Le croissant et la croix gammée

Résumé du livre

After 1936 the Reich Kolonialbund and the Abwehr infiltrated the Middle East, especially Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. The Nazis favored Jewish emigration to Palestine from 1933, until they perceived the possible creation of a Jewish state, and began supporting the Arabs in the riots of 1936-39. Nazi political and military support, as well as the anti-British and anti-Jewish ideology of the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husaini, stood behind Rashid Ali's coup d'etat in Iraq in April 1941, which resulted also in the killing of 100 Jews. Fleeing Baghdad after the crush of the pro-Nazi regime, Husaini took refuge in Berlin, strengthening the Islamic-Nazi alliance against the Jews and the British. He raised Bosnian and Albanian Muslim troops for the Waffen-SS in 1943, and did broadcasts for Radio Berlin in the Arabic language. After World War II the Mufti continued to lead the Arab struggle against Jews and the Jewish state, as did other Arabs who collaborated with the Third Reich, and many ex-Nazis who took refuge in Arab countries.