Islamitische SS-divisies

De Mufti bij Hitler. De Mufti was de leraar van Arafat en de leider van het Arabische gebied rond WOII.

Arab leaders and media outlets have long been addicted to comparing Israel to the Nazi regime, while at the same time demeaning the extent of the Holocaust. This obsession with defaming and antagonizing the Jewish people and state was on full display in recent months and reached a crescendo - or rather nadir - the day before Pope John Paul II visited the Temple Mount during his Holy Land pilgrimage. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, just hours before hosting the Pope, gave a series of press interviews, first telling the AP: "The figure of 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust is exaggerated and is used by the Israelis to gain international support... It's not my problem. Muslims didn't do anything on this issue. It's the doing of Hitler who hated the Jews," asserted the acid-tongued Mufti - a figure appointed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. "Six million? It was a lot less," Sabri repeated for an Italian newspaper. "It's not my fault if Hitler hated the Jews. Anyway, they hate them just about everywhere." The Mufti finished the day with Reuters, charging, "We denounce all massacres, but I don't see why a certain massacre should be used for political gain and blackmail." However, as a matter of record, there was a well-documented, thriving relationship between the Arab/Muslim world and Nazi Germany, with perhaps the most significant figure linking Hitler to the Middle East being none other Sabri's very own predecessor, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini. Here is a brief review of that dark, overlooked chapter in history.

The Führer's Mufti: After World War I, the Great Powers of Europe jockeyed for influence in the Middle East's oil fields and trade routes, with France and Britain holding mandates throughout most of the region. In the 1930s, the fascist regimes that arose in Italy and Germany sought greater stakes in the area, and began courting Arab leaders to revolt against their British and French custodians. Among their many willing accomplices was Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini, who fled Palestine after agitating against the British during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. He found refuge in Iraq - another of Her Majesty's mandates - where he again topped the British most wanted list after helping pull the strings behind the Iraqi coup of 1941. The revolt in Baghdad was orchestrated by Hitler as part of a strategy to squeeze the region between the pincers of Rommel's troops in North Africa, German forces in the Caucuses and pro-Nazi forces in Iraq. However, in June 1941 British troops put down the rebellion and the Mufti escaped via Tehran to Italy and eventually to Berlin.

Once in Berlin, the Mufti received an enthusiastic reception by the "Islamische Zentralinstitut" and the whole Islamic community of Germany, which welcomed him as the "Führer of the Arabic world." In an introductory speech, he called the Jews the "most fierce enemies of the Muslims" and an "ever corruptive element" in the world. Husseini soon became an honored guest of the Nazi leadership and met on several occasions with Hitler. He personally lobbied the Führer against the plan to let Jews leave Hungary, fearing they would immigrate to Palestine. He also strongly intervened when Adolf Eichman tried to cut a deal with the British government to exchange German POWs for 5000 Jewish children who also could have fled to Palestine. The Mufti's protests with the SS were successful, as the children were sent to death camps in Poland instead. One German officer noted in his journals that the Mufti would liked to have seen the Jews "preferably all killed." On a visit to Auschwitz, he reportedly admonished the guards running the gas chambers to work more diligently. Throughout the war, he appeared regularly on German radio broadcasts to the Middle East, preaching his pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic message to the Arab masses back home.

To show gratitude towards his hosts, in 1943 the Mufti travelled several times to Bosnia, where on orders of the SS he recruited the notorious "Hanjar troopers," a special Bosnian Waffen SS company which slaugh-tered 90% of Bosnia's Jews and burned countless Serbian churches and villages. These Bosnian Muslim recruits rapidly found favor with SS chief Heinrich Himmler, who established a special Mullah Military school in Dresden.

The only condition the Mufti set for his help was that after Hitler won the war, the entire Jewish population in Palestine should be liquidated. After the war, Husseini fled to Switzerland and from there escaped via France to Cairo, were he was warmly received. The Mufti used funds received earlier from the Hilter regime to finance the Nazi-inspired Arab Liberation Army that terrorized Jews in Palestine.

