In chilling detail, the report also elaborates on the close working relationship between Nazi leaders and the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who later claimed that he sought refuge in wartime Germany only to avoid arrest by the British.
In fact, the report says, the Muslim leader was paid an absolute fortune of 50,000 marks a month (when a German field marshal was making 25,000 marks a year). It also said he energetically recruited Muslims for the SS, the Nazi Partys elite military command, and was promised that he would be installed as the leader of Palestine after German troops drove out the British and exterminated more than 350,000 Jews there.
On Nov. 28, 1941, the authors say, Hitler told Mr. Husseini that the Afrika Corps and German troops deployed from the Caucasus region would liberate Arabs in the Middle East and that Germanys only objective there would be the destruction of the Jews.
The report details how Mr. Husseini himself was allowed to flee after the war to Syria he was in the custody of the French, who did not want to alienate Middle East regimes and how high-ranking Nazis escaped from Germany to become advisers to anti-Israeli Arab leaders and were able to carry on and transmit to others Nazi racial-ideological anti-Semitism.
You have an actual contract between officials of the Nazi Foreign Ministry with Arab leaders, including Husseini, extending after the war because they saw a cause they believed in, Dr. Breitman said. And after the war, you have real Nazi war criminals Wilhelm Beisner, Franz Rademacher and Alois Brunner who were quite influential in Arab countries.
