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GARY B KATZ's avatar

I watched the documentary "Nazi Jihad." It points out that today's jihadist terror cells are modeled after Nazi tactics from WWII. Nazis who escaped justice after the war taught such terror techniques to the Arab countries which took them in, and it spread from there.

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Dan's avatar

We monitors here in London have watched and verified the Re-formation of The Nazi Party in 2013 by Nazi Elements in MI6, with subsequent Alliance rekindled between these virulently Antisemitic Nazi supporters in MI6 and Hamas representatives, in 2014. You have our Reports.

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Bless America's avatar

This is blood curdling. I didn't know this. Why isn't it widely publicised? I can't tell how that may directly or indirectly hurt Jews and Israel, who surely must know about this from Mossad, and also wonder how it may affect the decisions of British governments. Where can I read about this?

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Dan's avatar
3hEdited

This information is circulating privately in the Intelligence Communities. The German Intelligence network has a long and ignoble relationship with The Nazis, and it is now widely known that there are active Nazis who never actually disbanded The NSDAW and assisted this underground organisation after the defeat of Hitler in 1945. They then infiltrated Elements of MI6 here in London virtually continuously from 1945.

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Bill Horne's avatar

Thanks for this. For those who want more detail, here's a link to Jeffrey Herf's important book that you referenced, “Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World” https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300155839/nazi-propaganda-for-the-arab-world/

and https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/nazi-propaganda-for-the-arab-world

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Susannah PK's avatar

thank you for writing this. i wish more people knew this history

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Noah Otte's avatar

I read this outstanding piece by Lucy thing morning! Such an unexpected treat to see it featured in Joshua Hoffman’s Future of Jewish! This essay contains history that every westerner needs to know! The Palestinian causes’ Nazi roots are undeniable. Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf was and is to this day, a best seller in the Arab world. When the Afrika Korp arrived in North Africa, the local Arabs gave them a heroes’ welcome and gladly collaborated with them and their Italian allies in rounding up North African Jews. The Grand Mutfi of Jerusalem and Adolf Hitler hit it off and became good friends and allies. They had a mutual goal of exterminating the Jews. Thousands of Arabs and black Africans joined the Wehrmacht’s Free Arabian Legion. The Nazis also financed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and they in turn modeled their political party after the Nazis. Many Arabs believed the Germans would liberate them from British and French colonialism and shared their antipathy toward the Jewish people and Zionism. Anwar Sadat by his own admission, was a spy for the Nazis during World War II.

Amin al-Husseini was considered an Aryan by the Nazis and was good friends with many high-ranking Nazis including Heinrich Himmler, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Adolf Eichmann. He recruited thousands of Arab Muslims and non-Arab Muslims to the Axis cause including three SS units of Bosnian Muslims. He helped plan wartime operations directed against Palestine and Iraq including parachuting in German and Arab agents to foment attacks against the Jews of the holy land. He also contributed to Axis propaganda services, assisted German entry into North Africa and his espionage network provided intelligence to the Germans including a forty-eight hour warning of an Allied invasion of North Africa, which the Wehrmacht foolishly ignored. It turned out to be 100% accurate.

In 1941, the Golden Square, a cabal of pro-fascist and pro-Nazi colonels in the Iraqi Army with the assistance of Nazi Germany, overthrew the government of the Crown Prince Abdullah and installed Rashid Ali Al-Gailani as dictator of the country. His time in power would be brief before the British and their allies toppled him and restored the pro-British government to power a few months later. Nonetheless, this is yet another example of the Nazi-Arab alliance at work. Sadly, in the power vacuum that resulted from Rashid Ali’s fall, rioting and looting started and a pogrom broke out against the Iraqi Jewish community known as the Farhud, in which 189 Jews were killed.

After the war, the Arab countries welcomed former Nazis with open arms and they assisted them in building up their armies to fight the newborn state of Israel. Many former Nazis served as volunteers in the Arab armies during the 1948 Israeli War of Independence. Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man war criminal Alois Brunner fled to first Egypt then Syria after the war where he was granted asylum and assisted Hafez al-Assad in organizing the Ba’athist Secret Police and trained them on Nazi torture practices. The Ba’athist Party in both Iraq and Syria took inspiration from the Nazis. Give the amazing History Channel documentary “Saddam and the Third Reich” a watch of you wish to learn more about this. Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis all take inspiration from the Nazis too and do the Nazi salute. When the IDF went into Gaza they found pictures of Adolf Hitler in civilian homes and copies of Mein Kampf.

So you see, Arab political parties religious or secular, showed an admiration and desire to emulate the Nazis. Pro-Palestinian agitators often do the zeig heil and carry around Nazi symbolism with them. The Soviets were actually the first to tie Nazism to Zionism. Pro-Palestinian protesters have no idea that when they compare Israel to Nazi Germany or the two ideologies to each other they are repeating propaganda cooked up in the Kremlin. There was widespread discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union. For example, my friend Liza Libes from here on Substack once shared that her grandmother had to get a gentile to vouch for her in order to be hired for a professorship at a Soviet university. Not to mention how Soviet Jewry was denied the right to emigrate to Israel for decades and the Soviets vilified Zionism as akin to racism and imperialism. Antisemitic imagery was also plastered all over the Soviet media.

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Jan Jackson's avatar

This is fascinating

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