On the other hand, we know of the Mufti's role in support of Hitler while in Berlin and the Rashid Ali pro-Nazi revolt in Iraq and other instances of not being helpful, including Anwar Sadat's efforts as a willing co-operator in Nazi Germany's espionage according to his own memoirs as well as ideological and political identification of Arabs leaders and Hitlerism.
According to Gilbert Achcar's "The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives" (NY: Henry Holt and Co.; 2009), pp. 125—126, this
exchange occurred when Hitler received Saudi Arabian ruler Ibn Saud's special envoy, Khalid al-Hud al-Gargani. Earlier in this meeting Hitler noted that one of the three reasons why Nazi Germany had warm sympathies for the Arabs was:
[...] because we were jointly fighting the Jews. This led him to discuss Palestine and the conditions there, and he then stated that he himself would not rest until the last Jew had left Germany. Kalid al Hud observed that the Prophet Mohammed [...] had acted the same way. He had driven the Jews out of Arabia [...]
So, here, on February 25, 1947, is British MK Sir R Glyn
My last word is in regard to the Arab League. The Arabs, and indeed all peoples, at our request, made a contribution to fighting the terrorism of Hitler. The Arab League represents a great assembly of religious people, believing in Mohammedanism, and forming an enormous block of power stretching right across that part of the world. We have had contacts with Moslems in every part of the world, we respect their faith and understand it. The Arab League are looking to those nations which understand them to give them a lead.
Glyn was Major Ralph George Campbell Glyn, 1st Baron Glyn, MC, DL (1884 – 1960), a soldier and Conservative Party politician.
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