Index

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Aaronson, Aaron, 54

Aaronson, Sarah, 55

Abbas, Mahmud, 243–44

Abd ad-Din, Sabri, 118

Abd al-Hai, Muhammad, 171

Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, Muhammad, 137

Abd al-Karim, Hafiz, 218, 220

Abdallah, King of Transjordan: and Arab revolt, 92, 99; assassination of, 204, 239, 310n50; and an-Nashashibi, 93; and Palestine question, 97–98, 200; on Palestinian Arabs, 193

Abdallah, Shaikh, 21

Abd al-Latif, Dhu al-Kuffar, 138, 153, 178

Abd al-Latif, Saad ad-Din, 228

Abd al-Qadir al-Husaini, 12–13, 199, 200, 201

Abd an-Nasir. See Nasir, Jamal Abd an- (Jamal Abd an-Nasir)

Abduh, Muhammad, 39

Abdülhamid II, 21

Abdülmecid II, 69

Abetz, Otto, 125

Abu al-Fadl, Mamun, 39

Abu al-Huda, Taufiq, 100

Abu as-Saud, 156

Abwehr, 97, 111, 117, 118, 133, 135, 141, 142, 150

Acheson, Dean, 198

Adenauer, Kurt, 210, 225, 230

Afghanistan: jihad strategy in, 51; -Turkey cooperation, 68; and Weimar Republic, 74

Aflaq, Michel, 245

Aga Khan, 170–71

Ahmadinejad, Mahmud, 92

Ahmadiyya mosque, Berlin, 83

Ahmad Khan, Sultan, 68

Aitelkhan, Juwad Rifat, 55

al-Alamain, Battle of, 142, 143

al-Alami, Musa, 94, 192, 193, 194

Algeria, independence war in, 220

Algerian Jews, 138–39

Ali, Muhammad, 79, 82

Ali, Shaukat, 79, 88

Ali Khan, Mirza, 205

Al-Islam newspaper, 81

Allenby, Edmund, 70

Alp, Munis Tekin (Marcel Cohen), 36–37

Aluba, Muhammad Ali, 205

Amanullah, King of Afghanistan, 51, 73, 168, 180

Amé, Cesare, 142

Andreas, Friedrich C., 114

Anticapitalist Views of Islam, The (Djozo), 156

Anti-Semitism: of ex-Nazis, 217, 219; of Hitler, 26, 30, 160; of al-Husaini, 30, 55, 94–95, 157–59, 251; Islamist, 158, 251–53; in Islamist-Nazi worldviews, 182–83; propaganda, 138, 140–41, 142, 143, 150

Arab Club of Damascus, 64–65, 110

Arab Club of Syria, 97

Arab Commercial Bank, Geneva, 227, 229–30

Arab Cooperation Committee, 123–24, 125, 127

Arab Freedom Corps, 139–40, 145–46, 149, 178

Arab League, 120, 194, 198, 206, 246

Arab Legion, 127, 129–30, 132

Arab Nation Party, 178

Arab-Nazi alliance. See Nazi-Arab alliance

Arab Peoples Bank, Algiers, 227

Arab revolt, against Ottomans, 63, 64

Arabs: Hitler’s view of, 26–27, 28–29, 77; Karl May’s portrayal of, 29. See also Palestinian Arabs

“Arab Spring” of 2011, 237, 250

Arab Summit of 1944 (Alexandria), 192–93

Arafat, Yasir, 92, 95, 108, 173; continuity of al-Husaini’s policy, 241–42; -al Husaini’s dispute with, 239–41; and Muslim Brotherhood, 201; and Soviet bloc, 239, 240, 243; successor to al-Husaini, 233, 237, 238; two-state strategy, 242

al-Arafati, Mahmud Ibn Salim, 84

Aras, Tevfik Rüstü, 158

al-Ard, Midhat, 210

Argentina, Nazi war criminals in, 209, 216–17

al-Arif, Arif, 64

Arikat, Rashid, 320n16 sic: (Araikat)

Armenian massacre, 25, 36, 44, 52–54, 58, 71

Arslan, Shakib, 39, 80–81, 84, 88, 124, 248–49

Ashmawi, Salih Mustafa, 169

Atatürk, Kemal (Mustafa Kemal), 50, 68, 69, 158, 159

At-Taqwa Bank, Lugano, 229

Auschwitz concentration camp, 164, 185, 189, 190, 223, 225

Auslands-Organization of Nazi Party NSDAP, 109

Austria-Hungary, in World War I, 32

Azadi ash-Sharq, 75

Azerbaijan independence movement, 226–27

Azerbaijan Legion, 149, 226

Azerbaijan National Committee, 226

Azma, Adil, 111

Azzam, Abd al-Wahhab, 159–60, 246

Azzam, Abd ar-Rahman, 100, 118, 140, 160, 197, 206, 246

al-Badih, Muhammad, 253

Bahri, Yunus, 178

Baku conference of 1920, 71–72, 72

Balfour, Arthur J., 55

Balfour Declaration, 55–56, 63, 64, 70, 153

Balkan Muslims, recruitment to Muslim force, 122, 145, 151, 151–152, 180

Bandung conference of 1955, 204–5, 217, 230

Banking system, Islamist, 229–30

Bank Misr, Cairo, 74

al-Banna, Hasan, 39, 81, 118, 199, 248, 250, 251

Barbie, Klaus, 229

Barzani, Mahmud, 148

Ba’th Party: formation of, 128–29; in Iraq, 128, 129, 245; Nazi collaboration with, 4; in Syria, 121, 234, 245

Battle of Hittin (1187), 20

Battle of Ras al-Ain (1948), 200

Baxter, C.W., 103–4

Bayar, Celal, 74

Beck, Sebastian, 114

Becker, Carl Heinrich, 18, 32–33, 34, 38, 41–42

Begin, Menachim, 225

Begova Mosque, Sarajevo, 152

Beisner, Wilhelm, 224

Bek, Kemal Dogan, 158

Bender, Bernard, 221

Ben Gurion, David, 94, 102

Ben Yusuf, Salah, 219–20

Berger, Gottlob, 152, 153, 155, 156, 190

Berlin to Baghdad railroad, 22, 23

Bernstorff, Johann-Heinrich Graf von, 56

Bernwald, Zvonimir, 181, 305n45

Beyli-Dudanginsky, Abd ar-Rahman Fatal, 226–27

Bigiyev, Musa Ali, 207

Bigiyev, Musa Jarullah, 207

Bineth, Max, 222

Bin Ladin, Usama, 19, 59, 69, 90, 92, 252

Bismarck, Otto von, 11–12, 75

Black Persian, The (May), 27

Black September terrorists, 243

Blomberg, Axel von, 131

Bohle, Wilhelm, 109

Bolshevik revolution, 37–38

Bormann, Martin, 191

Bose, Subhas Chandra, 169–70

Bosnian Muslims, recruitment to Muslim forces, 150, 151–52, 180

Bragon, Ilias, 81

Braun, Eva, 190, 191, 215

Bräutigam, Otto, 147, 149

Bridgeport Company, 49

Britain: Aga Khan’s reports to Hitler on, 171; Arab allies of, 48, 63; and German imperialism, response to, 13, 22, 24; German propaganda against, 45; on al-Husaini’s war crimes, 198; al-Husaini appointed grand mufti by, 67–68; al-Husaini as intelligence agent for, 63, 64, 67; and Indian jihad plan, response to, 169; Iran occupation of, 132, 136; -Iraq relations, 115; Islamist hatred of, 159–60, 180; jihad strategy against, 12, 13, 25, 30–31, 32, 36, 46, 124; mandates in Middle East, 62, 70, 99; military success in Middle East, 47, 56, 130–33; Muslims in forces of, 36; and Nazi-Arab alliance, response to, 119–21; outbreak of World War I, 32, 35. See also Palestine mandate, British

