Though Hitler/Eichmann didn’t need Mufti’s help in their extermination plan...but the Palestine leader tried to help.
He was allowed to skate after the war -- he probably should have been executed. But the allied postwar courts had a lot to do.
Here is a great informative piece from 1946:
The Evening Star, Bradford, Pa., Wednesday Evening:, June 12, 1946. Page Three
MacKenzie Column
The Grand Mufti Is on the Loose Again
By DEWITT MACKENZIE (Associated Press Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Word that the powerful grand mufti of Jerusalem who is anti everything that is British or Jewish has evaded surveillance in France and again is at large somewhere among the Moslems of the Middle East, isn’t calculated to ease the crisis which has arisen in Palestine over the fiery problem of Jewish immigration.
Dangerous Man
The highly educated grand mufti is a dangerous man to those against whom he conspires. For many years he has been leader of the Arab campaign for an independent Palestine and against the establishment of a Jewish national home as promised by the British. And it is an ironic circumstance that it was Sir Herbert Samuel, first British high commissioner of Palestine under the league of Nations mandate, who appointed him mufti. The 53-year-old Haj Amin El Husseini to give him his name not only is spiritual head of Palestine’s some 1,000,000 Moslem Arabs but is political leader as well.
Moreover his influence extends into Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Arabia, Egypt, Iran and Syria, for he is gifted with leadership, has a strong personality and is as crafty as a fox.
Most of his life. Husseini has made war on the Jews of Palestine.
Indeed in 1920, when his brother was grand mufti, he fled to Trans-Jordan after being sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for his part in anti-Jewish riots.
Next year the brother died and Haj Amin was granted amnesty, after which High Commissioner Samuel appointed him grand mufti, it being the custom for this high office to remain In the same family.
Banished in 1937
Finally in 1937 the British banished the grand mufti from Palestine. He took refuge first in Syria, and then in Iran and finally in Italy, keeping just ahead of the British forces as they occupied the Middle East in 1941.
Of course the grand mufti was welcomed by Mussolini with open arms, for both Il Duce and Hitler were doing their utmost to inflame the Moslems of the Middle East against the Allies.
He carried on his anti-British activities from Italy until he again was forced to flee, this time to France where ultimately he came under Allied control.
Now the grand mufti is loose again and is reported to have gone by air to Syria, but his whereabouts is a mystery.
It scarcely can be mere coincidence that the grand mufti has made this spectacular get-away as the moment nears when a decision must be made whether the Anglo-American Committee recommendation shall be carried out.
June 20 is the time set for both Jews and Arabs to give formal reports of their reactions to the recommendation.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/76752197/