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."