Hitler’s Plan to Invade Turkey – Webtekno

Many of you may have heard of him, but let’s tell you who he is anyway: Hitler’s The plan to invade Turkey was inevitable and would be implemented sooner or later. The name of this plan was also known as Operation Gertrude.

Hitler’s plan Maybe it was never implemented, but if it had been, it would have been inevitable that the consequences would have been great. Let’s see if this plan was designed well enough to be implemented.

It was known that there were some journalists and retired officers in Turkey who were known to be pro-Nazi.

It was also clear that these people would cooperate with the occupation forces in case Germany attacked Turkey. However, there was no definitive document about who these people were. This situation caused various speculations and discussions. One of these discussions took place in early 2001 in action magazine It would come to the fore with a published news.

The focus of the news in Avizyon magazine was the article published in Tan newspaper on September 30, 1945. “Who are included in the ‘C’ list?” It was an article titled. The article by Zekeriya Sertel was as follows:

“Probably the document that revealed for the first time how the Germans planned to invade Turkey You may have read it in the pages of Tan newspaper. The author who published this document reports that the Germans requested a list of who they would cooperate with when invading Turkey and deleted this information.

Germans II. We all know the invasion methods during World War II. It is seen that the Germans followed the same strategy in the plan prepared for Türkiye. First, many Germans entered the country; He will infiltrate as a merchant, engineer, diplomat. Inside, they will first arrest the government and party officials included in the (A) list, and then keep those in the (B) list under surveillance. They will also be interested in people belonging to the C list who will facilitate and cooperate with the German occupation. Then, they will establish a new government with the people they choose from these lists.”

The reporter who wrote the news did not give names.

Action magazine discussed this article and discussed who could be on the C-list. Assoc. Dr. Mithat Atabay, Rasih Nuri İleri, Attila İlhan, Orhan Koloğlu and Altan Deliorman will seek their opinions; These people would list some names in the Turkist/Turanist movement in the 1940s as “possible collaborators”.

The interesting part of the news was that the series of articles published in Tan newspaper that led Sertel to write this article was not mentioned at all. The series of articles that pushed Sertel to publish this article; published in Tan newspaper on 28, 29, 30 September 1945 and Dr. First published in Gazette de Lausanne by Nerin Gün It was a translation of a long news story.

Nerin Gün, II. He was one of the rare impartial journalists who fell into captivity of the Nazis during World War II. He is among those known to have angered the Germans with the news he published and to have served as press representative in Italy and Hungary. When the Nazis invaded Hungary, he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Mauthausen and then to Dachau camp.

after 2 weeks, American Armed Forces He gained his freedom when he entered Dachau on April 29, 1945 and freed the prisoners of the camp.

Gün later settled in America and changed his surname to Gun.

He was accused of badmouthing Turkey with the articles he wrote, and today we actually learn from him about this plan devised by Hitler. Dr. Gazette de Lausanne, where Nerin Gün is a correspondent Tan newspaper translated and published his article published on July 25, 1945:

“The Swiss public was informed about the plans of Hitler’s General Staff for Switzerland. Because the competent political leaders gave undeniable and clear information on this subject. However, people tend to forget quickly. That is why this issue is important to me. During the years when I was a journalist in Berlin, the Germans I learned a lot about these intentions. In the 16 months I spent in the concentration camps I would like to announce to everyone the incredible coincidences I witnessed.

Nazi German sadism These hellish inventions did not only have a political purpose. At the same time, the SS movement was fed with the salaries received from each worker and the expenses of the large camps of the SS units in the camp allocated to the prisoners were also covered. “In these giant camps, groups prepared to invade any country were trained and at the same time, they gained fame by providing espionage information of the fifth column elements to special SS units included in the SD cadres.”

Testimonies of prisoners in contact with SS units in the Meching camp in Bavaria confirm that forces were being prepared in these camps for the invasion of Switzerland.

These camps were kept out of sight and secret. The movement that prepared Operation Matterhorn, which would take place after the invasion of France, the subsequent occupation of Moscow and the Anglo-American expulsion, was planned here.

