The Mufti was similarly instrumental in the recruitment of the Azerbaijani battalion which proved their valor were included in German Storm Troops and decorated by the German Army according to a November 1943 broadcast by DNB the German News Agency. The Mufti’s representatives in Central Asia recruited some Muslim fighters for Nazi Germany there as well despite widespread sympathy among the majority of Central Asian Muslims for the plight of the Jews during the Holocaust.
The Mufti’s hatred of the West was matched only by his hatred of the Jews. It is not a coincidence that Germany suddenly abandoned the policy of expelling Jews and adopted far harsher methods a short time after the Mufti arrived in Germany. When Haj Amin came to Germany again the Nazis decided to execute the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.
The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry reported Eichmann’s deputy Dieter Wisliceny. [He had] played a role in the decision to exterminate the European Jews. The importance of this role must not be disregarded…. The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry.
We do not know if al-Husseini played a major role in shaping the Final Solution. There is however wrote Joseph Schechtman abundant first-hand evidence of the part the Mufti played in making foolproof the ban on emigration (of Jews out of Germany).
When the war ended al-Husseini returned to the Middle East as a hero. On October 1 1948 he was proclaimed the president of the government of All-Palestine. The government was fictional however because it did not control any land and was recognized by only a handful of Arab nations. In 1959 it was dispersed by its sponsor Egypt.
By that time however another member of the al-Husseini clan was planning terror. Around the same time that the All-Palestine government was disbanded a man by the name of Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ar-Rauf al-Qudwah al-Husaini – better known as Yasir Arafat – was busy organizing Fatah which would go on to become the main faction of the PLO.
