History

Some Muslim leaders and units did collaborate with Nazi Germany. The record is real, narrow, and often misstated in both directions. It is not evidence that “Muslims” as a people aided Hitler, and it is not a myth invented later. The Mufti and Berlin The central figure is Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. He had led opposition to the British Mandate and to Jewish immigration in the 1920s and 1930s, including the 1936–39 Arab revolt. After the British suppressed