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Fighting the French in Morocco

Fighting the French in Morocco

Albert Barels
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Illustrated with photographs taken by the author, and translated from the German by H. J. Stenning.

T.E. Lawrence was not the European to lead an Arab uprising against his WWI enemies. With more enlightened support from the German government, Albert Bartels may well have succeeded in Making Morocco into a German colony, and certainly would have drawn substantial French troops away from the bloody trenches to the Atlas and Rif mountains.
Unlike TEL, Bartels was never a soldier, or a member of any military organization. He arrived in Morocco in 1903 as a young employee of a German trading company quickly learning Arabic and developing strong trading relations with tribes in the interior. He learned the cultures and differences between the 66 tribes/clans that made up Morocco.
With the coming of WWI, the French authorities seized all German interests in Morocco and imprisoned all German nationals under difficult conditions in a prison in Oran.
With three other prisoners, Bartels escaped to the neutral Spanish zone, finally reaching the German Consulate in Melilla.With assurances of money and arms from the German government, he penetrated the Spanish zone and on into the Rif mountains where he organized the Riffian tribes for a sustained assault on the French army.
Batels' style of writng is direct and unadorned, and remarkably modest.It bears no comparison to the self-consciousness richness of Lawrence's Severn Pillars of Wisdom.
It is in the end a story of bitter and dangerous frutration with limited support from Germany, and the treachery of an Arab leader, Adb-el-Malek, that the German government required him to work with or face court martial. This included having to watch his back as on one occasion, Malek attempted to serve him poisoned butter.
with no funds from Berlin, Batels bought cartridges for his fighters with his own funds and later his notes -- like fighting a war using your MasterCharge -- a far cry from the British support to Lawrence.

Bartels was never captured by the French, but with the Armistice, the German government ordered him to cease operations. With every reason to be intensely bitter, his book refuses to take that tone.
It would be interesting to learn how Albert Batels dealt with the Third Reich. His courage and resourcefulness is recorded in only one obscure book. His Lowell Thomas never arrived.
Pictured in native dress in a Spanish fortress at the end of WWI, Bartels appears ruggedly handsome, bearded, the exotic hero of some exotic movie.

His public impact, however, can be measured by the fact that in P.C. Wren's 1926 sequel to Beau Geste, Beau Sabeur, it is Albert Bartels who is the threatening enemy of the Legion on the horizon. There was no need for the author to explain to his British readers who Albert Bartels was and why he was to be feared..
Language
English
Pages
255
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1932

Fighting the French in Morocco

Albert Barels
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Illustrated with photographs taken by the author, and translated from the German by H. J. Stenning.

T.E. Lawrence was not the European to lead an Arab uprising against his WWI enemies. With more enlightened support from the German government, Albert Bartels may well have succeeded in Making Morocco into a German colony, and certainly would have drawn substantial French troops away from the bloody trenches to the Atlas and Rif mountains.
Unlike TEL, Bartels was never a soldier, or a member of any military organization. He arrived in Morocco in 1903 as a young employee of a German trading company quickly learning Arabic and developing strong trading relations with tribes in the interior. He learned the cultures and differences between the 66 tribes/clans that made up Morocco.
With the coming of WWI, the French authorities seized all German interests in Morocco and imprisoned all German nationals under difficult conditions in a prison in Oran.
With three other prisoners, Bartels escaped to the neutral Spanish zone, finally reaching the German Consulate in Melilla.With assurances of money and arms from the German government, he penetrated the Spanish zone and on into the Rif mountains where he organized the Riffian tribes for a sustained assault on the French army.
Batels' style of writng is direct and unadorned, and remarkably modest.It bears no comparison to the self-consciousness richness of Lawrence's Severn Pillars of Wisdom.
It is in the end a story of bitter and dangerous frutration with limited support from Germany, and the treachery of an Arab leader, Adb-el-Malek, that the German government required him to work with or face court martial. This included having to watch his back as on one occasion, Malek attempted to serve him poisoned butter.
with no funds from Berlin, Batels bought cartridges for his fighters with his own funds and later his notes -- like fighting a war using your MasterCharge -- a far cry from the British support to Lawrence.

Bartels was never captured by the French, but with the Armistice, the German government ordered him to cease operations. With every reason to be intensely bitter, his book refuses to take that tone.
It would be interesting to learn how Albert Batels dealt with the Third Reich. His courage and resourcefulness is recorded in only one obscure book. His Lowell Thomas never arrived.
Pictured in native dress in a Spanish fortress at the end of WWI, Bartels appears ruggedly handsome, bearded, the exotic hero of some exotic movie.

His public impact, however, can be measured by the fact that in P.C. Wren's 1926 sequel to Beau Geste, Beau Sabeur, it is Albert Bartels who is the threatening enemy of the Legion on the horizon. There was no need for the author to explain to his British readers who Albert Bartels was and why he was to be feared..
Language
English
Pages
255
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1932

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