Brockelmann, Carl, 41

Brunner, Alois, 185, 224–26, 315n70

Buchan, John, 11, 38

Bukabuya, Rabah, 39

Bülow, Bernhard von, 22

Bureau for Revolutionizing Middle Eastern Lands, 35

Buruqaiba (Bourqiba), al-Habib, 137

Camp David summit, 242

Canaris, Wilhelm, 107, 150, 169, 195; al-Husaini’s cooperation with, 142; intelligence operation of, 111; Iraq visit of, 117; radical Arabs funded by, 97

Carlos the Jackal, 229

Castle Bellevue, Berlin, 5, 6

Castro, Fidel, 224

Caucasian Muslim Legion, 149

Cemal Pasha, 48, 54, 56

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 196, 203, 207, 210

Central Islamic Institute, 137, 179, 180

Chamberlain, Neville, 101

Chile, Nazi war criminals in, 224

Churchill, Winston S., 119, 132, 171

Ciano, Gian Galeazzo, 134, 162

Clapper, James, 250

Colombo conference of 1954, 204

Commando paratroopers, Arab, 153–55

Communism, and Islam, 183–84

Contemporary Islam, 83

Cotta Bey, Aziz, 74

Crane, Charles R., 64

Crescent, The, 79, 80

Crusades, 20, 42

Czechoslovakia, Hitler’s annexation of, 96–97, 101, 103

Danish, Husain, 84

Darlan, François, 127

Darwin, Charles, 26

Darwish, Muhammad Ishaq, 205

Daud, Mansur, 141

ad-Dawalibi, Maruf, 177, 245, 248, 250

Dayan, Moshe, 132

Dehlavi, Kifayatullah, 169

Deininger-Schaeffer, Friedrich, 155

Delmer, Sefton, 215

Dentz, Henri, 127–28, 132

Der Islam, 33

Desert Ride, A (May), 27

Deutsche Bank, 23

Diplomats, Nazi era, 230–31

Djozo, Husain Sulaiman, 156, 196–97

Doemling, Joachim, 221

East Germany, 211, 216, 226

East Turk Unit, 149

Echo de l’Orient, 75

Ecuador, Nazi war criminals in, 224

Eden, Anthony, 120, 133

Effendi, Musa Kazim, 71

Effendiev, Said, 39

Egypt: and Algerian war of independence, 220; in Gaza Strip, 202; German prisoners of war in, 221; German scientists in missile program of, 222–23; jihad strategy in, 36, 46, 47; Muslim Brotherhood in, 206, 234, 248; -Nazi Germany economic relations, 118; Nazi party branch in, 109; Nazi sympathizers in, 4, 140, 141–42; Nazi war criminals/officials in, 213, 213, 214, 217–22, 225, 244; Ottoman invasion of, 35; Soviet Muslims in, 227; Wafd Party, 140, 192; and White Paper, 106–7. See also Nasir, Jamal Abd an-

Eichmann, Adolf, 185, 207, 211; capture of, 220; documentary about, 308n12; escape of, 209; and al-Husaini, 8–9, 163, 167, 173–74, 195–96, 209; and Jewish genocide, 165, 190, 223, 224; Palestine visit of, 96; trial of, 194, 196, 220, 225, 227, 297n111, 298–99n132–133; at Wannsee Conference, 163, 164

Eichmann, Veronica, 207

Einstein, Albert, 27

Eisele, Hans, 218

Enver Pasha, Ismail: and Armenian massacre, 52, 53, 71; death of, 73; and German-Ottoman alliance, 48, 48; and German-Ottoman jihad strategy, 35, 40, 43, 45; in Soviet Union, 71, 72–73; as Young Turk, 25

Eppler, John W., (Husain Jaffar), 141, 220

Erden, Ali Fuat, 148

Erkilet, Hüsnü, 148

Ettel, Erwin, 135, 141, 169, 179

Extermination camps, Arab tour of, 1, 2–3, 9–10, 164

Fahmi, Abd al-Azim Ibrahim, 218

Fahrmbacher, Wilhelm, 221

Faisal, King of Iraq, 64, 65, 91, 112

Faisal, King of Saudi Arabia, 100

Fakhusa, Hasan, 218

Falkenhayn, Erich von, 50, 132

Faqir of Ibi, 170

Farid, Muhammad, 39

Farid, Mustafa, 39

Farisi, Muhammad, 42

Faruq, King of Egypt, 140, 141, 142, 171, 178, 234

Fatah, 241, 243, 244, 320n16

Fegelein, Hermann, 190, 215

Felmy, Hellmuth, 130, 145, 150

Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Tsar, 41

Fidaiyyun al-Islam, 205

al-Fiqar, Husain Dhu, 141

Fischer, Oskar, 226

France: capture and release of al-Husaini, 96, 173–74, 196, 197–98; and German imperialism, response to, 13, 22, 24; German jihad strategy against, 25, 30–31, 36; mandates in Lebanon and Syria, 65, 70, 96, 99, 115, 196; Muslim soldiers of, 36; outbreak of World War I, 32, 35. See also Vichy France

Franco, Francisco, 111

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 32

Franz Joseph, Kaiser of Austria-Hungary, 41

Free Officers, 201, 244

Frobenius, Leo V., 48

From Baghdad to Istanbul (May), 27

Funk, Walter, 228

al-Futuwa youth movement, 116

Garaudy, Roger, 229

Gaza Strip, 202, 242, 244

Gehlen, Reinhard, 210, 211, 225

Gelfhand, Israel Lazarevich (Alexander Parvus), 37

General Islamic Congress, 84, 88

Genoud, François, 211, 227, 228, 229–30, 250

German Middle Eastern Formation, 150

German Muslim League, 207

German Orient Bank, 23, 61, 74

German Orient Institute, 79

German scientists, in Egyptian missile program, 222–23

German Village, The (Sansal), 220

Germany. See East Germany; Germany-Middle East policy; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic; West Germany

Germany-Middle East policy, under Kaiser: von Bismarck’s view of, 11–12; economic, 22–24; expansionist, 11–12, 13–14; jihad strategy in (See Jihad strategy, German-Ottoman); in Morocco, 24; parallels with Hitler’s policy, 57–59; railroad building, 22, 23

Germany-Middle East policy, Nazi. See Nazi-Arab alliance; Nazi Germany-Middle East policy

