Thank you for this thread, it is a part of history that I did not know.
And a ping to an important part of WW2 history.
How about this: The Grand Mufti (shown in the start of this with the SS) had two apprentices under his tutelage. One was Yasser Arafat, the other was Saddam.
This is one of the reasons that up until Arafat's death, Mein Kampf still ranked as the #1 read book (over the Koran) in the Palestinian squatting lands. The National Socialist (Nazi) movement lived on with Yasser, and became the Baath Party under Saddam.
Kinda puts things in a different perspective, doesn't it?