ABSTRACT
The groundwork for the infiltration of Fascist ideas and pro-German sympathies was laid by some socio-political processes and the intellectual and ideological climate then prevalent in Arab countries. At the time of the Arab revolt in Palestine in 1936, Dr Fritz Grobba and his staff fully exploited the issue to create an anti-British mood. During 1938, German interest in the Arab world increased and, along with it, the exploitation of the Palestine question. By 1939, the Palestine question had become central to the anti-British propaganda disseminated by the German Legation and pro-German circles in Iraq. In the summer of that year, Germany began a series of broadcasts, targeted at Arab audiences, calling for an anti-British revolt in Iraq unless conditions in Palestine improved. Many of the Palestinians arriving at or around the same time as the Grand Mufti were educated men who found employment in Iraqi schools where pan-Arab nationalist trends had been prevalent for some time.
