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Success or Failure?

Germany dedicated a large amount of planning and resources to propaganda for Muslim prisoners of war.

The campaign by most measures was a failure.

• Some POWs did join the alliance: about 800 prisoners from the Half Moon Camp registered for the Ottoman army and went to Turkey.
• Most Muslim POWs, about 4,200 or 84%, did not join the German-Ottoman alliance.
• A Muslim revolution to overthrow English, French, and Russian empires never materialized.