By Faye Berger
“When you begin analyzing discovering Foxholes, you won't have the ability to lay the ebook down. Faye Berger weaves heritage, the current, and the longer term jointly in a so much interesting method. struggle is diverse now. The explanations are a lot an analogous. Enemies can nonetheless develop into associates via the Grace of God. you may be surprised through Faye Berger’s sensitivity.”
— Al Quie, Former Governor of Minnesota, WWII Veteran, and Grandson of a Civil struggle Vet
“Like such a lot of in our international conflict II iteration, Russel Albrecht spoke back the decision of responsibility in 1944 and proudly served our state in a foreign country. basically in his later years did this humble hero proportion his striking tales together with his daughter, Faye Berger. discovering Foxholes is a one of a kind booklet, born from a father’s memories and a daughter’s admiration.”
— Senator Bob Dole, WWII Veteran
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19 Thus, Germany’s ruler accepted von Oppenheim’s proposal. In the event of war, the kaiser decided, Berlin would aid the Ottomans while the sultan would raise a jihad against Germany’s European foes in British-ruled India, French-ruled North Africa, and Russian Asia. Not A Christian Imperial Strategy Figure 4. Max von Oppenheim, the German “Abu Jihad” (“father of jihad”) and mastermind of the jihadization of Islam from 1893 on, sits in his tent, carpeted and hung with texts from the Qu’ran in the style of an Arab chieftain.
20 On August 5, 1914, just three days after the German-Ottoman alliance was concluded, Chief of the German General Staff General Helmuth A Jihad Made in Germany 35 Figure 7. Enver Pasha, Ottoman war minister during World War I, who also unleashed the German-Ottoman jihadization of Islam with a 1914 call for AfroAsian jihad in the colonies of Great Britain, Russia, and France. After the war he briefly joined the Soviet “leftist jihad” in the service of world revolution, but was eventually killed fighting for Central Asian Muslim opponents of the Bolsheviks.
Typical was a 1915 fatwa by Hibat ad-Din Muhammad ash-Shahrastani, translated by Helmut Ritter of the Sixth Ottoman Army in Baghdad and Carl Brockelmann of Halle University. Becker checked the text 42 A Jihad Made in Germany and von Oppenheim’s organization distributed it widely. 50 The fatwa began with a question: “Germans are Christians and now helpers of Muslims. But they are also infidels like the Russians, En glish, Italians, and French. ” Ash-Shahrastani answered, “There are two kinds of infidels.