Chronology of
Arabic Nazism

  1. Falastin analyzed Adolf Hitler’s Jew-hatred, dictatorship and territorial program, rejecting his policy as a path to peace.

  2. German consul Heinrich Wolff reported that محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI welcomed Nazi rule and hoped fascist government would spread.

  3. يونس السبعاوي YUNUS AS-SABAWI began serializing Arabic excerpts from Mein Kampf in a Baghdad newspaper.

  4. A Falastin columnist claimed widespread Arab sympathy for Adolf Hitler’s Germany while rejecting a German mandate.

  5. al-Difaʿ circulated Alfred Rosenberg’s false defense of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an authentic conspiracy by יהודים YEHUDIM.

  6. Falastin reported Bern testimony exposing the Protocols as a forgery and discrediting a Nazi expert.

  7. Nazi Germany clarified its racial laws for Egypt and Iran while keeping יהודים YEHUDIM excluded.

  8. An anonymous Cairo pamphlet portrayed יהודים YEHUDIM as Islam’s eternal enemies; Nazi Germany subsequently republished it.

  9. عبد־الرحمن بدوي ABD-AR-RAḤMAN BADAWI later described his summer 1938 articles for Young Egypt

  10. Thirty al-Futuwwa members from the Kingdom of Iraq attended the Nuremberg rally and toured Germany as Hitler Youth guests.

  11. Falastin summarized Mein Kampf, foregrounding dictatorship, racial supremacy, expulsion of יהודים YEHUDIM and conquest.

  12. The same issue reported Italian fascist threats against יהודים YEHUDIM in the Kingdom of Italy over opposition abroad.

  13. Joseph Goebbels recorded plans for broadcasts in English, Arabic and Irish intended to pressure the English Empire.

  14. During the week beginning 20 March 1939, listeners in ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL heard experimental Nazi Arabic broadcasts from Radio Berlin.

  15. يونس بحري YUNUS BAḤRI later dated his first Arabic broadcast from Berlin to 7 April 1939.

  16. Radio Berlin began regular evening Arabic news broadcasts, according to Goldenbaum’s reconstruction.

  17. An Arab informant reported Arabs listening to a Nazi Arabic broadcast around a יפו YAFO café and from nearby balconies.

  18. محمد نجاتي صدقي MOHAMED NAJATI SIDQI dated the preface to his Arabic book arguing that Islam and Nazism were incompatible.

  19. In the Kingdom of Iraq, the Golden Square forced طه الهاشمي TAHA AL-HAŜIMI's resignation and returned راشد علي الكيلاني RASID ALI AL-GAYLANI to power.

  20. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI called Muslims through Baghdad radio to support the Kingdom of Iraq’s holy war against the English Empire.

  21. May 1941

  22. An Axis-arranged arms train reached Mosul after Nazi aircraft began arriving to sustain راشد علي الكيلاني RASID ALI AL-GAYLANI’s government.

  23. Baghdad radio summoned the Youth Battalions; four hundred rifles and ammunition were distributed the next morning.

  24. Officials of the Kingdom of Iraq signed an armistice after راشد علي الكيلاني RASID ALI AL-GAYLANI and محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI fled Baghdad.

  25. Soldiers, police and civilians attacked יהודים YEHUDIM in Baghdad during שבועות ŜAVUʾOT, killing, raping and looting after the Nazi-supported government’s collapse.

  26. The Kingdom of Iraq's inquiry identified propaganda, radio, youth organizations, soldiers and police among the Farhud's causes.

  27. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI asked Benito Mussolini for Arab independence, arms and abolition of the national home for יהודים YEHUDIM.

  28. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI offered Joachim von Ribbentrop revolt, sabotage and an Arab Legion while requesting an Axis declaration.

  29. Adolf Hitler gave محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI a conditional promise to destroy the population of יהודים YEHUDIM in the Arab region under English protection.

  30. A Nazi Arabic broadcast addressed Arabs in ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL and presented محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI's presence in Berlin as a path to liberation.

  31. Nazi Germany promised fellow antizionists محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI and راشد علي الكيلاني RASID ALI AL-GAYLANI support for destroying the national home for יהודים YEHUDIM.

  32. The Berlin-produced Voice of Free Arabism called on Arabs in Syria, the Kingdom of Iraq and ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL to kill יהודים YEHUDIM.

  33. Nazi Germany dispatched Einsatzkommando Egypt to await a possible advance toward the Kingdom of Egypt and ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL.

  34. راشد علي الكيلاني RASID ALI AL-GAYLANI asked Nazi racial officials whether their policy targeted Arabs; Walter Gross replied by separating Arabs from the Jews whom Nazi Germany persecuted.

  35. Nazi Arabic radio broadcast the racial assurance addressed to Arabs.

  36. A German Foreign Ministry spokesman publicly claimed that Nazi racial policy targeted יהודים YEHUDIM, not Arabs.

  37. Late 1942

  38. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI delivered a Jew-hating speech at the Islamic Central Institute in Berlin.

  39. A Nazi Arabic newscast transmitted محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI's Berlin speech to the Arab world.

