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Adolf Hitler met with Amin al-Husseini on 28 November 1941. The official German notes of that meeting contain numerous references to combatting Jews both inside and outside Europe. The following excerpts from that meeting are statements from Hitler to al-Husseini: Germany stood for uncompromising war against the Jews.
[30] al-Husseini turns from Damascus-oriented Pan-Arabism to a specifically Palestinian ideology centered on Jerusalem, which sought to block Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine. The frustration of pan-Arab aspirations lent an Islamic colour to the struggle for independence, and increasing resort to the idea of restoring the land to Dar ...
On one photo taken in 1942, the grand mufti al-Husaini, Iraq’s former prime minister Rashid Ali al-Kailani, and the Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose inspect Trebbin’s satellite camp of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen near Berlin along with two Nazi officials who were involved in the Holocaust. The photos of the visit to a Nazi ...
To make an impartial assessment of the man's career—or, for that matter, an unbiased history of the Arab–Israeli dispute—is like trying to ride two bicycles at the same time. [79] Philip Mattar suggests that in 1939 al-Husseini should have accepted the favorable White Paper of 1939, or compromise with the Zionists. But the Mufti adapted a ...
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, collaborated closely with the Nazis in the 1930s and also lived in Germany. Here he spread Nazi propaganda to the Arab world and urged Arabs to support the Germans. [4] Nazi Germany also supported the uprising of the Palestinians against the British colonial power with funds and weapons. [5]
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد أمين الحسيني; c. 1897 [a] – 4 July 1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. [5] Al-Husseini was the scion of the al-Husayni family of Jerusalemite Arab nobles, [6] who trace their origins to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. [7]
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.
For those who are reading this and don't have access to this particular document: This booklet included copies of communications between Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini and high ranking Nazis (e.g. Heinrich Himmler, Franz von Papen, Goebbels), the Mufti's diary on his meeting with Adolf Hitler, several letters from the Mufti ...