The Arab Embrace of Nazism: Husseini represents the prevalent pro-Nazi posture among the Arab/Muslim world before, during and even after the Holocaust. The Nazi-Arab connection existed even when Adolf Hitler first seized power in Germany in 1933. News of the Nazi takeover was welcomed by the Arab masses with great enthusiasm, as the first congratulatory telegrams Hitler received upon being appointed Chancellor came from the German Consul in Jerusalem, followed by those from several Arab capitals. Soon afterwards, parties that imitated the National Socialists were founded in many Arab lands, like the "Hisb-el-qaumi-el-suri" (PPS) or Social Nationalist Party in Syria. Its leader, Anton Sa'ada, styled himself the Führer of the Syrian nation, and Hitler became known as "Abu Ali" (In Egypt his name was "Muhammed Haidar"). The banner of the PPS displayed the swastika on a black-white background. Later, a Lebanese branch of the PPS - which still receives its orders from Damascus - was involved in the assassination of Lebanese President Pierre Gemayel.

The most influential party that emulated the Nazis was "Young Egypt," which was founded in October 1933. They had storm troopers, torch processions, and literal translations of Nazi slogans - like "One folk, One party, One leader." Nazi anti-Semitism was replicated, with calls to boycott Jewish businesses and physical attacks on Jews. Britain had a bitter experience with this pro-German mood in Egypt, when the official Egyptian government failed to declare war on the Wehrmacht as German troops were about to conquer Alexandria.

After the war, a member of Young Egypt named Gamal Abdul Nasser was among the officers who led the July 1952 revolution in Egypt. Their first act - following in Hitler's footsteps - was to outlaw all other parties. Nasser's Egypt became a safe haven for Nazi war criminals, among them the SS General in charge of the murder of Ukrainian Jewry; he became Nasser's bodyguard and close comrade. Alois Brunner, another senior Nazi war criminal, found shelter in Damascus, where he served for many years as senior adviser to the Syrian general staff and still resides today.

Sami al-Joundi, one of the founders of the ruling Syrian Ba'ath Party, recalls: "We were racists. We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in reading Nazi literature and books... We were the first who thought of a translation of Mein Kampf. Anyone who lived in Damascus at that time was witness to the Arab inclination toward Nazism."

These leanings never completely ceased. Hitler's Mein Kampf currently ranks sixth on the best-seller list among Palestinian Arabs. Luis Al-Haj, translator of the Arabic edition, writes glowingly in the preface about how Hitler's "ideology" and his "theories of nationalism, dictatorship and race... are advancing especially within our Arabic States." When Palestinian police first greeted Arafat in the self-rule areas, they offered the infamous Nazi salute - the right arm raised straight and upward.

The PLO and notably Arafat himself do not make a secret of their source of inspiration. The Grand Mufti el-Husseini is venerated as a hero by the PLO. It should be noted, that the PLO's top figure in east Jerusalem today, Faisal Husseini, is the grandson to the Führer's Mufti. Arafat also considers the Grand Mufti a respected educator and leader, and in 1985 declared it an honor to follow in his footsteps. Little wonder. In 1951, a close relative of the Mufti named Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa el-Husseini matriculated to the University of Cairo. The student decided to conceal his true identity and enlisted as "Yasser Arafat."

Writers: Paul Longgrear, Raymond McNemar
Source: Canadian Friends, International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem
http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/medigest/may00/arabnazi.html

A picture taken in 1943 of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini reviewing Bosnian-Muslim troops - a unit of the "Hanjar (Saber) Division" of the Waffen SS which he personally recruited for Hitler.

