The Mufti planned crematoriums for Jews in the Dotan Valley

On the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1943, "His ~~Holiness~~" organized a mass protest rally in Berlin with the participation of Muslim and Arab exiles from Morocco, Israel, Lebanon, Yemen, Mahjaz, India and Iran. Thousands of SS representatives from government ministries and branches of the Nazi party also took part in this rally, which was held in the Luftwaffe Hall and was broadcast on Radio Berlin, Athens and Belgrade. The Mufti was the keynote speaker and he said, among other things: "The Treaty of Versailles was a disaster for both the Germans and the Arabs.
But the Germans know how to get rid of the Jews, and the reason that brings us so close to Germany, and places us in their camp, is that the Germans never harmed any Muslim. And they are once again fighting our common enemy, which has persecuted Arabs and Muslims. But above all they completely solved the Jewish problem.
Oh Arabs! You never fought the Jews without that they will not lose. Time works against them, even when the Allies help them. I am happy to announce this historic day I received a telegram from the German Foreign Ministry declaring its recognition of the complete independence of the Arab states and the abolition of the Jewish national home."

This telegram was signed by von Ribbentrop. The assembly also read a telegram from SS leader Heinrich Himmler to the Mufti: "The National Socialist Party has engraved on its banner the slogan of the extermination of world Jewry. Our party supports the Arab war and especially the Palestinian Arabs on foreign Jews. Success in your war. "

In 1968, 25 years after these declarations of the unclean alliance, an old Arab nobleman, who had previously been a direct friend to me, revealed to me at his home in Jericho that in that year the British authorities in Israel received information about the exemplary preparations for the entry of Rommel and North German armies. Russia to the Holy Land.

"A chill runs through my body," said Faiz Bey Idrisi, a senior Arab officer in the Mandate Police and commander of the Jerusalem District Village District. "I remember what was said in the police circles and among the Mufti's supporters in those months in case of the German occupation of the country. Haj Amin was about to enter Jerusalem at the head of his aides and soldiers of the Arab Legion, organized within the German army. His big plan was to build huge crematoria in the Dotan Valley near Nablus, such as Auschwitz, to which they were to be brought. "The Jews of Israel ('Palestine'), as well as the Jews of Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and even North Africa, are being brought in to be exterminated by the SS in the extermination camps in Europe."

I have thoroughly researched this topic on several trips to Germany. I met Germans, who were in the Mufti's entourage during the war years, but they all filled their mouths with water. "We do not know about it," they said. Only an old German diplomat, who during the Third Reich had the courage to refuse to join the Nazi party, told me: "I can not say for sure what was expected of the Jews of the Land of Israel, but I knew that their fate must have been bitter and terrible."

Even when the British victory at Al-Alamein and the Western Allies landed forces on the coast of North Africa, and Haj Amin felt that the plans for the crematoria had faded, he continued to shout from Berlin to his brother: "O Arabs, stand up as one man and fight for your sacred rights. It causes pleasure to Allah. It saves our honor. Allah is with you."

Meanwhile the devil in the black cloak continued to amass money in Germany and sought solace in the arms of the upper race. This fact was revealed when I asked Dr. Fritz Grobba, who was the German ambassador to Iraq, if there was a Haj Amin during his years of residence in Germany and family life, if his wife was with him. Gromba: "No. He lived here alone, but of course we made sure he did not feel lonely. Very young and beautiful German women served as his hosts. "Was he related to one woman in particular in those years? No. They would take turns to diversify the difficult life of the "great" exiled. Each of these two bodies: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the SS constantly tried to pull him by their side, each constantly making sure to remind Haj Amin that his political status depended only on her.

Grobba: "Ribbentrop and Himmler competed with each other in supplying money to Haj Amin. I would pay him 40,000 marks (more than $ 10,000) each month; a similar amount would be paid to him by Himmler for the maintenance of the Muslim priesthood in Dresden. The Mufti saw himself as a spiritual father in the school (Madrassa) which is under the direction of Professor Idris from Saudi Arabia."
Himmler sought to train young Muslim shepherds in this institution for their tenure in the Muslim-populated territories, which would fall to Germany. In particular, the head of the SS dreamed of establishing independent Turkestan under the auspices of the Third Reich on the occupied territory of the Soviet Union.