Germany-Middle East policy, Weimar, 74–75

Ghazi, King of Iraq, 116

al-Ghuri, Emil, 205

Gielhammer, Lutz, 115

Gladstone, William Ewart, 42, 159

Gleim (SS commander), 221

Globke, Hans, 210

Goebbels, Joseph, 152, 173, 178, 179–80, 191

Goerke, Heidi, 223

Goerke, Paul, 223

Golden Square faction, 115, 130

Goldmann, Nahum, 225

Goltz, Colmar von der, 24

Gondos, Georg, 47

Göring, Emma, 228

Göring, Hermann, 5, 131, 228, 285n67, 296n96

Greenmantle (Buchan), 11, 38

Grobba, Fritz, 5, 9, 70, 115, 118, 158, 161, 164; Afghan mission of, 74; at Arab concentration camp tour, 1, 2; Arab Legion under, 127, 216; on Blomberg plane incident, 131; fired by Hitler, 176; as Iraq envoy, 6, 97, 98, 112, 116, 117, 118; and Iraqi revolt, 130, 131; on Jewish immigration, 137; and jihad strategy, 112; and Nazi-Arab alliance, 125–26; Saudi employment of, 210–11; as Saudi envoy, 112, 117; West German employment of, 210

Grothe, Hugo, 32–33, 34

Grothmann, Werner, 190

Gutmann, Eugen and Herbert M., 23

Gutmann family, 26

Gwinner, Arthur von, 74

Habash, George, 227, 229

Habbaniyya siege, 130, 131

Habib Allah, Amir, 51

Habicht, Theo, 124, 169

Haddad, Gabriel, 64, 127, 130

Haddad, Kamal Uthman, 124

al-Hadi, Auni Abd, 97, 107, 118

Hagemeyer, Hans, 181

Haidar, Rustum, 106

Halder, Franz, 129

Halifax, Lord, 100, 101

Hamas, 42, 195, 229, 244, 251–52

Hamza, Fuad, 97, 100

Hanzar (Khanjar) Division, 190

Harb, Salih, 140

Hartmann, Richard, 155

Harun ar-Rashid, Caliph, 71

Hasan, Habib, 202

Hasan, Shaikh, 156

al-Hashimi, Taha, 100, 107, 120

Hasuna, Khaliq, 218

Haurani, Husain, 207

al-Hayat newspaper, 247

Heiden, Ludwig (alias al-Hajj, Luis), 220

Heim, Aribert F., 315n70

Heim, Ferdinand, 220

Heins, Rolf, 116

Hentig, Werner Otto von, 50, 70, 74, 98, 125, 230

Herzfeld, Ernst, 114

Herzl, Theodor, 20

Hess, Alfred, 109

Hess, Rudolf, 109

Hesse, Hermann, 27

Heydrich, Reinhard, 8, 9, 111, 161, 162, 164, 296n96

al-Hilali, Taqi ad-Din, 137

Hilmi, Abbas, 47, 81, 84, 88, 171

Himmat, Ali Ghalib, 230, 249

Himmat, Hani, 249

Himmler, Heinrich, 152, 153, 156, 231; at Arab concentration camp tour, 1, 2; and al-Husaini, 157, 164, 173, 184, 184–85, 186–88, 189–90; and Jewish genocide, 165, 166, 189, 296n97

Hindenburg, Paul von, 112

Hintersatz, Wilhelm (since 1919 Harun ar-Rashid Bey), 70–71, 73

Hinz, Walther, 114

Hippel, Theodor von, 130

Hisham ad-Din Jar Allah, 202

Hitler, Adolf: Aga Khan’s meeting with, 170–71; anti-Semitism of, 26, 30, 160; on Armenian massacre, 53–54; assassination attempt on, 221; death in Berlin Bunker, 191; early life in Vienna, 25–26; al-Husaini correspondence, 2, 124–25, 127; al-Husaini’s leadership supported by, 6, 7, 127, 136, 173, 176, 177; al-Husaini’s meetings with, 3, 6, 131, 161–62, 195; on Islam religion, 75, 170–71; and Jewish expulsion vs extermination, 8, 93–94; Jewish genocide ideology of, 4; al-Kailani’s meeting with, 3, 178–79; Karl May’s influence on, 26–29; Mein Kampf, 4, 77, 93, 123, 220, 247; Munich coup attempt of, 50, 76, 78; Nazi-Arab alliance supported by, 5, 127; pan-Germanism of, 26; and von Papen, 113; racist attitude toward Arabs, 75, 77–78; in recruitment propaganda, 156; revenge motivation of, 61; rise to power, 78, 112–13; romantic view of Arabs/Middle East, 26–27, 28–29, 77; and Soviet invasion, 144, 150; on Soviet Muslims, 148–49; in World War I, 54, 61; on Zionism, 78

Hitler Youth, 116

Hohenloe, Prince Max, 171

Holocaust. See Jewish genocide

Honecker, Erich, 226

Huber, Ahmad, 219, 227

al-Hudaibi, Hasan, 204

Humann, Carl Wilhelm, 35

Humann, Hans, 35

Hurgronje, C. Snouck, 38, 253

Husain, Ahmad, 230

Husain Bin Ali, 70

Husain, King of Jordan, 240–41

Husain, Saddam, 18, 59, 86, 90, 92, 129, 245

al-Husain, Saif al-Islam, 100

Husain, Sharif, 40, 47, 48

al-Husaini, Amin: anti-Semitic propaganda of, 138, 140–41, 142, 143, 150, 231, 251; anti-Semitism of, 30, 55, 94–95, 157–59, 251; as Arab leader, 5, 6, 7, 66–67, 84, 85, 87–88, 89, 105, 119, 127, 136, 176, 177, 178, 179; -Arafat dispute, 239–41; Arafat as successor to, 233, 237, 238; Aryan status granted to, 7, 8; Berlin visit of, 5–7, 107; as British intelligence agent, 63, 64, 67; captured and released by France, 173–74, 196–98; and concentration camp visits, 164, 185, 189, 223, 225; credentials for leadership, 89, 176; death of, 208; education of, 29–30; and Eichmann, 163, 167, 195–96, 209; entourage of, 177–78; escape from Iran and Turkey, 133, 179; espionage activities of, 176; family background of, 29, 67, 89; financing of, 227–30, 250; goals for Nazi-Arab alliance, 4, 122–23, 124–25; and Goebbels, 172, 179–80; as grand mufti, 67, 89; and Himmler, 157, 164, 173, 184, 184–85, 186–88, 189–90; historical role of, 87–88; Hitler’s correspondence with, 2, 124–25, 127; Hitler’s meetings with, 3, 6, 7, 131, 161–62; Hitler’s support for, 6, 7, 127, 136, 173, 176, 177; institutional bases in Berlin, 179–81; and Iraqi revolt, 130, 131, 132, 177; Iraqi support for, 100, 107, 123; as Islamist hero, 198–99; Japan initiatives of, 171–72; in Jewish genocide briefings, 8–9, 157, 163, 164, 189, 195; Jewish genocide involvement of, 160, 163–64, 165–67, 299n134, 319n9; and Jewish genocide plan for Middle East, 2, 4, 7, 94, 125, 138, 140, 157, 160, 164–65; Jewish immigration opposed by, 94, 95, 160–61, 165–66; jihad strategy in India, 168–169; in Lebanon, 96; and von Leers, 217, 218; in London Conference talks, 101; loyalty to Nazi Germany, 172; militancy of, 78, 89; and an-Nasir, 205, 239–40, 240; as Nazi-Arab alliance leader, 6, 7–8, 10, 78, 122, 134, 177; as Nazi intelligence agent, 110–11, 136, 143, 176; Nazi supporters of, 152–53, 173; in 1947–48 Palestine war, 199, 200, 201–2; in North African campaign, 137–38, 139, 140, 165, 177; overtures to Nazis, 93, 96–97; and Palestinian Arab revolt of 1936–39, 4, 95–99, 117, 242; Palestinian loyalty to, 237; as Pan-Arab nationalist, 65; political identity of, 65–66, 88–89, 91–92; and postwar Islamist movement, 202–7, 217, 241, 242, 249; radical nationalist/Islamist strategy of, 89–93, 103, 106; recruitment of Arab forces, 122, 137, 139–40, 150, 179; recruitment of Arab forces, for commando operations, 153–55; recruitment of Balkan/Soviet Muslim forces, 122, 151, 151–52, 155, 180, 211; recruitment and training tasks of, 136, 149; Saudi support for, 239, 246; stump speech of, 181, 305n44; violence against opponents, 93, 237, 239, 319n9; as war criminal, 194–95, 198, 237, 239, 319n9