Amin al-Husseini studied religious law at al-Azhar University, Cairo, and attended the Istanbul School of Administration. In 1913 he went to Mecca on a pilgrimage, earning the honorary title of "Haj". He voluntarily joined the Ottoman Turkish army in World War I but returned to Jerusalem in 1917 and expediently switched sides to aid the victorious British. He acquired the reputation as a violent, fanatical anti-Zionist zealot and was jailed by the British for instigating a 1920 Arab attack against Jews who were praying at the Western Wall.

The first Palestine High Commissioner. Sir Herbert Samuel arrived in Palestine on July 1, 1920. He was a weak administrator who was too ready to compromise and appease the extremist, nationalistic Arab minority led by Haj Amin al-Husseini. When the existing Arab Mufti of Jerusalem (religious leader) died in 1921, Samuels was influenced by anti-Zionist British officials on his staff. He pardoned al-Husseini and, in January 1922, appointed him as the new Mufti, and even invented a new title of Grand Mufti. He was simultaneously made President of a newly created Supreme Muslim Council. Al-Husseini thereby became the religious and political leader of the Arabs.

The appointment of the young al-Husseini as Mufti was a seminal event. Prior to his rise to power, there were active Arab factions supporting cooperative development of Palestine involving Arabs and Jews. But al-Husseini would have none of that; he was devoted to driving Jews out of Palestine, without compromise, even if it set back the Arabs 1000 years.

William Ziff, in his book "The Rape of Palestine," summarizes:

Implicated in the [1920] disturbances was a political adventurer named Haj Amin al Husseini. Haj Amin, was sentenced by a British court to fifteen years hard labor. Conveniently allowed to escape by the police, he was a fugitive in Syria. Shortly after, the British then allowed him to return to Palestine where, despite the opposition of the muslim High Council who regarded him as a hoodlum, Haj Amin was appointed by the British High Commissioner as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem for life. [P. 22]

Al-Husseini represented newly emerging proponents of militant, Palestinian Arab nationalism, a previously unknown concept. Once he was in power, he began a campaign of terror and intimidation against anyone opposed to his rule and policies. He killed Jews at every opportunity, but also eliminated Arabs who did not support his campaign of violence. Husseini was not willing to negotiate or make any kind of compromise for the sake of peace.

As a young man, al-Husseini worked with a native Jew, Abbady, who documented this comment:

Remember, Abbady, this was and will remain an Arab land. We do not mind you natives of the country, but those alien invaders, the Zionists, will be massacred to the last man. We want no progress, no prosperity. Nothing but the sword will decide the fate of this country.

In 1929, major Arab riots were instigated against the Jews of Palestine. They began when al-Husseini falsely accused Jews of defiling and endangering local mosques, including al-Aqsa. The call went out to the Arab masses: "Itbakh al-Yahud!" -- "Slaughter the Jews!" After the killing of Jews in Hebron, the Mufti disseminated photographs of slaughtered Jews with the claim that the dead were Arabs killed by Jews.

In April, 1936 six prominent Arab leaders formed the Arab Higher Committee, with the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini as head of the organization, joining forces to protest British support of Zionist progress in Palestine. In the same month, riots broke out in Jaffa commencing a three-year period of violence and civil strife in Palestine that is known as the Arab Revolt. The Arab Higher Committee led the campaign of terrorism against Jewish and British targets.

Using the turmoil of the Arab Revolt as cover, al-Husseini consolidated his control over the Palestinian Arabs with a campaign of murder against Jews and non-compliant Arabs, the recruitment of armed militias, and the raising of funds from around the Muslim world using anti-Jewish propaganda. In 1937 the Grand Mufti expressed his solidarity with Germany, asking the Nazi Third Reich to oppose establishment of a Jewish state, stop Jewish immigration to Palestine, and provide arms to the Arab population. Following an assassination attempt on the British Inspector-General of the Palestine Police Force and the murder by Arab extremists of Jews and moderate Arabs, the Arab Higher Committee was declared illegal by the British. The Grand Mufti lost his office of President of the Supreme muslim Council, his membership on the Waqf committee, and was forced into exile in Syria in 1937. The British deported the Arab mayor of Jerusalem along with other members of the Arab Higher Committee.