However Before coming to Dachau, it was not possible to access them because all these documents were burned. Despite this, ‘“Oriental Star” He managed to obtain the plan called. This plan was about the invasion of Turkey. Since the political, military and regulatory methods followed are the same, it is possible to understand with a small guess how the Germans will act in Switzerland.

Alright DayHow did he access this information?

He spent a long time in the Mauthausen death camp in 1944. It is known that he served as a clerk in the SS Organization because he knew different languages.

Later, he started working in the political unit. Because the chiefs were sure that he would not survive the camp, they sometimes did not hesitate to reveal state secrets in their speeches. Gün stated that they used old files due to paper shortage; One day, by a great coincidence, (Orient Star-Orientstern) He came across a note regarding the SS units that would participate in the operation. Then he found documents such as ‘Ankara’s plan, list of clothing items specific to hot countries’.

Inside the camp in August and September 1942 There are more than 500 SDs and that they were constantly talking about traveling to Turkey. He must have frequently brought up these documents that he saw while talking to the chiefs, because someone gave him the information he wanted.

He even went further and read the instructions sent to the organization. This instruction ‘Secret Service’ for ‘Operation Oriental Star’ It consisted of a series of pamphlets bearing his name.

So, based on what they read, how were they preparing for the invasion?

Members in the camp were taking lessons. current events and Films of Turkish leaders are shown, large pictures of Turkish cities, streets and important buildings were projected. In order to memorize these images, they examined them in detail, just like a police officer remembers criminal photographs. In addition, courses such as Turkish and Turkey’s geography were also given. SD members were essentially highly paid professional civil servants.

organization, Gün said that it consists of four branches marked with Roman letters; internal administration, surveillance of German citizens, espionage and police forces. Even the organization is divided into branches within itself, and they seem to work above and below each other.

In Operation Eastern Star, it was written that it was necessary to act peacefully.

From the date of occupation of Bulgaria In the time leading up to the attack on the Russians, many SS units had left. The movement of these units would be of a purely military nature. In 1942, they only had the intention of establishing a German-friendly Turkish government. Later, by making an agreement with the Turkish army, they would try to impose the principle of strategic occupation of Turkey.

The organization was given detailed maps prepared by Türkiye. Only Maps of airports in Eskişehir and surrounding areas, was manually crafted by a spy. Members would enter the country secretly as merchants, industrialists and journalists. This group would consist only of members of the organization and would perform duties such as guidance, translation, guidance or supply of materials.

What would Hitler’s promises be?

Germany, on the other hand, agreed to guarantee Turkey’s independence and sovereignty, to undertake not to intervene in its internal affairs, and to undertake not to participate in the tripartite agreement. He does not object to Turkey maintaining its neutrality, agrees not to take repressive measures against its allied subjects, and does not object to the German army’s transit through Turkish territory. Assurance that they will not stay on Turkish territory for more than three weeks was giving.

At that time, deficiencies in Turkey’s defense caused serious military difficulties. In the winter of 1941, a possible operation and the Turkish army on intelligence of German troopshad completely withdrawn from Thrace. In order to protect Istanbul against a potential Nazi attack, the Turkish army was deployed up to the long wall in Thrace, known as the Anastasios Walls.

Germany’s strategy was to reach the oil resources in Iraq and land in Egypt to surround Cairo with Axis troops coming from Libya.

German General Staff, Thrace and Istanbul in 18 days, He was planning to capture the rest of Anatolia in 1 month. However, Germany’s defeat against the USSR in Stalingrad disrupted Operation Eastern Star. Hitler stopped the operation and signed a neutrality and friendship agreement with Türkiye. The German General Staff was not keen on the idea of ​​invading Turkey. This step was never taken for reasons such as logistical problems, lack of sufficient information about the Turkish resistance, help that could come from England, and the priority given to the USSR.

In the Archives of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany to “Operation Gertrude” The fact that no document has been found regarding this does not mean that such a plan is completely imaginary. The accuracy of the detailed information provided can only be confirmed as a result of an in-depth research in German archives. No trace has been found of Nerin Gün or her relatives, from whom we obtained this information.