Language:
German
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
61,3 (2009) 280-286
Keywords:
Gensicke, Klaus.
;
Ḥusaynī, Amīn,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Foreign public opinion, Eretz Israel
Abstract:
Presents an overview of recent German research on wartime relationships between Palestinian Arabs and the Nazis. Criticizes historians Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers for over-interpreting their sources concerning "Einsatzkommando Ägypten". Contests their thesis that the Einsatzkommando was established in Greece in 1942 for the purpose of killing the Jews of mandatory Palestine, had the Germans arrived there. The two historians' view of the Arabs and Palestinians as Nazi enthusiasts, who would have turned not only against the British but also against the Jews, is ill-founded. Regarding the role of the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husaini, states that the two historians base their assumption of his intimate collaboration with Eichmann on postwar witnesses only, and on Klaus Gensicke's study from 1988, republished by Mallman. Views René Wildangel's recent thesis on the Palestinians and the Nazis as an attempt to balance the picture, but argues that it is not free from unconscious pro-Palestinian bias. Concludes that German Middle East research has been impeded by a lack of language skills, which has prevented historians from soliciting Arab-language sources.
DOI:
10.1163/157007309788620746
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