According to documentation from the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, the Nazi Germany SS helped finance al-Husseini's efforts in the 1936-39 revolt in Palestine. Adolf Eichmann actually visited Palestine and met with al-Husseini at that time and subsequently maintained regular contact with him later in Berlin.

In 1940, al-Husseini requested the Axis powers to acknowledge the Arab right:

... to settle the question of Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the national and racial interests of the Arabs and along the lines similar to those used to solve the Jewish question in Germany and Italy.

While in Baghdad, Syria al-Husseini aided the pro-Nazi revolt of 1941. He then spent the rest of World War II as Hitler's special guest in Berlin, advocating the extermination of Jews in radio broadcasts back to the Middle East and recruiting Balkan Muslims for infamous SS "mountain divisions" that tried to wipe out Jewish communities throughout the region.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Eichmann's deputy Dieter Wisliceny (subsequently executed as a war criminal) testified:

The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan. ... He was one of Eichmann's best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz.

With the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Mufti moved to Egypt where he was received as a national hero. After the war al-Husseini was indicted by Yugoslavia for war crimes, but escaped prosecution. The Mufti was never tried because the Allies were afraid of the storm in the Arab world if the hero of Arab nationalism was treated as a war criminal.

From Egypt al-Husseini was among the sponsors of the 1948 war against the new State of Israel. Spurned by the Jordanian monarch, who gave the position of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem to someone else, Haj Amin al-Husseini arranged King Abdullah's assassination in 1951, while still living in exile in Egypt. King Tallal followed Abdullah as king of Jordan, and he refused to give permission to Amin al-Husseini to come into Jordanian Jerusalem. After one year, King Tallal was declared incompetent; the new King Hussein also refused to give al-Husseini permission to enter Jerusalem. King Hussein recognized that the former Grand Mufti would only stir up trouble and was a danger to peace in the region.

Haj Amin al-Husseini eventually died in exile in 1974. He never returned to Jerusalem after his 1937 departure. His place as leader of the radical, nationalist Palestinian Arabs was taken by his nephew Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Hussaeini, better known as Yasser Arafat. In August 2002, Arafat gave an interview in which he referred to "our hero al-Husseini" as a symbol of Palestinian Arab resistance.

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Most of the basic literature, while talking about WWII Independent State of Croatia (ISC), does not fail to mention that entire Bosnia-Herzegovina was part of this Nazi satellite. Whether the source is Jewish written "Encyclopedia of the Holocaust" or recently written book by British schollar Professor Cleve Ponting ("Armageddon") there is no dispute in the literature about the total count of the population of that country: 
 
Out of total 6.5 to 7 million people of (ISC) 
round 3.5 million were Croats 
round 2 million were Serbs 
Muslims totalled between 700,000 and 750,000 
40,000 were Jews, 30,000 Gypsies

It is obvious that Croatian fascists were atenormous task to exterminate almost a third of the population they got to control. This is why they tried hard to atract the Bosnian Muslims to help them. The response was overwhelming... 

It so happened that Husseini made his contribution to the Axis war effort in his capacity as a Muslim, rather than as an Arab leader, by recruiting and organizing in RECORD TIME, during the spring of 1943, BOSNIAN MUSLIM BATTALIONS in Croatia comprising some TWENTY THOUSAND MEN. These MUSLIM VOLUNTEER units, called Hanjar (Sword), were put in WAFFEN-SS fought Yugoslav partisans in Bosnia, and carried out police and security duties in Hungary. THEY PARTICIPATED IN THE MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS IN BOSNIA and VOLUNTEERED TO JOIN IN THE HUNT FOR JEWS IN CROATIA... The Germans made a point of publicizing the fact that Husseini had flown from Berlin to Sarajevo for the sole purpose of giving his blessing to the Muslim army and inspecting its arms and training exercises. 
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Volgens deze site http://members.tripod.com/~Sturmvogel/kama.html is het nooit een eenheid geweest en zijn de leden verspreid over andere onderdelen van de SS, tenminste: "So the Kama was broken up for use as replacements. The Muslims in the division were ordered to report to Handschar, but many took the opportunity to desert."