al-Husaini, Jamal, 94, 97, 193–94

al-Husaini, Munif, 228

al-Husaini, Musa Abdulla, 2, 145, 177, 204

al-Husaini, Musa Kazim, 83

al-Husaini, Safwat, 2, 164, 177

al-Husaini, Salim, 138, 177

al-Husri, Sati, 115, 246

Ibada, Yusuf Mustafa Nada, 249

Ibrahim, Hasan al-Fuad, 55

Ibrahim, Qadi, 146

Ibrahim, Salih, 140

Idris, Alim, 147, 149

Imperial Traitors (von Leers), 216

In the Desert (May), 27

India: jihad strategy in, 49–50, 167–70, 293n35; nationalist base in Kabul, 51

Indonesia, 171, 172

In the Land of the Mahdi (May), 27

İnönü, Ismet, 112

Institute for Research into the Jewish Question, 180–81

International Organization of Friends of the Arab World, 227

International Red Cross, 212

Iqbal, Muhammad, 79

Iran: Allied occupation of, 132, 133, 136; -Britain relations, 115; German underground in, 135–36; Islamist regime in, 244–45; -Nazi Germany economic relations, 113–15; Nazi party branch in, 109–10

Iranian-German Trade Association, 114

Iraq: Arab commando unit in, 155; Ba’th Party in, 128, 129, 245; and Blomberg plane incident, 131; British mandate in, 70, 99; covert operations in, 148; ex-Axis collaborators in, 245; German ties to, 98, 125; jihad strategy in, 47; -Nazi Germany economic relations, 115–16; Nazi sympathizers in, 4; pro-German coup of 1941, 13; radical Arab support in, 100, 107, 123, 126; radical coup of 1938, 100; radical coup of 1958, 120; revolt of 1941, 130–32, 177, 231; and White Paper, 107

Isenburg, Helene Elizabeth von, 211

Islamic Centers, in Europe, 249

Islamic Confederation, 68

Islamic Conquest, 241, 320n16

Islamic Division, 149

Islamic Echo, 83

Islamic Guidance Association, 116

Islamic Socialist Front, 245

Islamic Student, The, 83

Islamic World Congress, 84, 88, 93, 177, 203, 205, 206

Islam Institute, Berlin, 81–82, 84

Islamism: and anti-Semitism, 158, 182–83, 251–53; vs Arab nationalism, 62, 63, 65, 66; in Europe, 80–86, 248–50; of al-Husaini, 88–89; -Nationalist partnership, 89–91; in Ottoman Empire, 15–16, 18, 24–25; Pan-Islamism, 15–16, 36–37, 68–69; revival of, 233, 235–37; in Soviet Union, 69, 71–72; in Turkey, 68–69; worldview of, 181–83. See also Jihad strategy, German-Ottoman; Muslims; Nazi-Arab alliance

Ismail, Hasan Fahmi, 217

Israel: campaign against German scientists in Egyptian missile program, 222–23; campaign against Nazi war criminals, 225, 226; and Eichmann’s capture, 220; Eichmann trial in, 194, 196, 220, 225, 227, 297n111, 298–99n132; independence of, 201, 202; 1947–48 war, 199–200, 201–2; terrorist attacks on, 241–42, 243; West German compensation to, 205–6, 211, 228. See also Palestine mandate, British; Zionism

Italy: aid to al-Husaini, 96; Arab independence support of, 124; in Ethiopia, 76; Islamic Institute of, 180; and Islamists, 84; North African offensive, 131; persecution of Italian Jews, 165; persecution of Libyan Jews, 138

al-Jabiri, Ihsan, 94

Jäckh, Ernst, 16, 30, 74

Jackson, Robert H., 198

Jalal, Kamal ad-Din, 180, 305n44

Jamiyyat Fidaiyyun al-Filastin, 205

Jandali, Firhan, 145

Japan, 162, 171–72

Jarbu, Abdallah, 252

Jawdat, Ali, 107

Jawish, Abd al-Aziz, 39, 69, 81, 88

Jemiet ul-Islam association, 68

Jewish genocide: Arab view of, 236, 244, 247, 248, 252–53; Armenian massacre as model for, 58; concentration camp visits of Arab allies, 1, 2–3, 9–10, 164, 185, 189; expulsion vs extermination, 5, 8, 93–94, 161; extermination methods, 2; al-Husaini briefed on, 8–9, 157, 163, 164, 189, 195; al-Husaini’s involvement in, 160, 163–64, 165–67, 219n9; Islamist ideology of, 183–84; Islamist plan for Middle East, 2, 4, 7, 94, 123, 125, 134, 138, 140, 157, 160, 164–65, 246; in North Africa, 139; Schirach’s role in, 152; Station Z, 1–2; Wannsee Conference, 8–9, 147, 162, 163, 223, 296n96

Jews: blamed for German defeat, 61; immigration blocked by al-Husaini, 94, 160, 165, 166, 195; immigration to Palestine, 5, 8, 20, 56–57, 93–94, 160–61, 193; Iraqi pogrom against, 132; at London Conference, 101, 102; in North Africa persecution, 138–39, 140, 142; Ottoman deportation of, 54–55. See also Anti-Semitism; Jewish genocide; Palestine mandate, British; Zionism

Jihad, 182

al-Jihad newspaper, 40, 147, 219

Jihad strategy, German-Ottoman: in Afghanistan, 51; in Arabia, 47–49; and Armenian massacre, 52–54; and Bolshevik revolution funding, 37–38; covert operations plan, 36; covert operations team, 32–33, 38–39; declaration of jihad, 40–41; in Egypt, 46, 47; expert opinion on, 17, 19; failure of, 52, 59, 77–78; fatwas, 41–44; in India, 49–50; intelligence of, 38; in Iraq, 47; of Jäckh, 30–31; and Kaiser Wilhelm II, 16–17, 19, 32; in Libya, 47; Muslim response to fatwas, 43–44; and Muslim solidarity, 18–19; in North Africa, 47; of Oppenheim, 13–14, 16–19, 17, 22, 32; Ottoman-German cooperation, 35; propaganda operation, 36–37, 39–40, 44–45, 45

Jihad strategy, Nazi-Arab: al-Husaini’s appeals, 172; and German Arab policy, 126; and German Middle East experts, 111–12; in India, 167–70; “Union Jack” plan, 17, 124