In fact for all the years of his public career, the Mufti showed a lust for money, and always knew how to pour huge sums into his pockets. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was paid an annual salary of 1440 pounds of Palestine by the British, and the other half came from the Waqf fund.
His salary was the highest, reached by a non-British official in the service of the Mandatory government.

In addition to his control over the vast property of Muslim endowments, Haj Amin used to declare from time to time collections in the Muslim world: these collections were supposedly intended for the repair of the ... mosques in Jerusalem. From time to time he would go on tours in Muslim countries, the Near East and Southeast Asia, collecting very large sums in them, but never being held accountable for the use of these funds.
It is true that some of this money was used by the Mufti to ignite in 1936 the revolt of the Palestinian Arabs against the British and the Jews. But when they sided with him at the end of the first phase of the uprising (autumn 1936), Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany, his coffers enjoyed a fascist-Nazi grant of 60,000 Israeli pounds. The Mufti was imposing "rebellion taxes" on the inhabitants of the country: On the rich, peasants and the middle class. However, he refused to support the widows and orphans of his warriors, and bitter was the plight of these bereaved families, who were left without means.

When he fled Jerusalem in the fall of 1937 and settled in Lebanon, he could afford a prince's life in the fancy resort places. When he arrived in Baghdad in 1939, he made sure that the Iraqi parliament decided to allocate 20,000 pounds to finance his needs; almost all of that money went into his pocket.

"I suppose, feeling that the collapse of the Reich was approaching, Haj Amin transferred large sums of money to Swiss banks. This assumption can be reinforced by the fact that before the end of the war he tried to find refuge in Switzerland, but was caught on his way to the Swiss border by the French."

Attached to this article is the following documentation (authentic documents):

1) Approval for financial assistance to Mufti by the Vichy government in Lebanon in March 1940.

2) Confirmation by the Mufti of receiving 60,000 marks from Germany during his stay in Rome in March 1942.

3) A draft prepared by the Mufti for an agreement with Germany and Italy. Note Article 7 which states that both countries will recognize the right of the Arabs to treat the Jews of Israel in the same way that the Axis countries treat the Jews.

4) Ribbentrop promises the Mufti that Germany will provide all assistance to the destruction of the Jewish national home in Israel - April 1942.

5) Excerpt from the Mufti's letter to the Hungarians in which he offers them to prevent Jews from leaving for Israel and to transfer them to Poland - 1944.

7) Fritz Groba, the Mufti's contact and host in Berlin, confirms that the Mufti's men and Rashid al-Khilani
They toured a concentration camp near Berlin - June 1942.

Haviv Kanaan, "Matayim yeme ḥaradah: Erets-Yisrael mul tseva Romel," (Mul-eret, 1973), p. 12. (p.240).

https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/hbkr/1947/11/21/01/article/37

⁨⁨Haboker⁩ - ⁨הבקר⁩⁩, 21 November 1947

Dr. Adnan al-Ard throws around dollars in Germany

Letter from Berlin from Ahi-Hulda
‘Hadoar’

Much has been written about Arab activist activism in the service of the Nazis during the war years in the last three years.

If there are also many more tevers to discover this affair of Nazi-Arab cooperation, however, the intent of the following is to reveal a bit, to some extent the Arab activity that has been going on in Germany and Austria since the end of the war.

In addition to Arab leaders from all Arab countries found in Germany at the end of the war, more than three hundred Arabs sat in it. About sixty of them are [E.Y.] “Palestinians”, some of them young people who went to Germany to study and remained stuck there with the outbreak of the war, then were demanded to cooperate in the German propaganda efforts. Others were mostly rebellious and exiled “activists” who found refuge in the shadow of Nazi Germany and served it in various ways in its plans to occupy the Middle East.

