1st Edition

Hitler’s Allies The Ramifications of Nazi Alliance Politics in World War II

By John P. Miglietta Copyright 2022
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the significance of alliances in the international system, focusing on the dynamics between great and regional powers, and on the alliances Nazi Germany made during World War II, and their implications for Germany. It examines a variety of case studies and looks at how each of the respective states contributed to or weakened Nazi Germany’s warfighting capabilities. The... Read more

Chapter 1: The significance of great/small power alliances

Chapter 2: Italy and Germany

Chapter 3: Germany and Japan during World War II: allies at a distance

Chapter 4: Hungary

Chapter 5: Romania

Chapter 6: Finland: the co-belligerent of Nazi Germany

Chapter 7: Vichy France: the occupied ally

Chapter 8: Spain: the friendly neutral

Chapter 9: Bulgaria: an ally at a distance

Chapter 10: Croatia: the vassal state

Chapter 11: Switzerland and Sweden: the armed neutrals

Chapter 12: The Islamic world and Nazi Germany

Chapter 13: Conclusion: the pitfalls of great and small power alliances

Biography

John P. Miglietta has a PhD in Political Science from New York University. He is a Professor of Political Science at Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN. His research and teaching interests are international relations, American foreign policy, Middle East politics, and Central Asian politics. He is the author of American Alliance Policy in the Middle East, 19451992 (2002) and editor of Introduction to Political Science: An Anthology (2021).

"Given the vast number of books already written about World War II, do we really need another? In this case, yes. Many works already deal with Nazi Germany’s policy toward its allies, yet Hitler’s Allies is one of the few that considers the full range of such states, from the major Axis powers to smaller allies, and even nominally neutral countries (both occupied and unoccupied) that were helpful to the German war effort" - Randall Newnham, Penn State University, German Politics and Society