Posted on 10/01/2021 10:56:08 AM PDT by Conservat1
Berlin (JTA)—Official circles here are protesting against the use of the swastika, official Nazi emblem, printed on the wrappers of Palestine oranges intended for export to Germany...
Oranges marked "Saint Elijah, Jaffa," were wrapped in paper bearing a picture of the "prophet" surrounded by swastikas.
The wrappers were found to have been used by an Arab exporting firm.
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An Arab newspaper about "Hitler the Great Leader". "Adolf Hitler, the lost European man" - an article of this name with a picture on "the greatest [sic] leader who rose in Germany" was published in the latest issue of "alwahda" (الوحدة) the Arab weekly in Jerusalem.
In terms of the external form, the Arab movement approached the glistening world of Fascism...
In April 1934, the Husseinis' "Al Jamia Al Arabia" (on the occasion of the opening of the Bari broadcast) wrote that Italy was the only power that had only economic and cultural trends and sought to move closer to the East.
In the same newspaper (35.4.4) Shakib Arslan wrote that Mussolini is a huge personality. The leader of European policy and that the Arabs should not be moved by the Abyssinian government that persecutes Muslims. During the Abyssinian War, the Husseinist newspapers in Italy and the opposition newspapers supported the Abyssinians.
(In 1937, "Falastin" also became pro-Italian).
Along the Italian side, Nazi Germany also began to raise its profile among the Arabs and succeeded in doing so, especially during the days of the events.
May 22, 1937, a holiday. Large Nazi flags fluttered in Jaffa. The front of the workers' association's house was adorned with swastikas. In many houses swastikas and pictures of the Fuhrer, the Douce and the leaders of the revolt were seen. In 1938, one hundred Palestine Arabs visited the Nazi party conference in Nuremberg. Needless to say, how great was the effect of the German victories, in the first period of the war, on the Arabs of the country, and how difficult was then the impression of their defeat: an Egyptian, who visited the country in the days after the conquest of Berlin wrote: "The people cry in the morning and sob in the evening. And blow to their cheek between morning and evening."
The evaluation of Arab Nazism in the 1930s, with Hitler's rise to power, must be seen against this background of identity values.The common explanation as if there was a common interest of hostility to France and Britain, which united allies against a common enemy and allegedly pushed the Arabs into Hitler's arms is only a partial explanation, but as a basic claim it is tainted with excessive simplicity and historical distortion.
Admiration for Hitler and his party existed on the Arab street as early as the days of the Fuhrer's struggle in the 1920s, and it erupted with great enthusiasm immediately upon his rise to power in 1933. The first congratulatory telegrams he received the day after his appointment as chancellor came to him from Wolf, the German consul in Jerusalem, following which warm greetings flowed from other Arab countries.
Although the violation of the Versailles Agreements was a blatant defiance of France and Britain, it came only in 1936, with the violation of the ban on armaments of Germany, and in 1938 with the "Anschluss" - annexation of Austria.
In 1933, and in the period that lasted at least until the attack on Poland in September 1939, there was no reason to assume that Hitler, an "Anglophile" who based (in Mein Kampf) Germany's long-term strategy of cooperating with Great Britain as a principle of the new world order, as he envisioned it, would the one who would save the Arabs from English colonism. As soon as Hitler came to power, parties were formed in Arab countries that were imitations of National Socialism. Such as a social-nationalist party in Syria led by Anton Saada, which openly and enthusiastically copied the hallmarks of Nazism. Saada, who used to present himself as the "Fuhrer of the Syrian nation," stated in his party platform that "the Syrians are a 'superior race' by their very nature."
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