Ties With The Axis Powers During World War II
The nature of al-Husseini's support for the Axis powers, and his alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy is hotly disputed. Some, like Renzo De Felice, deny that the relationship can be taken to reflect a putative affinity of Arab nationalism with Nazi/Fascist ideology, and that men like Husseini chose them as allies for purely strategic reasons. on the grounds that, as Husseini later wrote in his memoirs,'the enemy of your enemy is your friend', Others think that Husseini's motives were deeply inflected by antisemitism from the outstart. When Haj Amin met with Hitler and Ribbentrop in 1941, he assured Hitler that 'The Arabs were Germany's natural friends because they had the same enemies... namely the English, the Jews, and the Communists'.
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