ABSTRACT
Throughout the 1930s, until his departure from Palestine in 1937, Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti, continued to incite violence against the Jews of Palestine. The mufti never attempted to disguise his Nazi beliefs or his wartime role as a mouthpiece for Adolf Hitler's genocide in the Arab world. By 1938, after British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's infamous capitulation to Hitler at Munich, al-Husseini's overtures to Germany were officially reciprocated and became the basis of a nascent Islamic-Nazi alliance. Leaving the Reich Chancellery, al-Husseini had been elated and inspired and had been convinced that his destiny was now assured. A partnership had been forged, which if successful would reshape the Middle East. All across the Middle East, during the 1930s, sympathy for Nazi ideas and support for Germany had been spreading. Berlin soon came to be home to the largest group of Arab leaders outside of the Middle East.