One of the Nashshibi family for example, who studied medicine in Vienna, served as a doctor in death camps. Mostly in Mauthausen and no doubt murdered hundreds of people

Another Arab young man from Jaffa, who also studied medicine in Austria, was engaged in “medical experiments” in a labor camp for Jewish women in Silesia.

Many Arabs were busy with the German broadcasting services to the Muslim world. While others served as spies and advisers to Middle East affairs.
Only a few of the Arabs found in Germany at the outbreak of the war maintained their duty as citizens of their countries of origin and were not defiled by Nazi antics.

With the eradication of the Nazis, some of the Arab collaborators managed to escape to Switzerland, Sweden and other countries and return from there to their country. Some openly and some in secret. The majority of German Arabs moved to underground life. The traces of most of them were soon discovered by the British and American military authorities...

An emissary from Syria

A new chapter in Arab activity in Germany and Austria opened in the summer of 1946, when a special envoy arrived in Germany from Syria, whose job was to take care of all Arab affairs in Germany and gather their dispersals.

Dr. Adnan al-Ard, a Syrian lawyer, a member of a privileged family, came to Vienna in July 1946 as a military correspondent for a tiny Syrian newspaper.

The officers of the British Army’s press service informed me in August this year that since his arrival, for a whole year, he had not sent a single line to the newspaper in whose name he appears nor to any other newspaper. It is clear, therefore, that Dr. Ard’s journalism is nothing but a cover for another activity.

Dr. Ard brought with him important recommendations from the American delegation in Cairo and from the heads of British diplomatic and military agents in several capitals in the Middle East.

He often openly violated various military regulations and laws, and no one rebuked him. Dr. Ard’s pockets were full of pounds and dollars, gold coins and valuables. For no British or American officer and journalist were the laws of the currency removed, and they had to hand over their money to the military authorities and receive in return the military banknotes customary in the various occupied territories. Not so when it comes to Dr. Ard.

In a mysterious way his dollar treasure was always filling up, and even growing. Dr. Ard could always be seen in the company of high-ranking British and American officers, German women and Arab collaborators.

While representatives of the British press would deal with all sorts of guilt of exchanging money on the Jewish thirds and imagining the remains of the massacre with pockets full of dollars,

While representatives of the British press would falsely come up with all sorts of accusations of smuggling money on Jews.. and imagined the survivors of the massacre with pockets full of dollars, none of them dared to put on the pages of his newspaper a brief account of the actions of the Arab agent

SS officers - To the east

Near his arrival in Vienna, Dr. Ard launched a wide-ranging operation to contact all Arab exiles and to purchase all documents relating to the activities of Arabs in Germany.

It was evident that the Arabs knew of the reality of valuable archives, not yet fallen into the hands that might use them to their detriment, and had given instructions to their agent to purchase whatever else could be saved.

In Nuremberg, Dr. Ard made great efforts to eliminate the accusation that was in the hands of the Americans on an Arab personality and failed. But other documents apparently fell to him.

In Berlin he had open connections with Kawkaji and he is the one who arranged for him all the papers and travel documents that transported Kawkaji from his hiding place in Germany to Syria.

He also recently opened an office in Berlin for him, called the “Arab Intelligence Office”, through which he reconnected with Nazi agents operating in the Middle East and their pals and friends in Arab countries.

There are basis to the news that he is now engaged in recruiting SS officers, and the Gestapo for all sorts of roles in Arab countries. And there is no need to speculate much about the roles intended for these Nazi thugs in the Middle East.

There are even rumors that some of the directors of the extermination operation of the Jews in Europe, including Eichmann, are in contact with this office and some of them have already been transferred to “jobs” in Syria and Iraq.

What is still forbidden about the Germans is allowed to Dr. Ard and his Arab friends.

They conduct open and wild incitement against the Jews at all kinds of parties and meetings. Dr. Ard himself lectures to various German circles and spices up his lectures with insults and ridicule to the Jews, which were very pleasant to the palates of the Nazis.

