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- Subject: MEQ #23: Mufti meets Fuehrer [NEW]
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 06:02:23 GMT
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- MEQ #23. Der Fuehrer und der Grossmufti.
-
- The Grand Mufti first thanked the Feuhrer for the great honor of
- a personal reception. He further wished to take the opportunity
- to express his gratitude on behalf of the entire Arab world...
-
- The Arabs were, moreover, natural allies of Germany, as could be
- seen by their mutual enemies: the British, the Jews, and the
- Communists. As a result, the Arabs were prepared to collaborate
- wholeheartedly with Germany and to lend support to the war
- effort, not only through perpetrating acts of sabotage and
- political destabilizations, but materially, by forming an Arab
- Legion...
-
- The Mufti then recalled a document he had received from the German
- government, which stated that Germany had occupied no Arab land,
- that it recognized and sympathized with the Arab struggles for
- independence and liberation, and that it would support the
- elimination of a national Jewish homeland. A public declaration
- to this same effect would be of immense propagandistic value in
- the campaign to mobilize the Arab nations...
-
- ...
- The Fuehrer then made the following declaration, requesting
- the Mufti to lock it deep in his heart:
-
- 1) He (the Fuehrer) would carry on the fight until the last
- traces of the Jewish-Communist European hegemony had been
- obliterated.
-
- 2) In the course of this fight, the German army would - at a
- time that could not yet be specified, but in any case in
- the clearly foreseeable future - gain the southern exit of
- Caucasus.
-
- 3) As soon as this breakthrough was made, the Fuehrer would
- offer the Arab world his personal assurance that the hour
- of liberation had struck. Thereafter, Germany's only
- remaining objective in the region would be limited to the
- annihilation of the Jews [*] living under British
- protection in Arab lands...
-
- [Excerpts from a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin
- Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, on 28 November 1941.
- The notes were taken by Dr. Paul Otto Schmidt, a translator
- in the Foreign Minister's Secretariat.]
-
- Source:
- geheime Reichssache 57 a/41, quoted in G. Fleming, Hitler and
- the Final Solution (Univ of California Press, 1984) 101-104.
-
- [*] "Vernichtung des ...Judentums" in the German original.
- [Akten zur D. Aus. Pol. 1918-1945, Ser. D, XIII/2, p718]
- This phrase can reasonably be translated "annihilation of the
- Jews" as here, but weaker interpretations are possible.
- A query on soc.culture.german failed to resolve this issue
- despite more than 30 responses, ranging from "annihilation
- of the Jews is the only possible translation" to "a dramatic
- way to promise elimination of the Jewish national home".
- What the Mufti considered he had been promised is uncertain,
- as the only other record of the conversation, the Mufti's
- diary, says merely "annihilate the power that brings the Jews",
- maybe meaning Britain. [J. Peters, From Time Immemorial, p438]
- The strongest known promise ever made to the Mufti in writing
- was "abolition of the Jewish national home".
-
- Acknowledgement: Apart from the note, this MEQ was prepared by
- Danny Keren. The note was written by the editor.
-
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- Middle East Quotes is an occasional series of quotations on Middle
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