Davud Monshizadeh

[[File:Davud Monshizadeh.jpg|thumb|165px|Monshizadeh, Hitler simp and wannabe.]]
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'''Davud Monshizadeh''' {{lived|1914|1989}} was an [[Iran]]ian [[Neo-Nazi]] and the founder of the National Socialist Workers Party of Iran ([[SUMKA]]).<ref>[https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/11622379 Davud Monshizadeh] ''En-Academic.com''</ref> He was a supporter of [[Nazism]] during and after [[World War II]]. Before joining the [[SS]] and founding SUMKA, he was a professor in [[Sweden]], specializing as a scholar in Iranian studies and had a minor contribution to the study of Iranian linguistics, an activity he continued after the war once he returned to Sweden as a university scholar.

Moshizadeh's party, SUMKA, was ultranationalist and isolationist, opposing [[communism]], [[capitalism]], and foreign influence from western powers.<ref>[https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/docs/Doc%2021%20-%201953-00-00%20144%20propaganda%20-%20spy%20service.pdf Doc 21 - 1953-00-00 144 propaganda - spy service.pdf]</ref> Monshizadeh and SUMKA also supported the [[Shah]] and opposed [[Mossadegh]] and his secular reforms, with some critics of the late Shah alleging that he and the [[CIA]] supported and funded SUMKA at one point.

==Hitler protégé==
Monshizadeh was a great admirer of [[Adolf Hitler]] and the [[Nazi Party]], having lived in Germany since 1937, and was an SS member who fought (and was wounded) in the battle of Berlin,<ref>[http://iranpoliticsclub.net/history/nazis2/index.htm Iranian National Socialist Movement (A History)]. Iran Politics Club, Second edition 10 July 2015.</ref> and he even went as far as trying to resemble Hitler to a tee (mostly with his mustache and his clothing), and his party also adopted the Nazis' militarism and salute. He formed SUMKA in 1940, leaving Iran but then returning after a decade in 1950, where he continued his political life as a fascist activist.<ref>[https://prabook.com/web/davud.monshizadeh/2380416 Davud Monshizadeh]. World Biographical Encyclopedia.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1952/08/27/archives/neofascist-chief-arrested-in-iran-police-seize-partys-quarters-step.html Neo-Fascist Chief Arrested in Iran; Police Seize Party's Quarters -- Step Held Consequence of Attack on Soviet Center]. ''The New York Times'', 27 August 1952.</ref>

Monshizadeh admired Hitler for several reasons, mostly among them being that Hitler saw Iranians as fellow [[Aryan]]s alongside Germans (despite Iranians being the real Aryans) and declaring that Iranians are of equal citizenship and status to Germans.{{efn|In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote how he revered Iranians as the original Aryans and pure-blooded Aryans just like Germans.}} This made Iranians immune to the Nuremberg laws and allowed them to gain citizenship and a high status in the Greater German Reich.<ref>Ailreza Asgharzadeh, ''Iran and the Challenge of Diversity: Islamic Fundamentalism, Aryanist Racism, and Democratic Struggles''. Springer, 11 June 2007. {{isbn|9780230604889}}.</ref>{{rp|161}} Monshizadeh did just that, working for various organizations within the Third Reich, such as writing articles for Das Reich (a weekly Nazi [[propaganda]] newspaper founded by [[Joseph Goebbels]]), and ran an anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi radio program called Deutsche Radio, which he ran and operated with other pro-nazi Iranians.<ref>Leonard Willy Michael, [https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/23553/Michael_2021_BKoMES_national_socialist_CC.pdf National socialist propaganda in late Reza-Shah Iran: the case of Khaterat-e Hitler by Mohsen Jahansuz]. ''British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies'', 2021.</ref>

==Legacy==

Monshizadeh died in relative obscurity in Sweden in 1989 (coincidentally 100 years after Hitler’s birth) and was buried in Uppsala. Unlike most Nazi collaborators, he was never wanted nor tried for his participation in and with the Nazi party (making him one of the more obscure party members), and he continued his work as a scholar in Sweden, teaching Iranology and Persian language at Uppsala University.<ref>[https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/monchi-zadeh-davoud Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud]. Encyclopaedia Iranica.</ref>

Despite the party becoming inactive after the Iranian revolution,<ref>[https://en-humanities.tau.ac.il/iranian/publications/irans_pulse/2010-2 RECENT NAZI INCLINATIONS IN THE VIRTUAL DOMAIN OF IRAN] ''ACIS - The Alliance Center for Iranian Studies'' 6 December 2010</ref><ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2021.1945430 National socialist propaganda in late Reza-Shah Iran: the case of Khaterat-e Hitler by Mohsen Jahansuz] ''Taylor & Francis Online''</ref> advocates of neo Nazism continue to exist online amongst the younger generation of Iran. Though they are currently small, they are unfortunately an increasing minority.<ref>[https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/mena/iranian-ministry-denies-authorising-neo-nazi-website-1.512238 Iranian ministry denies authorising neo-Nazi website] ''The National'' Maryam Sinaiee, Nov 23, 2010</ref><ref>[https://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2010%2F11%2F22%2F126944 Iran lifts ban on pro-Nazi website] ''Al Arabiya News''</ref><ref name=france24 /> SUMKA's legacy remains as a way for Iranian youth to become radicalized into neo-Nazism, [[white supremacy]], and Islamophobia, creating an online army of rabidly xenophobic and Islamophobic youth becoming radicalized into Neo-Nazism.<ref name=france24 /> Some chat forums were even created by and are filled nazi sympathizers (basically an Iranian version of [[Stormfront]] or [[The Daily Stormer]]).<ref>[https://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2010%2F11%2F22%2F126944 Iran lifts ban on pro-Nazi website]. ''Al Arabiya News'', 22 November 2010.</ref><ref name=france24>Lorena Galliot, [https://web.archive.org/web/20171003124522/http://observers.france24.com/en/20101118-association-iranian-nazis-aryan-race-persian-nationalism Who's behind the 'Association of Iranian Nazis'] Archived from france24.com, 18 November 2010</ref><ref>[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01634437221147633 Alt-right and authoritarian memetic alliances: global mediations of hate within the rising Farsi manosphere on Iranian social media] ''SageJournals''</ref>

==See also==
*[[Amin al-Husseini]] - another middle eastern ally of Hitler, though a Muslim and an Arab (a Semite).
*[[M.S. Golwalkar]] - another Aryan admirer of Hitler.

==External links==
*[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hGjMkFofRH4 Video about Monshizadeh]

==Notes==
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