Jinnah, Muhammad Ali, 169

John, Otto, 215

Johnson, Ian, 215–16

Johst, Hanns, 190

Jordan: and Arab revolt, 99; assassination of Abdallah, 204, 239, 310n50; British mandate in, 70, 99; and Iraqi revolt, 131–32; and Palestine, 97–98, 240–41; West Bank/East Jerusalem annexation, 202

Junck, Werner, 131

al-Jundi, Sami, 129

al-Kailani, Kamil, 164

al-Kailani, Rashid Ali, 13, 107, 120, 134, 175, 176, 180; in Arab Cooperation Committee, 123, 124; competition for leadership with al-Husaini, 178–79; in concentration camp tour, 2–3; death of, 245; escape from Turkey, 135; and Iraqi revolt, 130, 131, 132; meeting with Hitler, 3, 178–79; military pact with Germany, 127; in North African front, 140

al-Kailani, Saadi (Faqir of Ibi), 170

al-Kailani, Sayyid, 12–13

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 156, 157, 211

Kamal ad-Din Jalal, 83, 180

Kamil, Husain, 47

Kampffmeyer, Georg, 82

Kanitz, Georg Graf von, 114

al-Kashani, Abd al-Qasim, 203, 205, 206, 244

Kashmir Liberation Front, 205

Kastner, Rudolf, 164, 167

Kazakov, Muhammad, 39

Keppler, Wilhelm, 169, 293n35

Khalid, King of Saudi Arabia, 210

Khan, Inamullah, 247–48

al-Khatib, Zaki, 123

Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 18, 92, 197, 206, 245

Kiesinger, Kurt Georg, 113, 231

Killigil, Nuri, 148

King, Henry C., 64

Kiram, Zaki, 84

Kirkut, Hasan, 218

Kissinger, Henry, 229

Klein, Fritz, 50

Kleinwächter, Hans, 223

Knatchbull-Hugessen, Hughe, 113

Koch, Paula, 110

Kohn, George, 82

Köstring, Ernst, 146

Kressenstein, Kreß Friedrich Freiherr von, 55

Kristensen, Vagner, 219

Krug, Heinz, 222–23

Krumey, Hermann, 166

La Jeune Asie magazine, 84

Lampson, Miles, 103

La Nation Arabe newspaper, 81

Lawrence, T.E. (Lawrence of Arabia), 14, 15, 20, 63

League of Jihad Call, 204

League of Nations, 5, 62, 65, 70

Lebanon: Ba’ath party, 234; British victory in, 132; French manadate in, 70, 96, 115; Vichy French government, 126

Leers, Johann von, 204, 246; in Egypt, 212, 213, 217, 219, 220, 225; in South America, 216–17

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 37, 71

Leverkuehn, Paul, 50–51, 111, 211

Libya, jihad strategy in, 47

Libyan Jews, 139

Lichtheim, Richard, 54

Liman von Sanders, Otto, 25

Lindemann, Hans, 85, 86

Linsser, Hans-Ferdinand, 228–29

Literary Club, Damascus, 65

Liwa al-Islam newspaper, 75, 81

London Conference (1939), 100–103, 108

Loritz, Hans, 9

Ludendorff, Erich, 83

Ludendorff’s Volkswarte, 83

Lufthansa, 114

Luther, Martin, 2–3, 9–10, 163, 223

Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem, 14, 19

Lyncker, Moriz von, 33–34, 53

MacDonald, Malcolm, 100, 101–2

Mahdi (messiah), 18

Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah), 16

Mahir, Ali, 100, 104, 105, 120, 140

Mahmud, Muhammad, 100, 104, 105

Majdanek concentration camp, 164, 185, 189

Malz, Heinrich, 212

al-Mamalik, Mustosi, 51

Mannesmann, Otto, 47

Mansfeld, Erich, 191

al-Mashriqi, Inayatullah Khan, 170

Maski, Adil, 181

May, Karl, 17, 26–28

Mehmed V, Sultan-Caliph, 40, 41

Meichanitz, Arthur, 225

Mein Kampf (Hitler), 4, 77, 93, 123, 220, 247

Melchers, Wilhelm, 131, 167, 230

Mende, Gerhard von, 146–47

Merrill, Selah, 19

Mertens, Gerhard, 221

Messerschmitt, Willy, 222

Middle Eastern novels, of Karl May, 26–28

Middle East experts, 32–33, 38–39, 58, 79, 82, 109

Middle East policy. See Germany-Middle East policy; Nazi Germany-Middle East policy

Middle East studies, in Germany, 22

al-Midfai, Jamil, 116, 117

Mikveh Israel agricultural school, 20

al-Misri, Aziz Ali, 118, 120, 130, 140

Mittwoch, Eugen, 32–33, 34, 79

Molotov, Vyacheslav, 168

Moltke, Helmuth von, 34–35

Morgen Journal, 198

Morgenthau, Henry I., 38, 43, 45, 46, 47, 54

Moroccan Jews, 139

Morocco, Wilhelm II’s visit to, 24

Mosque in Munich, A (Johnson), 215–16

Muftic, Salim, 84

Muhammad V, Sultan of Morocco, 143

Müller, Boris, 150

Müller, Gottfried, 148

Müller, Heinrich, 164

Müller, Herbert, 79

Munich Olympic Games, 243

Munir, Ahmad, 55

al-Munsif, Bey, 143

Munzel, Kurt, 113

Muruwwa, Kamil, 247

Musil, Alois, 48

Muslim Brotherhood, 18, 42, 85; anti-Semitic rhetoric of, 251–53; banking system of, 230, 249; in Egypt, 206, 234, 248; European mosques and institutes of, 249, 250; founding of, 39, 70, 88; and al-Husaini, 199, 204, 206; Nazi collaboration with, 4, 92, 118, 234, 250; and Palestinian movement, 201, 244; Western perceptions of, 250

Muslim forces, German: Arab, 122, 127, 129–30, 136, 137, 143; Arab, in commando operations, 153–59; Arab, in North Africa, 139–40, 145–46; Balkan Muslims, 122, 145, 151, 151–52, 156, 180, 221; covert operations, 147–48; Eastern Legions, 149, 154; from French colonies, 137, 179; Hitler’s view of, 148–49; from prisoner of war camps, 149, 150; recruitment propaganda, 156–57; Soviet Muslims, 122, 145, 146, 147–48, 155–57, 211, 226–27; SS units, 155–57, 181, 199

Muslim League, 169, 170

al-Muslimin magazine, 248

Muslims: in Allied armies (World War I), 36; and Communism, 183–84; divisions among, 18–19; in East Asia, 171–72; in Germany, 81–86; Hitler’s romantic view of, 26–27, 28–29, 77; in India, 168–69; and mobilization theme, 59; and modernization, 30; prisoners of war, in Germany, 40; Shia, 43, 50, 170; Sunni, 43. See also Islamism; Jihad strategy

Mussolini, Benito, 33, 84, 96, 124, 133, 162, 165

Muthanna Club, in Iraq, 116

Nada, Yusuf, 230

Nadolny, Rudolf, 38–39, 70, 114

Nahum, Haim, 159

Najjar, Abd al-Halim, 180

Namanjani, Nur ad-Din, 215, 249, 250

an-Nashashibi, Rajib, 93, 97, 98, 237

Nasir, Jamal Abd an-, 18, 92, 205; and ex-Nazis in Egypt, 217–18, 219, 220, 221; and al-Husaini, 205, 239–40, 240; missile program of, 222; as Nazi sympathizer, 86, 140; and Palestine resistance, 201, 202, 239; repression of Muslim Brotherhood, 206, 248

