Reclaiming Israel's History by David Brog

Author:David Brog
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621576099
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2017-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

Beyond merely seeking to extend Hitler’s Holocaust to the Middle East, Husseini may well have played a role in persuading Hitler to murder Europe’s Jews in the first place.

Up until 1941, Hitler did not plan to kill the Jews in the lands he occupied; he merely wanted to expel them. At the same time, however, Hitler was aggressively courting Husseini as an ally who could deliver critical Arab and Muslim support to the Nazis. In January 1941, Husseini sent a letter to Hitler offering him an alliance provided certain conditions were met. One of his core demands was that Hitler prohibit Jewish emigration from the territory he controlled.75

In October 1941, as his first meeting with Husseini approached, Hitler officially outlawed the emigration of Jews from German-occupied territories.76 On November 28, 1941, Hitler held a ninety-minute meeting with Husseini in his Berlin headquarters. That same day—only a few hours later—Hitler ordered SS General Reinhard Heydrich to convene a conference to initiate the “final solution of the Jewish question.”77

The very next day, Heydrich sent invitations to thirteen high-ranking Nazi officials asking that they join him for a meeting in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. The “Wannsee Conference” would go down in history as the meeting at which the Holocaust was initiated. On December 4—well in advance of the conference—Eichmann personally briefed Husseini on the proposed Final Solution.78

This timing may represent nothing more than startling coincidence. Hitler might have eventually chosen the path of genocide no matter what the demands and counsel of his new Arab ally. But there is something about Hitler’s interactions with Husseini that seems to have affirmed his hate, pushed his hand, and moved him closer to the most horrific of actions.

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