Davud Monshizadeh

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Davud Monshizadeh (28 August 1914 – 13 July 1989) was an Iranian Nazi politician, propagandist, and scholar. He founded SUMKA, the Iranian National Socialist Workers Party, and promoted Nazism in Germany during World War II and in Iran after the war. He joined the SS and produced print and radio propaganda, fought on the Eastern Front, and was wounded in the Battle of Berlin. He also worked as a translator for interrogations of Soviet prisoners of war. He studied at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin.

After the war, Monshizadeh taught at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and translated many of Jose Ortega y Gasset’s books from Spanish into Persian. He returned to Iran in 1950. He later served as a professor of Persian studies at Uppsala University in Sweden and at Alexandria University in Egypt. He was known for admiring Hitler and adopting some Nazi practices, including the mustache. He died in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1989 and is buried at Uppsala Old Cemetery.