79 Years ago, July-1944, Palestine Mufti to attend Alfred Rosenberg's Nazi Congress in Krakow on the "Jewish question"

Book: "Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People" | 1999 | Weinreich, Max

[Freeleesy]

Weinreich, Max. Hitler's Professors: The Part of Scholarship in Germany's Crimes Against the Jewish People. United States: Yale University Press, 1999.

[Anti-Jewish Congress in 1944...] p. 231:

Egypt: Fakoussa, Hassan, journalist and anti­-Jewish writer.

p. 226:

When the date finally had been set for July 11­-15, 1944, and the preparations were in full swing, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann in the middle of June in the name of the Führer ordered, “on the basis of the military developments,” postponement of the congress until the beginning of September. Apparently, Hitler’s alter ego felt that by September the invasion armies would have been forced into the sea. Proceeding on that assumption, Rosenberg envisaged September 6 as the first day of the congress and the preparatory work went on. On June 28, the day the Allies entered Cherbourg, Rosenberg’s Office forwarded to the Propaganda Ministry a tentative list of persons to be invited. This “List of Participants Proposed for the anti­Jewish Congress in Cracow,” compiled by Rosenberg’s Office itself, the Foreign Ministry, and the Reich Main Security Office, consisted of two groups: A. German guests; B. Guests from abroad...

Iraq was to be represented by Gailani, "[exiled pro­-Hitler] Prime Minister", and Arabia, most fittingly, by Amin al­Husseini, "Great Mufti of Jerusalem."

(The two Arab leaders, after their escape to Germany, were eagerly wooed by the Nazis..)

In all, the Rosenberg Commissionership looked forward to 402 participants, of whom 189 were to be invited from abroad...

[Conservat1]

Thanks. BTW, Hassan Fakoussa who was to represent Egypt, continued to work with neo Nazis in the 1950s-1960s.

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By July 1944, just about anyone with a brain knew how the war in Europe was going to end.

[Freeleesy]

Right

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