Nation, The, 198

Nazi-Arab alliance: Arab agenda in, 90–91, 92, 95, 124–25; Arab independence guarantees in, 6, 124, 127, 177; Arab overtures for, 93, 96–97, 123–24; British policy response to, 119–21; and concentration camp visits, 1, 2–3, 9–10, 164, 165, 185, 223; failure of, 128–33, 175, 235; German debate over, 125–26; German exhibition about (2009), 235; German overtures for, 124; German principles in, 126; German underground in Iran, 135–36; Hitler’s support for, 5, 127; al-Husaini-Himmler Zhitomir/Oybin meetings, 164, 184, 184–85, 186–88, 189–90; al-Husaini’s goals for, 4, 122–23, 124–25; al-Husaini’s leadership role in, 5, 6, 7–8, 10, 78, 122, 125, 176, 178–79; and Iraqi revolt, 130–32; and Jewish genocide plan for Middle East, 3, 4–5, 123, 164–65; and Jewish immigration issue, 8, 137, 160–161, 165–66; links to present-day Middle East, 244–54; Middle East experts’ role in, 79, 82; military defeat of, 130–33; military/financial aid to Arabs, 4, 97, 124, 127; military pact, 127–28, 303–4n18; moderate Arab leaders’ opposition to, 236; North African front, 136–43; Vichy government in, 126, 127–28; world view and racialist ideology paralleled in, 181–83, 190, 235, 253. See also Jihad strategy, Nazi-Arab; Muslim forces, German

Nazi Germany: Czech annexation, 96–97, 101, 103; Eastern Front, 129; European victories of, 119; rise to power, 78, 112–13; -Soviet alliance, 118–19, 167–68; Soviet invasion, 129, 144, 150; surrender of, 174. See also Hitler, Adolf; Nazi-Arab alliance; Nazi Germany-Middle East policy

Nazi Germany-Middle East policy: economic relations, 113–18; intelligence gathering, 110–11; Middle East experts in, 113; Nazi party branches, 109–10; Oppenheim’s legacy in, 79; parallels with Kaiser’s policy, 57–59; and pro-German forces in region, 128. See also Nazi-Arab alliance; Muslim forces, German

Nazi war criminals/officials: academics, 231–32; diplomats, 230–31; escape of, 211–12, 213, 214, 214, 216, 220, 224; funding for, 227; in Middle East, 209, 212, 213, 217–27; pardon of, 216; scientists, in Egyptian missile program, 222–23; in South America, 209–10, 216–17, 224; Western intelligence agencies employment of, 214–16; West Germany’s employment of, 210–11, 215, 216, 224, 230–31, 232

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 205

Neuhäuser, Johannes, 211

New Delhi conference of 1949, 204

Newspaper of the Orient, 81

New York Post, 198

New York Times, 234, 250

Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, 12

Niedermayer, Oskar von, 61, 76

Nili spy ring, 54, 55

North African campaign, in World War II, 136–43, 177

Nuremberg war crimes trials, 196, 198

Oberländer, Theodor, 211

ODESSA (Organization of Former Members of the SS), 211–12, 214, 216, 217, 227

Oebsger-Roeder, Rudolf, 224

Oil Development Company, 115

Oil Prince, The (May), 27

Operation Damocles, 222–23

Operation Zeppelin, 147–48

Oppenheim, Max von, 17, 253; anti-Semitism of, 124; on Arab Legion, 127; on Armenian massacre, 52, 53, 58; background of, 14, 124; covert operations plan of, 36; covert operations team of, 32–33, 38–39; Egypt jihad strategy of, 46; German-Ottoman jihad strategy of, 13–14, 16–19, 22, 32; influence on Wilhelm II, 12–13, 17; and al-Kailani, 12–13; and Karl May, 28; Nazi-Arab jihad strategy of, 111–12, 124; on Pan-Islamist movement, 15–17; propaganda operation of, 36–37, 39–40, 44–45, 45, 80–81; retirement of, 30; in Syria, 44; travels in Middle East, 14–15

Orient Club, Berlin, 81

Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 26

Oshima, Hiroshi, 162, 171

Oslo Accords of 1993, 242

Ottoman dynasty, end of, 69

Ottoman Empire: Arab revolt against, 63, 64; Armenian massacre, 25, 36, 44, 52–54; commercial ties with Germany, 22–23; deportation of Jews, 54–55; discontent in, 18, 19; entry into World War I, 35; German aid to, 16–17; -German alliance, 33, 48; and German expansionism, 12, 13–14; German influence on, 24; and jihad strategy (See Jihad strategy, German-Ottoman); Pan-Islamist movement in, 15–16, 36–37; partition of, 62, 68; railroad building, 22, 23; surrender to Allies, 57; Wilhelm II’s visit to, 12, 14, 19–22; Young Turks, 24, 25, 30, 37, 159; Zionist policy of, 56–57

Oybin meeting, al-Husaini-Himmler, 189–90

Pakistan, creation of, 170

Palestine Arab Party, 194

Palestine Defense Committee, 116

Palestine Germans, 130, 145

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 100, 153, 195, 240, 241–42, 244. See also Arafat, Yasir

Palestine mandate, British, 66, 70, 99; Arab revolt, 4, 95–99, 104, 117; Balfour Declaration, 55–56, 63, 70; Cairo talks, 103–4; concessions to Arabs, 97, 100–103, 119, 120; and Jewish immigration, 5, 6, 8, 20, 94, 100–101, 160–61; London Conference, 100–103; and partition, 93, 94, 201, 237, 242; two-state solution plan, 98; White Paper, 105–8, 192

Palestinian Arabs: in German commando operations, 153–55; al-Husiaini’s leadership of, 66–67, 87, 92, 200–201; at London Conference, 101, 102–3; moderate leaders/parties, 192–93, 236–37; moderate vs radical camps, 91–92, 93; nationalist/Islamist partnership, 89–91; nationalist/Islamist post-1948 leadership of, 193–94, 196, 200–201, 235–36; 1947–48 war, 199–200; policy choices in 1930s, 93; revolt of 1936–39, 4, 92, 95–99, 104, 117, 242

Palestinian Authority, 243–44

Palestinian movement: Abbas’ leadership of, 243–44; Arafat as successor to al-Husaini, 233, 237, 238; continuity in al-Husaini and Arafat policies, 241–42; al-Husaini-Arafat dispute, 239–41; legacy of radical Islamist faction, 200–201; Soviet bloc support for, 239, 240, 243

Pan-Arab nationalism, 65

Pan-Islamism, 15–16, 36–37, 68–69

Panther (gunboat), 24

Papen, Franz von, 144; Arab overtures to, 124; arms business of, 49; as chancellor, 112; and Islam Institute, 82; and Nazi rise to power, 113; and Soviet Muslim recruitment, 147–48; as Turkish envoy, 113; and Turkish-German cooperation, 148; in World War I, 49–50, 61, 112

