Abstract
The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), though a big power economically, plays only a limited role as a political force in present Middle Eastern affairs. In the Palestine conflict it even has claimed not to be involved at all or at least to be strictly neutral. On the other hand, one may safely say that Middle Eastern history in the last fifty years would have run a different course had it not been for Germany. The rise of national socialism and the ensuing persecution of the Jews increased the number of actual and potential immigrants into Palestine to a point where the Zionist dream of creating a state of their own became realistic. Subsequently, in an endeavour to compensate for some of the material losses suffered by Nazi victims, the Federal Republic of Germany, as the successor state of the German Reich, paid reparations to the recently created state of Israel thereby helping it to overcome its serious economic difficulties and to firmly establish itself in the area.
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