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The Free Arabian Legion (German: Legion Freies Arabien; Arabic: جيش بلاد العرب الحرة, romanized: Jaysh bilād al-ʿarab al-ḥurraẗ) was the collective name of several Nazi German units formed from Arab volunteers from the Middle East, notably Iraq, and North Africa during World War II.
While Arabs were a small population in Europe at the time, they were not free from Nazi persecution. [30] Nazi harassment of Arabs began as early as 1932, where members of the Egyptian Student Association in Graz, Austria reported to the Egyptian consulate in Vienna that some Nazis had assaulted some of its members, throwing beer steins and armchairs at them, injuring them, and that "oddly ...
Pages in category "Arab collaborators with Nazi Germany" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
[158] On 23 October 1942 Nazi Germany's Arabic language propaganda station, "Berlin in Arabic," sent the following broadcast to Egypt, in which presented Gross's reply to "H.E. [His Excellency] The Prime Minister of Iraq", after Raschid Ali al-Gaylani solicit an answer from an official source regarding the German consideration of the Arab race ...
Operation Atlas [1] was the code name for an operation carried out by a special commando unit of the Waffen SS which took place in October 1944. It involved five soldiers: three who were previously members of the Templer religious sect in Mandatory Palestine, and two Palestinian Arabs who were close collaborators of the mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini.
Nazi Germany: Croats (Partisan POWs and civilians) killed by Chetniks, 7th SS Division, and Italian forces, victims were burned alive in houses. [186] Rotimlja massacre: 12 July 1943 Rotimlja, near Stolac: 66 Nazi Germany: Muslims massacred in reprisals the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen. [187] Košutica massacre: 12 July 1943
Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East is a controversial 2014 Yale University Press book by German historian Wolfgang G. Schwanitz and Israeli historian Barry Rubin. The authors argue that there is a high degree of similarity in the ideologies of Nazism, radical Arab nationalism, and Islamism.
A number of Muslims participated in efforts to help save Jewish residents of European and Arab lands from the Holocaust while fascist regimes controlled the territory. From June 1940 through May 1943, Axis powers, namely Germany and Italy, controlled large portions of Southeastern Europe and North Africa. Approximately 1 percent of the Jewish ...