Former German soldier traces Middle East crisis to Nazis

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Former German soldier traces Middle East crisis to Nazis

Chad Groening and Jody Brown
OneNewsNow.com
April 24, 2007

An author who served as a German soldier during World War II says the Middle East crisis of today can be traced to Adolph Hitler, the Nazis, and a Muslim "grand mufti" who tried to persuade Nazi leaders to extend their anti-Jewish hatred to the Arab world.

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Hilmar von Campe has written an autobiography called How Was it Possible?, which provides a insight into the relationship between Adolph Hitler's Nazi regime and Islam. The former Hitler youth says there was a very good relationship between the Jews and the Arabs before the war. "The Arab leaders of that time invited the Jews back to Palestine and said together we can really make progress," he shares.

But then, according to von Campe, Hitler invited a Muslim leader to come live in Berlin. "It was a grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was a guest of Hitler from 1941 to 1945 in Berlin," he states. The author says al-Husseini was provided a luxurious home by the Nazis and received the equivalent of $10,000 every month. "And he plotted with Hitler how to destroy Israel and kill the Jews," adds von Campe.

Al-Husseini assisted in the Holocaust, says the author, and helped spur hatred against the Jews in much of the Middle East. "When he came back to Jerusalem, he turned the tide against the Jews and he launched the idea that the Jews have no right to the land on which they lived," he says.

According to the online Jewish Virtual Library, after the war Yugoslavia sought to indict al-Husseini as a war criminal for his role in recruiting 20,000 Muslim volunteers for Hitler's "Schutzstaffel" (SS), who participated in the execution of Jews in Croatia and Hungary. But he escaped from French detention in 1946 and continued his fight against the Jews from locations in the Middle East. He died in 1974.

Von Campe contends that al-Husseini helped create a pro-Nazi attitude in the Middle East, which spawned groups like Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization.