Why do Arabs and Indians have such a positive image of Hitler? Anyone knowledgeable on eastern affairs care to explain why Arabs seem to view Hitler in a positive light?

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[–]AidsVictim69 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's principally German opposition to the British empire and support for nationalist anti British movements during that time, although it never really manifested in any material way (and likely would have stopped or even reversed in the event of German victory). The principals of ethnic nationalism are also highly popular in these areas on their own with some political parties like the Syrian Nationalist Party semi-explicitly modeled after the German Nationalist Socialist platform.

[–]Oingo[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Never knew that. Very odd most people in the west would have no realization of this dynamic.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's far more to it than this. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (leader of Palestinian people at the time) spent WW2 inside of Germany. Germany worked with the Arabic liberation movements and were welcomed as liberators when their military men showed up in various Arab countries.

Ba'athism is based on National Socialism, but a pan-Arabic form rather than pan-European. The Syrian Social-Nationalist Party (SSNP) is more of an early NS IE purely German movement. They are purely nationalists for Syrians, whereas Ba'athism represents what Fascism and NS evolved into during the 30s, to be most of a pan-Racial IE entirely European movement.

Post-war SS members and other German veterans continued working with Arab states, particularly Nasser's Egypt and they helped arm the Algerian independence from France.

In India Germany helped Subhas Chandra Bose to liberate India from British rule. As mentioned by others there was an Indian SS legion, there were also muslim ones, mostly made up of Balkan white muslims though, some Arabs did fight on the side of the Axis in the Wehrmacht I think rather than the SS.

The Germans post-war also worked with South American national liberation movements. While the Third Reich was about I'm not sure if they worked with the Irish but they made pro-Irish propaganda (My Life For Ireland).

They were largely seen as anti-capitalist, national liberators around the world. It was only the International Finance (jew controlled) powers that painted them as imperialist maniacs trying to take over the whole world. Ironically the 4 states they fought against Britain, France, America, Soviet Union, all controlled vast empires, basically the entire Earth.

Edit: Just remembered, when I was about 16 I knew some muslim kids, some pakistanis some arabs. They were telling me the holocaust didn't happen but that Hitler was sent by Allah as a punishment for jewish crimes. Funny little story.