National socialist propaganda in late Reza-Shah Iran: the case of <i>Khaterat-e Hitler</i> by Mohsen Jahansuz

The attempts of national socialist Germany to influence the Iranian public are an important dimension relations between two countries during last years Reza Shah’s rule. Yet previous studies on this aspect have barely considered sources assess actual impact these propaganda efforts society. One is 1938-published Khaterat-e Hitler by Mohsen Jahansuz. By analysing book in depth and situating it within context Jahansuz’s biography, study provides new findings concerning reception ideology 1930s Iran challenges claims publication, which has hitherto been first translation Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. It argues that Jahansuz, inserting his own ideas interpretations into text without explicitly indicating authorship, did not create a but adaptation German original transcended limits exclusivist Germanocentrism order establish theory ‘racial superiority’ rural population at Iran’s mountainous periphery. paper shows how representative literati appropriated distributed altered way further cause.