[lit-ideas] Grand Mufti and the Holocaust
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:01:12 -0500
More on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his buddy
Hitler. This from Wikipedia:
In Nazi-occupied Europe
PHOTOS:
Al-Husayni and Adolf Hitler (1941)
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Al-Husayni inspects Waffen SS recruits
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Upon al-Husayni's arrival in Europe, he met the
German Foreign Minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop on
November 20, 1941 and was officially received by
Adolf Hitler on November 28, 1941 in Berlin. He
asked Hitler for a public declaration that
"recognized and sympathized with the Arab
struggles for independence and liberation, and
that it would support the elimination of a
national Jewish homeland". Hitler refused to make
such a public announcement, but "made the
following declaration, requesting the Mufti to
lock it deep in his heart:
1. He (the FÃhrer) would carry on the fight
until the last traces of the Jewish-Communist
European hegemony had been obliterated.
2. In the course of this fight, the German
army would - at a time that could not yet be
specified, but in any case in the clearly
foreseeable future - gain the southern exit of
Caucasus.
3. As soon as this breakthrough was made, the
FÃhrer would offer the Arab world his personal
assurance that the hour of liberation had struck.
Thereafter, Germany's only remaining objective in
the region would be limited to the Vernichtung
des...Judentums ['destruction of the Jewish
element', sometimes taken to be a euphemism for
'annihilation of the Jews'] living under British
protection in Arab lands.." [2]
The Mufti established close contacts with Bosnian
and Albanian Muslim leaders and spent the
remainder of the war conducting the following
activities:
* Radio propaganda on behalf of Nazi Germany
* Espionage and the fifth column activities
in Muslim regions of Europe and the Middle East
* Assisting with the formation of Muslim
Waffen SS units in the Balkans
* The formation of schools and training
centers for Muslim imams and mullahs who would
accompany the Muslim SS and Wehrmacht units.
Beginning in 1943, al-Husayni was involved in the
organization and recruitment of Bosnian Muslims
into several divisions of the Waffen SS and other
units. The largest was the 13th "Handschar"
division of 21,065 men (sometimes spelled Hanjar:
the word Scimitar in Turkish, Arabic Khanjar
ØÙØØ), which conducted operations against
Communist partisans in the Balkans from February 1944.
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