Bron: Norman Davies, Europe.

en waarom? alsof de bomaanslagen not niet erg genoeg zijn :|

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Op donderdag 30 januari 2003 13:20 schreef EnderOnline het volgende:
ieder redelijk mens ziet dat er geenf uck van klopt en dat het totaal onobjectief verhaaltje is zodner enige achtergronden...
en waarom? alsof de bomaanslagen not niet erg genoeg zijn :|

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Op donderdag 30 januari 2003 14:10 schreef Halinalle het volgende:
Dat was mij geheel onbekend. Ik wist niet dat moslims een rol van betekenis hadden in W.O. II.

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Op donderdag 30 januari 2003 13:20 schreef EnderOnline het volgende:
ieder redelijk mens ziet dat er geenf uck van klopt en dat het totaal onobjectief verhaaltje is zodner enige achtergronden...

en waarom? alsof de bomaanslagen not niet erg genoeg zijn :|

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De Islamitische SS-divisies waren zelfs erg succesvol.

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Op donderdag 30 januari 2003 14:56 schreef SportsIllustrated het volgende:
Uiteraard hebben er ook Moslims in de Britse en Franse legers meegevochten, begrijp me niet verkeerd.

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Drie divisies val wel mee eigenlijk. Vergeleken bij de westers-christelijk-humanistische achtergrond van het grootste deel van de legers van de Axis is dat volgens mij miniem. Alhoewel het natuurlijk lastig in te schatten is, wat zijn de percentages soldaten dat dienst heeft genomen tov de eigen bevolkingsgroep?

Ik wist trouwens niet dat Slaven bij de SS konden komen, ik dacht dat de SS een exclusieve Arierclub was.
Waar zijn die divisies trouwens ingezet?

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Op donderdag 30 januari 2003 15:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:

Ik wist trouwens niet dat Slaven bij de SS konden komen, ik dacht dat de SS een exclusieve Arierclub was.

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Waar zijn die divisies trouwens ingezet?

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Op donderdag 30 januari 2003 15:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Of bij de partizanen natuurlijk.

Drie divisies val wel mee eigenlijk. Vergeleken bij de westers-christelijk-humanistische achtergrond van het grootste deel van de legers van de Axis is dat volgens mij miniem. Alhoewel het natuurlijk lastig in te schatten is, wat zijn de percentages soldaten dat dienst heeft genomen tov de eigen bevolkingsgroep?

Ik wist trouwens niet dat Slaven bij de SS konden komen, ik dacht dat de SS een exclusieve Arierclub was.
Waar zijn die divisies trouwens ingezet?

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En inderdaad, de Slaven waren niet gelijkwaardig aan de Ariers, maar als ze bereid waren om je te helpen en ook nog eens vakkundige slagers waren, dan zou je natuurlijk wel gek zijn om hen te weigeren. Je kunt er naderhand altijd nog korte metten mee maken.

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Op donderdag 30 januari 2003 14:10 schreef Halinalle het volgende:
Dat was mij geheel onbekend. Ik wist niet dat moslims een rol van betekenis hadden in W.O. II.

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Op vrijdag 31 januari 2003 08:26 schreef Tia_Tijger het volgende:

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Dat is voor een reden, ze speelden geen enkele rol van betekenis.

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Hanjar troopers," a special Bosnian Waffen SS company which slaugh-tered 90% of Bosnia's Jews and burned countless Serbian churches and villages. These Bosnian Muslim recruits rapidly found favor with SS chief Heinrich Himmler, who established a special Mullah Military school in Dresden.