A few months ago he lectured on the question of Israel to American officers and almost all of his remarks were devoted to an attack on “international Jewry.”

There is no doubt that the much-felt feature of the Arab camp in connection with the solution of the Palestine problem is largely related to the actions of the Arab agents in Germany and Austria.

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[عدنان الارض]

ד”ר עדנאן אל-ערד מפזר דולרים בגרמניה

מכתב מברלין מאת אחי-חולדה
‘הדואר’

על פעילית מנהיגים ערבים שעבת בשירות הנאצים בשנות המלחמה כבר נכתב הרבה בשלש השנים האחרונות.

אם גם יש עוד טפחים רבים לגלות בפרשה זו של שיתוף פעולה נאצי-ערבי. אולם כוונת הדברים הבאים היא לחשוף במקצת את הפעילות הערבית המתנהלת בגרמניחףה ובאוסטריה מאז נסתיימה המלחמה.

נוסף למנהיגים ערבים מכל מדינות ערב שנמצאו בגרמניה עם תום המלחבה ישבו בה למעלה משלש מאות ערבים. מהם כששים ארצישראלים, כמה מהם היו צעירים שנסעו לגרמניה להשתלם בלימודים ונשארו תקועים בה

עם פרוץ המלחמה, ואז נתבעו לשתף פעולה במאמצי התעמולה של הגרמנים, אחרים היו בעיקר מרדנים ו”עסקנים” גולים שמצאו מחסה בצל גרמניה הנאצית ושימשו אותה בדרכים שתות בתוכניותיה לכבוש את המזרח התיכון.

אחד מבני משפחת נאששיבי למשל, שהשתלם ברפואה בוינה, שימש רופא במחנות-מות. בעיקר במאוטהאוזן ורצח בלי ספק מאות אנשים

צעיר ערבי אחר מיפו, שגם הוא למד רפואה באוסטריה, עסק ב”נסיונות רפואיים” במחנה עבודה לנשים יהודיות בשלזיה.
ערבים רבים היו עסוקים בשירותי השידור של הגרמנים לעולם המוסלמי. בעוד שאחרים שימשו כמרגלים ויועצים לעניני המזרח התיכון. רק מעטים מבין הערבים שנמצאו בגרמניה בעת פרוץ המלחמה שמרו על חובתם כאזרחי מדינות מוצאם ולא נטמאו בתעלולי הנאצים.

עם מיגור הנאצים הצליח חלק ממשתפי-הפעולה הערבים לחמוק לשוויץ. שבדיה וארצות אחרות ולחזור משם לארצם. מי בגלוי ומי בהחבא. חלק הארי של ערביי גרמניה עבר לחיי מחתרת. עד מהרה נתגלו עקבות רובם לשלטונות הצבאיים הבריטיים והאמריקאיים..

שליח מסוריה

פרק חדש בפעילות הערבים בגרמניה ובאוסטריה נפתח בקיץ 1946, משהגיע לגרמניה מסוריה שליח מיוחד, שתפקידו היה לטפל בכל עניני הערבים בגרמניה ולקבל את פזוריהם.
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דיר עדנאן אל-ערר. עורך-דין סורי, בן למשפחה מיוחסת, בא ביולי ‭1946‬ לוינה ככתב צבאי של עחון סורי זעיר.

קציני ספיקת העתונות של הצבא הבריטי באוסטריה מסרו לי באוגוסט שנה זו, כי מאז בואו, במשך שנה שלמה, לא שלח אפילו שורה אחת לעתון שבשמה הוא מופיע ולא לשום עתון אחר. ברור על כן, כי עתונאותו של ד”ר ערד אינה אלא כסות-עינים לפעילות אחרת.

ד”ר ערר הביא עמו המלצות חשובות מצירות האמריקאית בקאהיר ומראשי הסוכנים הדיפלומטיים והצבאיים הבריטיים בכמה מבירות במזרח התיכון. בוינה נתנו לו לד”ר ערד מטעם השלטונות הצבאיים הבריטיים והאמריקאיים רשיונות, תעודות ואפשרויות תנועה ועבודה בשירותי התחבורה הצבאיים שלא זכה עד כה שום עתונאי.

