A Mosque in Munich

For The Record #721

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Authored by Wall Street Jour­nal reporter Ian John­son, A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA and the Rise of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in the West is essen­tial to under­stand the polit­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal back­ground of con­tem­po­rary Islamism, its Nazi and fas­cist roots, in par­tic­u­lar.  Titled after, and drawn from, this impor­tant new book, this pro­gram details the oper­a­tions of Ger­hard von Mende, a Baltic Ger­man who presided over the use of Soviet Mus­lims as oper­a­tives for the Third Reich’s Ost­min­is­terium. (FTR #518 draws on a Wall Street Jour­nal arti­cle by John­son, which pre­views this mar­velous volume.)

Build­ing on an activ­ity base begun well before the Sec­ond World War, von Mende uti­lized mem­bers of the Prometheus net­work on behalf of the Third Reich and, later, for the Fed­eral Repub­lic of Germany.

Assid­u­ously recruited by U.S. intel­li­gence, von Mende refused work for the Amer­i­cans (who cov­eted his Soviet emi­gre net­works, the Mus­lims in par­tic­u­lar.) Instead von Mende reca­pit­u­lated his Third Reich net­works for the Fed­eral Repub­lic of Ger­many, mobi­liz­ing them under the stew­ard­ship of Nazi war crim­i­nal Theodor Ober­lan­der, forced to resign his posi­tion as a West Ger­man cab­i­net min­is­ter when his wartime record came to light. Read more »

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