The only condition the Mufti set for his help was that after Hitler won the war, the entire Jewish population in Palestine should be liquidated.

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Op vrijdag 31 januari 2003 09:27 schreef X-Ray het volgende:

Daar dachten de vele duizenden slachtoffers op de balkan anders over...

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Grappig genoeg vochten er vele malen meer moslims aan Geallieerde kant maar die komen in jouw wereldvisie ineens niet meer voor..waarom toch?
Aziaten, Afrikanen, Noord-Afrikanen...Bij X-Ray bestaan ze ineens niet meer?

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Op donderdag 30 januari 2003 19:26 schreef SportsIllustrated het volgende:
Ik weet niet hoeveel van hen een Christelijk-humanistische achtergrond hadden. Veel nazi's waren tegen het Christendom gekant, en er werd ook niet naar religie gerecruteerd, behalve dan in het geval van de bovenstaande divisies.
Oh, de Kroaten werden wel op hun Katholicisme aangesproken, geloof ik, maar er waren geen speciale Rooms-Katholieke divisies.
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Op vrijdag 31 januari 2003 11:03 schreef Scipio het volgende:

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Een groot gedeelte van de Nederlandse SS-vrijwilligers waren Rooms-Katholieken die door meneer de priester werden gestimuleerd om te strijden tegen het atheïstische rode gevaar. Nazi's waren volgens mij over het algemeen ook eerder a-religieus, maar maakte dankbaar gebruik van de haat van gelovigen. Zie bovengenoemde moslims en de onder andere door mij genoemde Katholieken.

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Op vrijdag 31 januari 2003 10:47 schreef Tia_Tijger het volgende:

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Duizenden slachtoffers...in een oorlog die tientallen miljoenen doden kostte?

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Dat is een voetnoot in de historie, beste X-Ray, hoe hard jij ook probeert om de moslims als de bron van al het kwaad af te schilderen.

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Op die manier kunnen wij ook de duizenden slachtoffers op voeren die Nederlandse SS'ers op hun geweten hebben om een punt te 'bewijzen'.

Grappig genoeg vochten er vele malen meer moslims aan Geallieerde kant maar die komen in jouw wereldvisie ineens niet meer voor..waarom toch?
Aziaten, Afrikanen, Noord-Afrikanen...Bij X-Ray bestaan ze ineens niet meer?

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Nazi's waren volgens mij over het algemeen ook eerder a-religieus, maar maakte dankbaar gebruik van de haat van gelovigen

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Op vrijdag 31 januari 2003 11:16 schreef Wiking het volgende:

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Daarom droeg de SS ook geen riemgesp met: "Got mit uns", zoals de Wehrmacht, maar met "Mein ehre heist treue", omdat het niet met een religie gebonden zou worden.
De reden hiervoor is denk ik, dat het een onafhankelijk leger moest zijn, dat alleen trouw was aan de Fuhrer, dit zelfs boven een geloof in een god.

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Op die manier kunnen wij ook de duizenden slachtoffers op voeren die Nederlandse SS'ers op hun geweten hebben om een punt te 'bewijzen'.

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Op vrijdag 31 januari 2003 11:19 schreef X-Ray het volgende:
Tja, de SS waren 1 vd meest smerige legergroepen die ooit bestaan heeft. De Wehrmacht gedroeg zich (heel erg relatief gezien natuurlijk) redelijk 'netjes' ten opzichte van de bevolking. De SS daar in tegen kwam erna langs om de vrouwen en kinderen nog even koud te maken
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De Waffen SS was een elite eenheid, die aan alle fronten heeft gevochten, maar vooral in Rusland. Zij waren de "brandweer" van de Führer en werden overal ingezet waar de frontlinie dreigde te breken. Het waren geen lieverdjes, maar dat waren de Russen aan het Oostfront ook niet. Huidige leger van de VS en Engeland zijn zelfs gemoddeleerd naar de Waffen SS.