Nazis on the Nile

Using official British records and CIA files released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, Vyvyan Kinross paints a compelling portrait of a country rearming and re-equipping for the Cold War and rocket age with the help of former German Wehrmacht soldiers, missile scientists, chemical engineers, arms manufacturers and arms dealers. • German special forces veterans trained Egypt’s soldiers to fight the British in the Suez Canal Zone and the Israelis in Gaza • If they had been given executive authority and battlefield command, German commanders might have changed outcomes in Egypt’s favour • The British detected German tactics of subversion in Egyptian foreign policy, propaganda and intelligence operations • Egypt used coercive methods to persuade its Jewish population to leave after the Suez crisis of 1956