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He subsequently became the popular leader of approximately 50,000 Palestinian Arabs who joined the Mufti's Army of the Holy War during the 1947–1948 Arab–Israeli War. His fellow Iraq-veteran and German collaborator Fawzi al-Qawuqji became a rival general in that same struggle against Zionism. [330]
In the context of the Six-Day War, the administration of the Soviet Union compared Israeli tactics to those of Nazi Germany during the Second World War in official commentary. [17] After the victory of Likud in the 1977 Israeli legislative election, Holocaust metaphors began to be used by the Israeli right-wing to describe their left-wing ...
The 1941 Iraqi coup d'état (Arabic: ثورة رشيد عالي الكيلاني), also called the Rashid Ali Al-Gaylani coup or the Golden Square coup, was a nationalist and pro-German coup d'état in Iraq on 1 April 1941 that overthrew the pro-British regime of Regent 'Abd al-Ilah and Prime Minister Nuri al-Said and installed Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as prime minister.
In November 1942 Nazi Germany occupied French Tunisia for six months, until May 1943. SS Oberstrumbannführer Walter Rauff , a brutal and notorious killer involved in the development of death gas vans and the Final Solution in Eastern Europe, was posted as commander of Tunis.
Nazi Germany Männer, Meer und Stürme (Men, Sea and Storms) Heinrich Hauser, Hubert Schonger: 1942 United Kingdom The Soldier's Food: unknown 1944 Nazi Germany Panorama: 1944 United States The Battle for the Marianas: Gordon Hollingshead: 1944 Japan Calling Australia (Japanese: オーストラリアを呼び出します, romanized: Ōsutoraria ...
Israeli–Palestinian conflict films (2 C, 64 P) Pages in category "Films about the Arab–Israeli conflict" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Britain and France declared war on Germany and World War II in Europe began. [6] [7] Having established a "Rome-Berlin axis" with Benito Mussolini, and signing the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan – which was joined by Italy a year later in 1937 – Hitler felt able to take the offensive in foreign policy. On 12 March 1938, German troops ...
While some of them are popular only within the Neo-Nazi subculture, comedies starring Heinz Rühmann rank among the favourites of all Germans, and the propaganda films of Leni Riefenstahl have been influential, though controversial. A total of 1,084 feature films were shown in cinemas in Nazi Germany. [1]