Parvus, Alexander (Israel Lazarevich Gelfhand), 37, 76

Pavelic, Ante, 151

Pawelke, Günther, 111, 231

Pearl Harbor attack, 162, 246

Peel Commission, 98

Pergamon, 35

Perón, Juan, 209, 219

Persia. See Iran

Peshawari, Abd ar-Rahman, 68

Picot, François, 62

Piening, Günter, 235

Pilz, Wolfgang, 222, 223

Pomiankowski, Joseph, 47

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 227

Pratap, Kumar. Mahendra, 50, 51, 79

Priester, Karl-Heinz, 218

Pröbster, Edgar, 47

Professors, Nazi era, 231–32

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 78, 159, 181, 217, 218, 251

Prüfer, Curt M., 176–77

Punch, 22

al-Qaddafi, Muammar, 18–19, 92

al-Qaida, 42, 229, 246, 252

al-Qaradawi, Yusuf, 252

al-Qarqani, Khalid Al Hud, 5, 239

Qasim, Abd al-Karim, 245

al-Qawuqji, Fauzi ad-Din, 96, 127, 132, 199, 204

al-Qutb, Fauzi, 178

Qutb, Sayyid, 206, 251

al-Quwatli, Shukri, 123

Racism, in kaiser’s and Hitler’s policies, 57–58

Radek, Karl, 72, 72, 76, 77

Rademacher, Franz, 163, 223

Radio Berlin, 138, 141, 142, 179, 194

Radwan, Muhammad, 141–42

Raeder, Erich, 145

Railroad building, 22, 23

Ramadan, Said, 203, 205, 206, 233, 248, 249–50

Ramadan, Tariq, 234, 250

Ramazan, Mullah, 146

Ramírez Sánchez, Ilich (Carlos the Jackal), 229

Rauff, Walther, 9, 139, 223

Razmara, Ali, 205

Rechenberg, Hans, 228

Red Crescent, 212

Reile, Oscar, 143

Reinecke, Hermann, 190

Remer, Otto Ernst, 221, 315n76

Reza Khan, 51

Reza Shah, 114, 132

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 10, 117, 124, 134, 136, 161, 165, 247; as al-Husaini supporter, 6; and India jihad plan, 167, 168; and von Papen, 50; and Soviet invasion, 144, 145; Soviet-Nazi alliance, 118–19

Rida, Rashid, 30, 88

Rifat, Mustafa Mansur, 39

Rintelen, Emil von, 162

Ritter, Helmut, 41

Roller, Alfred, 26

Roloff, Max, 47–48

Rommel, Erwin, 7, 9, 136–37, 139, 140, 142, 143, 220

Roosevelt, Franklin, 138

Rosen, Friedrich, 17, 26–27

Rosenberg, Alfred, 128, 146, 150, 168, 180–81, 185, 291n13, 300n143

Roser, Rudolf, 110

Rossel, Karl, 235

Rössler, Otto, 156

Rothschilds, 26

Roy, Manabendra Nath, 49, 60, 73

Russia: Bolshevik revolution, 37–38; German jihad strategy against, 30–31, 36; outbreak of World War I, 32, 35; reaction to German imperialism, 13, 22. See also Soviet Union

as-Sabawi, Yunis, 115, 116, 123, 132

al-Sabbagh, Salah ad-Din, 115

Sabri, Ali, 218

Sabri, Muhammad, 183–84

Sachsenhausen concentration camp: Arab leaders’ tour of, 1, 2–3, 9–10, 164, 223; prototype for death camps, 2

as-Sadat, Anwar, 140, 141, 201, 218, 220, 244

Safarov, Shamil, 39

Safawi, Nawwab, 205, 206, 244

Said, Haddad, 221

Said, Husain, 141

as-Said, Nuri, 100, 119–21, 132, 192, 193, 245

Saladin (Salah ad-Din Yusum al-Aiyyub), 20, 21, 42, 55

Salama, Ali Hasan, 242, 243

Salama, Hasan, 153, 155, 199, 200, 241, 242

Salih, Mahmud, 217

Salisbury, Lord, 42

Salman, Muhammad Hasan, 164

Samuels, Herbert, 67

Sansal, Boualem, 220

as-Sanusi, Ahmad, 68–69

as-Sanusi, Idris, 137

Sanusiyya brotherhood, 47

Sassen, Willem, 308n12

Sauberzweig, Karl-Gustav, 152

Ibn Saud, Abd al-Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia, 48, 70, 100, 117–18, 119, 123, 178, 230

Saudi Arabia: arms shipments through, 97; creation of, 70; employment of Nazi era officials, 210–11; al-Husaini’s relations with, 239, 246; and Nazi-Arab alliance, 126; -Nazi Germany economic relations, 117–18; and Peel Commission plan, 98; and White Paper, 107

Sayyid Husain, Ahmad, 141

Schabinger, Karl E., 44, 54–55, 59

Schacht, Hjalmar, 114–15

Schafer, Ernst, 167

Schellenberg, Walther, 177

Scheubner-Richter, Max Erwin von, 50, 52, 54

Schirach, Baldur von, 116, 152

Schlieffen, Hermann Count von, 12

Schmidt, Paul, 161

Schmitz-Kairo, Paul, 85, 217, 218

Schneeweiss, Rudolf, 225

Schrumpf, Pierre, 8, 157–58

Schubert, Johannes, 156

Schulze-Holthus, Bernhardt, 135–36

Schwammenthal, Daniel, 235

Schweitzer, Albert, 27

Seeckt, Hans von, 59, 76–77

Sellmann, Heinrich, 221–22

September 11 attacks, 230, 246

Serbia, in World War I, 32

ash-Shahrastani, Hibat ad-Din Muhammad, 41, 42

Shalabi, Abd an-Nafi, 81–84, 88

Sharett, Moshe, 102

Sharpley, Anne, 219

Shaukat, Naji, 120, 123, 124, 164

Shaukat, Sami, 116

Shauqi, Ahmad, 158–59

Shia Muslims, 43, 50, 170

Shultz, George, 226

as-Sibai, Mustafa Husni, 248

Sicherheitsdient (SD), 111

Siddiq Khan, Ghulam, 79, 168, 205

Sidqi, Bakr, 115, 116

Simon, Paul M., 47

Siri, Giuseppe, 223

Skorzeny, Otto, 211

Smend, Johannes, 114

Social Democratic Party, 20

Soldier’s Radio, 215

Soloveitchik, Joseph B., 33

Sonnenhol, Gustav Adolf, 231

Souchon, Wilhelm A., 35

Soviet Muslims: -German collaboration, 146, 147, 148–49; German view of, 147; Hitler’s view of, 148–49; in postwar nationalist movements, 226–27; recruitment of, 122, 145, 146, 147–48; in SS units, 155–57

Soviet Union: and Azerbaijan independence movement, 226–27; -German alliance, 118–19, 167–68; German invasion of, 129, 144, 150; German occupation governments in, 146–47, 149–50; and India jihad plan, 168; Iran occupation of, 132, 136; Islamist policy of, 69, 71–72, 74; and Palestinian movement, 239

Spengler, Wilhelm, 211–12

Spuler, Bertold, 155, 231–32

SS: model colony, 185, 189; ODESSA (Organization of Former Members of the SS), 211–12, 214, 216, 217, 227; Soviet Muslim units, 155–57, 181, 199

