When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hitler got the idea of perpetrating the Holocaust from Haj Amin al-Husseini, as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from 1922 to 1948 spiritual leader of the Arabs in Palestine, he predictably ignited a firestorm. In fact, as this Israel Network video (4:56) shows, the mufti’s role in the Nazi genocidal enterprise was that of eager collaborator and cheerleader, though not as instigator. (He also eagerly incorporated Soviet communism into his totalitarian arsenal.)
Scholar Jeffrey Herf recently addressed this issue in a Times of Israel posting:
The now widely accepted international consensus among historians of the Holocaust is that Hitler had both made the decisions to implement the Final Solution and had communicated those decisions to key actors in the Nazi regime at the latest a month before his meeting with Husseini on November 28th.…
…Hitler had referred to “the total destruction of the Judeo-Communist empire in Europe.… It is [in] the extension of the Final Solution beyond the shores of Europe… that Haj Amin al-Husseini came to play a prominent role.”
http://spectator.org/articles/64637/will-our-values-make-us-seek-peace-genocide
Scholar Jeffrey Herf recently addressed this issue in a Times of Israel posting:
The now widely accepted international consensus among historians of the Holocaust is that Hitler had both made the decisions to implement the Final Solution and had communicated those decisions to key actors in the Nazi regime at the latest a month before his meeting with Husseini on November 28th.…
…Hitler had referred to “the total destruction of the Judeo-Communist empire in Europe.… It is [in] the extension of the Final Solution beyond the shores of Europe… that Haj Amin al-Husseini came to play a prominent role.”
http://spectator.org/articles/64637/will-our-values-make-us-seek-peace-genocide
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