World War II. Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haji Amin al-Husaini, inspects Nazi Muslim-Bosnian SS-troops in the Balkans. Although the Bosnian Muslim´s (and other voluntary Muslims from the Middle East) not really meet the race-requirements to become SS-soliders Himmler accepted them because their fanatic hatred of Jews.
The cooperation between the Grand Mufti and Hitler was based on their common goal of exterminating the Jews. As for the Middle East Hitler promised the Mufti a leadership role in the future treatment of the Jews there.
The Bosnian-Muslim SS-troops was not only looking for Jews to kill; they performed horrific abuse against other ethnic groups in the Balkans, mainly Serbs. This is an often forgotten background of what happened during the civil war in former Jogoslavien in the 1990s.
Reportedly the Mufti was uncle of Yassir Aratat and as young Arafat socialized much with the Grand Mufti. This is certainly one reason for the anti-Jewish attitude of Araft.
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