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Attitude towards Adolf Hitler

Mohammad Amin Rasulzadeh did not have a direct meeting or relationship with Adolf Hitler , the head of state of Germany in 1933-1945 . His relations with the German government were through Professor Gerhard von Mende , who headed the Main Department of the USSR Nationalities of the Eastern Ministry, and Friedrich-Werner von Schulenburg , the German ambassador in Moscow and the representative of the German Foreign Ministry . The main goal of Muhammad Amin Rasulzadeh in establishing contact with the German government was to save the Azerbaijani prisoners, numbering up to 70 thousand, and to accept the independence of Azerbaijan by the German government. In this regard, while he was in Germany, " National Azerbaijan Committee", and negotiated with the German government. However, Hitler preferred to create "national commissions" with limited powers rather than "committees".

Mohammad Amin Rasulzade expressed his attitude towards Hitler and his Nazi ideology as follows: "Hitlerism is, first of all, an idea created to oppose the demagoguery of communism. Like fascism, it took the idea of ​​dictatorship from its opponents, but replaced internationalism with nationalism."

In the article "Democracy and the Soviets" published in Germany in 1932-1934, Mohammad Amin Rasulzade explained his attitude to fascism as follows: "According to his enemies at home and abroad, Hitlerism came to work as an opponent of the democratic regime, and the administration he started was a fascist dictatorship, just like in Italy. "