Kai, you must also put this into perspective of the times and the much anti British feeling of the days before ww2 when the British were seen by some Arabs as no different...the Nazis were not in their lands..the British were and we were brutal when necessary...the enemy of my enemy is my friend...To say that Anwar Sadat was a Nazi follower only hints at the sidelines of his polotics and beliefs at a time when his country was owned and run by an imperial nation that he did not want running his country...He seemed to more likely admire anyone who rebelled against Imperialism...many more did...He had same admiraton for Ghandi.

We must also look at events and people in Germany at that time too...Im sure you are aware of the zionist..and im saying zionist as a politial movement not anit semitic...attempts before war in Germany to align themselves with the Nazis..realising too late what they were doing..

Four figures affected Sadat's early life. The first, a man named Zahran, came from a small village like Sadat's. In a famous incident of colonial rule, the British hanged Zahran for participating in a riot which had resulted in the death of a British officer. Sadat admired the courage Zahran exhibit on the way to the gallows. The second, Kemel Ataturk, created the modern state of Turkey by forcing the downfall of the Ottoman Empire. Not only had Ataturk thrown off the shackles of colonialism, but he established a number of civil service reforms, which Sadat admired. The third man was Mohandas Gandhi. Touring Egypt in 1932, Gandhi had preached the power of nonviolence in combating injustice. And finally, the young Sadat admired Adolf Hitler whom the anticolonialist Sadat viewed as a potential rival to British control.

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