Stalin, Joseph W., 168

Stanley, Oliver, 165

Station Z, 1–2

Steffen, Hans, 115

Stellbogen, Wilhelm, 118

Stern-Rubarth, Edgar, 50

Stevenson, William, 218–19

Stille Hilfe (Silent Aid), 211

Storrs, Ronald Sir, 64

Stotzingen, Othmar von, 48

Stresemann, Gustav, 44–45

Sudan, jihad uprising in, 16

Suez Canal, 36, 46, 47, 59

Suharto, Muhammad, 224

Sukarno, Ahmad, 205

Sukkar, Abd al-Jalil, 205

Sulaiman, Hikmat, 115, 117

as-Sulh, Riyad, 84, 204, 310–11n50

Sunni Muslims, 43

Supreme Muslim Council, in Palestine, 67

as-Suwaidi, Naji, 117

as-Suwaidi, Taufiq, 100, 117

Swastika symbol, 63

Sykes-Picot Agreement, 62, 64

Syria: anti-Jewish underground in, 65; Ba’ath Party in, 121, 234, 245; British victory in, 132; ex-Axis collaborators in, 245; French mandate, 65, 70; Nazi sympathizers in, 4; Nazi war criminals in, 223–26; Oppenheim’s trip to, 44; Vichy French government, 126

Tahir, Muhammad Ali, 118

al-Tal, Abdullah, 310n50

Talat Pasha, 48, 56, 57

Talfah, Khairallah, 129

at-Tarrazi, Muttahida, 169

Tashkilat-i mahsusa, 35

Templeton Prize, 247–48

Terrorism, financiers of, 230

Theresienstadt concentration camp, 165

Tiefenbacher, Josef, 185

“Tiflis moment”, 136–37

Tito, Josip Broz, 173, 196, 197, 205

Tlass, Mustafa, 220

Tokatlian hotel, 43

Transjordan. See Jordan

Travel Adventures in Kurdistan (May), 27

Treaty of Lausanne (1923), 68

Treaty of Sèvres (1920), 68

Treblinka concentration camp, 185, 189

Truth about the Palestine Question, The (von Leers and al-Husaini), 218

at-Tunisi, Salikh ash-Sharif, 39, 44

Tunisian Jews, 139

Turcoman Division, 149

Turkestan Battalion, 149

Turkey: abolition of caliphate, 69–70; -Afghanistan cooperation, 68; al-Husaini’s escape from, 133, 179; al-Husaini’s spying system in, 111; independence of, 68, 158; al-Kailani’s escape from, 135; -Nazi cooperation, 148; and Pan-Islamism, 68–69; von Papen in, 113. See also Ottoman Empire

Turkish and Pan-Turkish Ideal, The (Alp), 36–37

Türk Yurdu magazine, 147

Ulama Council of Muslim Scholars, 69

“Union Jack” plan 1940, 17, 124

United States: entry into World War II, 162; intelligence on ex-Nazis, 210, 219, 229; intelligence on Muslim Brotherhood, 250; isolationist period, 62; and radical Islamists, 206–7; search for al-Husaini, 173; Von Papen’s sabotage efforts in, 112; war crimes investigation of al-Husaini, 195–96; Wilson’s Fourteen Points, 61–62

Ürgüplü Khairi Bey, 40, 52–53

USSR. See Soviet Union, 144

Vaglieri, Laura Veccia, 84

Vergès, Jacques, 229

Versailles peace conference, 65

Vichy France: and Nazi-Arab alliance, 126, 127–28; persecution of Algerian Jews, 138–39; recruitment of Muslim forces from colonies of, 137, 179

Vienna, Hitler’s early life in, 25–26

Voice of the Free Arabs, 138, 140, 142

Voigt, Hermann, 230–31

Völkischer Beobachter, 85

Voss, Wilhelm, 221

Wafd Party, in Egypt, 106–7, 140, 192

Wagner, Horst, 190

al-Wakil, Mustafa, 195, 141, 156

Wali, Ahmad, 39

Wali Khan, Muhammad, 79, 80

Wall Street Journal, 235

Wangenheim, Hans Freiherr von, 37, 38, 52

Wannsee Conference, 8–9, 147, 162, 163, 223, 296n96

War crimes, of al-Husaini, 194–95, 198

War criminals, Nazi. See Nazi war criminals/officials

Warlimont, Walter, 168

Waßmuß, Wilhelm, 50–51

Der Weg, 216

Weibrecht, Hans, 190

Weimar Republic: business recovery of, 74; economic/political conditions in, 60–61, 73–74; and Middle East, 74–75; military rebuilding in, 76–77; psychological trauma of defeat, 61; rise of Hitler, 78

Weizmann, Chaim, 55, 65

Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 5, 124, 127, 131

Weltkampf: Die Judenfrage in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 181

Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin, 235

Wesendonk, Otto von, 39

West Bank, 202, 242, 243

West Germany: compensation to Israel, 205–6, 211, 228; al-Husaini’s investment funds in, 228–29; on al-Husaini’s status, 207; and Israeli operation against German scientists, 223; Nazi background of diplomats, 230–31; Nazi background of government officials, 210–11, 215, 216, 224, 232; Nazi background of professors, 231–32

Westhoff, Adolf, 190

White Paper (1939), 105–8, 192

Wiesenthal, Simon, 189, 195, 207, 209–10, 212–13, 220, 224

Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 41; abdication of, 61, 73; expansionist policy of, 12–13; at Gallipoli, 48; on Islamism, 24–25; and Jews, 20, 54; and jihad strategy, 12, 13, 16–17, 32; Middle East travels of, 12, 14, 19–21, 21, 24, 42, 55; reputation as protector of Muslims, 21, 42, 45

Willermann, Heinrich, 221

Wilson, Woodrow T., 61–62, 64

Wisliceny, Dieter, 8–9, 163, 164, 165, 166–67, 299n134

Wolfrum, Gerhard, 215, 250

World Muslim Congress, 247–48

World view, Nazi-Islamic, 181–83, 253

World War I: Bolshevik revolution, 37–38; Central Power rulers, 41; German-Ottoman alliance, 33, 48; German-Ottoman jihad strategy in (See Jihad strategy, German-Ottoman); Hitler in, 54; outbreak of, 32; postwar settlement, 70

World War II: Europe, battle for (1940), 119; German surrender, 174; in Middle East, 119–21, 130–33; North African campaign, 136–43, 177; Pearl Harbor attack, 162, 246; Soviet invasion, 118–19, 167–68; Soviet occupation, 146–47, 149–50; U.S. entry, 162. See also Jewish genocide; Muslim forces, German; Nazi-Arab alliance

Wurm, Theophil, 211

Wüst, Walther, 157

Young Egypt Party, 4, 141, 199, 204

Young Men’s Muslim Association, 116

Young Turks, 24, 25, 30, 37, 159

Yugoslavia, 173, 196, 197, 198, 205

Zahedi, Fazlollah, 136

as-Zaim, Husni, 223–24

Zaki Bey, Amin, 141

az-Zaman, Shaudri Khaliq, 205

az-Zawahiri, Aiman, 160, 246, 252

Zech-Nentwig, Hans Walter, 214–16, 250

Zeemann, Dietrich, 216

Zeitler, Walter, 150

Zhitomir meeting, al-Husaini-Himmler, 164, 184–85, 186–88, 189

Zind, Ludwig, 219

Zinoviev, Grigory, 71–72, 72

Zionism: British support for, 55–56, 63; demonized by al-Husaini, 90; in Germany, 20, 54; Hitler’s view of, 78; Ottoman policy on, 56–57. See also Israel