Doing her part to help combat anti-Muslim bigotry, historian Lottie Richard presents her list of Muslims heroes during World War II – including Behic Erkin (Turkish ambassador in Paris who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis), Necdet Kent (the Turkish consul-general in Marseille who also saved thousands of lives), and British spy Noor Inayat Khan (whose life was featured in the PBS documentary Enemy Of The Third Reich ).
Historians’ Pick of Muslim WW2 Heroes
Original article by Lottie Richard published in the Liberal America on 04/23/2015
