Language:
German
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Geschichte und Gesellschaft; Zeitschrift für historische Sozialwissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
37,3 (2011) 359-384
Keywords:
Ḥusaynī, Amīn,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Public opinion
;
Arabs Attitudes
Abstract:
Traces the collaboration between Arab exiles living in Berlin, led by Haj Amin al-Husseini, and the Nazi regime in producing Arab-language Nazi propaganda aimed at North Africa and the Middle East. The resulting radio and printed propaganda displayed a fusion between Nazi ideology on the one hand and radical Arab nationalism and Islamist ideology on the other. Analyzes central themes in the propaganda campaign carried out by the Nazis between 1941-45 as part of their effort to expand the Final Solution to the 700,000 Jews living in North Africa and the Middle East. Following al-Husseini's example, Arab exiles supported the radicalization of their tradition through a selective reading of the Qur'an, which gave Muslims access to radical Nazi antisemitism. Nazi officials and ideologists learned how to process Arab-language propaganda and base it on Islamic anti-Judaism. The Jews were presented as the arch-enemies of Islam, and Arabs were urged to kill the Jews before the Jews killed them. Shows that al-Husseini's contribution to the globalization of European hatred of the Jews was clearly manifested in the radio broadcasts. After the war al-Husseini became the most important leader of the Palestinian national movement. His postwar success proved the effective force of the political-ideological fusion between Nazism, Arab nationalism, and Islamism. It was picked up by the ideological leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sayyid Qutb, whose writings continue to inspire Islamists.
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