היא עבר פעמים רבות בגלוי על הוראות וחוקים צבאיים שונים, ולא נזף בו איש. כיסיו של ד”ר ערד היו מלאים לירות ודולרים, מטבעות-זהב וחפצי-ערך. לגבי שום קצין ועתונאי בריטי או אמריקאי לא הוסרו חוקי הוואלוטה, והיה עליהם למסור את כספם לשלטונות הצבאיים ולקבל תמורתו את שטרי הכסף הצבאיים הנהוגים בשטחי הכבוש השונים. לא כן ביחס לד”ר ערד.

בדרך מסתורית היה אוצר הדולארים של מתמלא תמיד, ואף הולך וגדל. תמיד אפשר היה לראות את ד”ר ערד בחברת קצינים בריטיים ואמריקאיים גבוהים, נשים גרמניות ומשתפי-פעולה ערבים. בעוד שנציגי העתונות הבריטים היו טופלים כל מיני אשמות של הברחת כספים על השלישים היהודים וראו בדמיונם את שרידי הטבח עם כיסים מלאים דולארים, לא העז איש מהם להעלות על דפי עתונו ידיעה קצרה על מעשיו של הסוכן הערבי.

קציני ס.ס. - למזרח

סמוך לבואו לווינה, פתח ד”ר ערד בפעולה רחבה ליצירת קשר עם כל הגולים הערבים ולרכישת כל המסמכים הנוגעים לפעילותם של ערבים בגרמניה.
ניכר היה כי הערבים ידעו על מציאותם של ארכיונים בעלי ערך, טרם נפלו לידים העשויות להשתמש בהם לרעתם, ונתנו הוראות לסוכנם לרכוש כל מה שניתן עוד להציל.

בנירנברג עשה ד”ר ערד מאמצים גדולים לסלק את חומר האשמה שהיה ביד האמריקאים על אישיות ערבית ולא הצליח. אבל מסמכים אחרים נפלו כנראה לידו.

בברלין היו לו קשרים גלויים עם קאוקאג’י והוא-הוא שסידר בשבילו את כל התעודות ומסמכי הנסיעה שהעבירו את קאוקאג’י ממקום מחבואו בגרמניה לסוריה.

הוא גם פתח לו בזמן האחרון משרד בברלין “משרד מודיעין ערבי”, ובאמצעותו הוא מחדש את הקשרים בין סוכנים נאציים שפעלו במזרח התיכון לבין אנשי שלומם וחבריהם בארצות ערב.

יש גם רגלים לידיעות כי הוא עוסק עתה בגיוס קציני ס.ס. וגסטאפו לכל מיני תפקידים בארצות ערב, ואיו צורך להרבות בניחושים על התפקידים המיועדים לבריונים נאצים אלה במזרח התיכון.
מהלכות אפילו שמועות, כי כמה ממנהלי פעולת ההשמדה של היהודים באירופה, ובהם אייכמאן, נמצאים בקשר עם משרד זה וחלק מהם כבר הועבר ל”משרות” בסוריה ובעיראק.

דבר האסור עוד על הגרמנים מותר לד”ר ערד וידידיו הערבים.

אלה מנהלים בכל מיני מסיבות ופגישות הסתה גלויה ופרועה נגד היהודים. ד”ר ערד עצמו מרצה בפני חוגים גרמנים שונים ומתבל הרצאותיו בדברי משטמה ולעג ליהודים, הנעימו מאד לחיכם של הנאצים.

לפני כמה חדשים הרצה על שאלת ארץ-ישראל בפני קצינים אמריקאים וכמעט כל דבריו היו מוקדשים להתקפה על “היהדות הבינלאומית”.

אין ספק כי התכונה הרבה המורגשת במחנה הערבי בקשר לפתרון בעית ארץ-ישראל קשורה במידה מרובה בפעולות הסוכנים הערבים בגרמניה ובאוסטריה.

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