination and are hostile to the rule of the Allies headed by Britain,they provide support for Nazi Arabic broadcasts.But in general,the vast majority of Middle Eastern countries insist on taking their own national interests as the benchmark,using the Nazis to put pressure on Britain,the United States and the Jews to strive for their own interests,instead of choosing to blindly join forces with the Nazis.Faced with greater pressure to survive,Jews in Middle Eastern countries chose to take a different path.In the 1930s,the change of attitude towards the Middle East and the launch of Arabic broadcasts in the 1940s,the behavior of Nazi Germany fully demonstrated its strategic needs and changes in political situations in the early stages of World War II and during World War II.The different attitudes of Arabic broadcasting are a true reflection of the development of Arab nationalism in the mid-twentieth century and the main political and social needs of this period.As an important case of Nazi foreign propaganda,the Nazi wartime broadcasting activities in the Middle East are an important observation point for understanding the penetration and expansion of Nazism in the region.The development of nationalism under the intensification of religious contradictions reflects typical characteristics of the times and geography.