The Mufti al-Husseini bragged that Hitler admired "Palestine" Arabs' jihad on June 17, 1938

Commentary at DP ^ | 16 Nov 2022

[Words Matter]

Elpeleg, Zvi. Through the Eyes of the Mufti. The Essays of Haj Amin, Translated and Annotated. (Hebrew). Israel: Tel Aviv University, 1995, p.27:

Blame B: The Palestinians' defense of their land The second claim was that the Arabs of Palestine did not defend their land... Hitler cited the Jihad of the Arabs of Palestine as an example at an official reception held in 1938 for Khaled al-Qarqani, the adviser of His Majesty the King Abd al-Aziz to the House of Saud, Hitler said, that he was full of admiration for the struggle of the Palestinian Arabs and their heroism...

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Jeffrey Herf, 'Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World,' Yale University Press, 2009, p.34:

On June 8, 1939, King Ibn Saud's adviser, Khalid al-Hud al-Qarqani, met with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (he had assumed the position in February 1938) and then with Hitler himself on June 17.

[Words Matter]

Took one Nazi to know his 'pal...' (excuse the pun).

[Milagros]

Photograph of three of these figures – the Mufti of Jerusalem, Al-Kailani, and Grobba – taken in 1942 at Trebbin camp near Berlin, where inmates, including Jews, performed forced labor. Camp Trebbin was considered a branch of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.


Arrives in Nazi Germany in 1941


Inspecting weapons with the Nazis


Inspects weapons with the Nazis


With Heinrich Himmler


With Nazi officers


Commemorating visit with SS Hanschar troops

In the company of German and Bosnian members of the SS


Saluting German and Bosnian members of the SS


With Nazi Muslim troops


Giving the Nazi salute to SS Muslim troops


With Nazis at machine gun


Upon meeting Hitler in 1941


With Hitler on Nov 28, 1941