  40. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI began an SS-sponsored journey through Bosnia during Waffen-SS recruitment.

  41. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI urged the Kingdom of Bulgaria to prevent 4,000 children of יהודים YEHUDIM and 500 adults from reaching ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL.

  42. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI asked Joachim von Ribbentrop to stop Balkan יהודים YEHUDIM from reaching ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL.

  43. Radio Berlin defended Nazi Jew-hating laws and presented them as a model for confronting יהודים YEHUDIM.

  44. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI urged the Fascist government of the Kingdom of Italy to block rescue routes from the Balkans to ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL.

  45. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI urged the Kingdom of Romania to send children of יהודים YEHUDIM to Nazi-occupied Poland instead of ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL.

  46. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI urged the Kingdom of Hungary to send children of יהודים YEHUDIM to Nazi-occupied Poland instead of ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL, into the territory of mass extermination.

  47. A photograph cataloged to this date records محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI with Heinrich Himmler; the meeting is also dated to the preceding day.

  48. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI wished Heinrich Himmler success and closer cooperation toward their shared goals.

  49. Heinrich Himmler proclaimed Nazi Germany’s fight against יהודים YEHUDIM and Arab opposition to their national restoration a natural alliance.

  50. Radio Berlin rejected cooperation between Arabs and יהודים YEHUDIM in ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL as surrender and betrayal.

  51. Radio Berlin portrayed Arabs and Muslims as fighting a racial and religious war with יהודים YEHUDIM.

  52. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI used a Nazi Arabic broadcast to call on Arabs to kill יהודים YEHUDIM wherever they found them.

  53. Nazi officials’ planned International Anti-Jewish Congress in Krakow never met; they had canceled it in June.

  54. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI proposed an Arab-Muslim army to fight beside Nazi Germany.

  55. A Nazi German-Arab commando parachuted near יריחו YERIḪO during Operation Atlas.

  56. Soviet forces occupied the Zeesen transmitter complex after its remaining personnel had shut down the stations.

  57. حسن البنا ḤASAN AL-BANA thanked French authorities for shielding محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI from the English Empire.

  58. محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI escaped French custody and reached Cairo under an alias.

  59. A Muslim Brotherhood bulletin celebrated محمد أمين الحسيني MOHAMED AMIN AL-ḤUSAYNI's return and his wartime alliance with Adolf Hitler.

  60. Former Operation Atlas commando حسن سلامة ḤASAN SALAMA led an assault on the Hatikvah neighborhood of תל אביב TEL AVIV.

  61. فوزي القاوقجي FAWZI AL-QAWUQJI, who had served the Axis cause in wartime Iraq and spent the remaining war in Germany, entered ארץ ישראל EREẒ YISRAʾEL commanding the Arab Liberation Army.

  62. Nazi fugitive Franz Stangl reached Damascus and found textile employment after escaping European custody.

  63. Nazi fugitive Walter Rauff left Italy for Syria around mid-November, subsequently reported as a Syrian government military adviser.

  64. Nazi intelligence officer Wilhelm Beisner arrived in Cairo, where he renewed wartime contacts and pursued arms business.

  65. JTA identified former SS executive Wilhelm Voss as an Egyptian government adviser serving in a trade delegation.

  66. أنور السادات ANWAR AS-SADAT saluted Hitler in a hypothetical letter, preserving admiration for the dictator after Nazi Germany's defeat.

  67. An intelligence record cited by later historians concerns Nazi official Joachim Deumling's Egyptian employment.

  68. JTA reported Nazi official Franz Rademacher living and conducting business in Damascus under an assumed name.

  69. JTA reported Nazi propagandist Johann von Leers employed by Egypt's Ministry of National Guidance.

  70. Egypt retracted its claim to hold Nazi fugitive Hans Eisele, leaving the extradition effort without a prisoner to surrender.

  71. The Arab Republic of Egypt remained a Nazi refuge: Aribert Heim's dated letter requested renewed residence under a changed identity.

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  73. TIME reported on Nazi perpetrator Alois Brunner's unrepentant Jew-hatred and continued refuge in Syria, drawing on Bunte's interview.

  74. حماس ḤAMĀS's charter invoked The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as evidence of a worldwide conspiracy.

  75. AFP documented Arabic Mein Kampf sales at a Ramallah bookshop: sixth on that shop's list, with fewer than ten copies sold weekly.

  76. يوسف القرضاوي YUSUF AL-QARAḌAWI presented Hitler's murder of יהודים YEHUDIM as divine punishment and anticipated another punishment delivered by believers.

  77. وفاء موسى WAFAʾ MUSA told viewers of حماس ḤAMĀS's Al-Aqsa TV that יהודים YEHUDIM deserved Hitler's annihilation of them.

  78. Reuters reporting on Gaza's Hitler 2 clothing shop paired knife-bearing mannequins with a speaker's explicit admiration for Hitler's Jew-hatred.

  79. محمود عباس MAḤMUD ʿABBAS blamed יהודים YEHUDIM's supposed economic conduct for Hitler's persecution in a speech to Fatah's Revolutionary Council.