Stefan Ihrig's exhaustively researched new book, Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination, charts the outsized role that Atatürk and the New Turkey played in the minds of Germanys Weimar-era far rightan influence that extended through the Nazi years. Turkish Revolution was the most hotly-debated foreign issue in the early 1920s. Not only did the Nazis model themselves after the Turkish National Movement, but Nazi leaders from Hitler and Goebbels were personally entranced by everything Atatürk did.