Posted on 11/14/2017 4:22:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
Tens of thousands of Muslims fought for the Nazis in World War Two. DW spoke with historian David Motadel about whether pragmatism or anti-Semitism drove Adolf Hitler’s overtures and why some Muslim leaders backed him. […]
At the height of the war in 1941-1942, when German troops entered Muslim-populated territories in the Balkans, North Africa, Crimea, and the Caucasus, and approached the Middle East and Central Asia, Berlin began to see Islam as politically significant. Nazi Germany made significant attempts to promote an alliance with the “Muslim world” against their alleged common enemies — the British Empire, the Soviet Union, America and Jews.In the war zones, Germany engaged with a wide range of religious policies and propaganda to promote the Nazi regime as the patron of Islam. As early as 1941, the Wehrmacht distributed the military handbook “Islam” to train its soldiers to behave correctly towards Muslim populations. On the eastern Front, the Nazi occupiers ordered the rebuilding of mosques, prayer halls, and madrassas — previously destroyed by Moscow — and the re-establishment of religious rituals and celebrations in order to undermine Soviet rule.
German military authorities also made extensive efforts to co-opt Islamic dignitaries. German propagandists in the eastern territories, the Balkans, and North Africa tried to use religious rhetoric, vocabulary and iconography to mobilize Muslims. They politicized sacred texts like the Quran as well as religious imperatives, most notably the concept of jihad, in order to foment religious violence for political ends.
From 1941 onwards, the Nazi Wehrmacht army and the paramilitary SS recruited tens of thousands of Muslims, mainly to save German blood. …
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Courted?
Courted?
The Nazis were French kissing and allowing their Obamaholes to be explored by the Muzzies.
“They politicized sacred texts like the Quran as well as religious imperatives, most notably the concept of jihad, in order to foment religious violence for political ends.”
Its the German Nazi’s fault! Taqiyya ... Hitler virtually plagiarized the koran. Who is this guy trying to fool? Millennials?
Satan has prepared Europe for his own troops (warriors for Allah) and they are moving in.
And the women folk (Frau Merkel at the lead) are most inviting.
"Come in and kill...but rape us first."
i think it is helpful for DW, a leading German media outlet, to be informing its public about this history. thank you, DW
On the other hand, the Nazis were stirring up the Muzzis in Palestine by shipping thousands Jews to the Middle East despite the best efforts of the British and later the Soviets. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005470
bkmk
The Germans hoped to :Set the East Ablaze” with a major jihad during WWI as well. No surprise that the Nazis replayed the same tune, with the anti-Semitism turned up.
Chickens coming home to roost ?
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75% of the Nazi hierarchy escaped to the ME after the war. Mein Kampf is still a best seller there since everyone in the Muslim Brotherhood are required to read it.
It’s a great way to control a population, which is why leftists love the muzzies.
your words are so chilling, yet so true.
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