Insightful Question: It is sometimes thought that Reza Shah was ally of Hitler; was it actually the case or the mutual economic relations of the two country created such impression?
Prof. Jennifer Jenkins answers this question.

Jennifer L. Jenkins is a global historian who writes on Iran from the perspectives of international diplomacy and political economy. An Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in German History at the University of Toronto, she is working on two book manuscripts: The Persian Question: Germany, Iran and the Near East in the Age of Empire, 1914-1856 and The German Orient, 1979-1905. In 2022 she was a visiting scholar at the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University. She has held fellowships from the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, the Canada Research Chairs Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard University, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has been an Associate at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin (2018-2017), a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford University (2014-2013) and an Eva and Victor Klemperer Fellow at the TU Dresden (December 2019).

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