Nazi: Fritz Grobba & the Arabs Doctor Fritz Konrad Ferdinand Grobba (1886-1973) was born Arthur Borg (and as a boy was prophetically nicknamed "the Turk," because he looked like one), a German politician under the Nazi system. As a soldier in World War I he was assigned to the Turkish Front, was wounded, and, as a convalescent, fell in love with a Syrian Arab girl. He took her back to the mountains of Bavaria; but her lungs were not fit, and she died. Borg became a Mohammedan, studied Orientology, and eventually was persuaded by General Erich Ludendorff to undertake military...