ABSTRACT
Palestinian Arab leaders lost little time in making known their positive assessment of events in Germany in 1933. Among German diplomats in the Middle East, there appears to have been a consensus that Arab enthusiasm for National Socialist Germany was devoid of any real understanding of the substance of National Socialism, the goals of the movement and the significance of Adolf Hitler. Wolff was instructed to discourage contact between pro-Nazi Arabs and the various Ortsgruppen of the National Socialist German Workers' party in Palestine, to which many Palastinadeutsche were beginning to flock. Britain and France made several attempts during the 1920s and 1930s to placate Arab nationalism and its frustrated goal of independence. The attempts of Arab leaders to secure German weapons for the Palestinian insurgents and Germany's refusal to grant such assistance, as well as the strict neutrality of the Palastinadeutsche in the conflict, indicate that Germany maintained a policy of noninvolvement in Palestinian affairs.
