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| | On April 21, 1936, I was informed by telephone from Tulkarm that the city was closed and a national committee would be established today. There was a big demonstration in the streets of the city. During the demonstration, a car drove by and the driver was wearing a western hat. When the protesters started attacking the car, the driver shouted "Heil Hitler", hung the Nazi flag on his car and waved goodbye to the Nazi movement. So the crowd greeted him, took his hat and replaced it with a turban. This story can teach about the Nazi influence among the crowds in the Palestinian street.</blockquote></ref> | | On April 21, 1936, I was informed by telephone from Tulkarm that the city was closed and a national committee would be established today. There was a big demonstration in the streets of the city. During the demonstration, a car drove by and the driver was wearing a western hat. When the protesters started attacking the car, the driver shouted "Heil Hitler", hung the Nazi flag on his car and waved goodbye to the Nazi movement. So the crowd greeted him, took his hat and replaced it with a turban. This story can teach about the Nazi influence among the crowds in the Palestinian street.</blockquote></ref> |
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| | + | From a review of a book on the Templars:<ref>Meir Ronen, |
| | + | [https://www.jpost.com/magazine/books/templer-town Templer town], ''Jerusalem Post'' Magazine, March 13, 2008.</ref> |
| | + | <blockquote>THE TEMPLERS got on well with both Arabs and Jews until Buchhalter formed a branch of the Nazi Party in Jerusalem in 1934. This was followed by the outbreak of the three-year armed Arab revolt against the British Mandate in 1936 and Jerusalem Arabs happily saluted Templer architect and builder Hermann Imberger when he took his Sunday stroll wearing a swastika armband. |
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| | + | Heinrich Fast flew a huge swastika banner from his Fast Hotel next to the Old City wall. One can imagine what a shock this was to the thousands of German-Jewish refugees who arrived in the city. Despite their patriotism, the majority of the Templers were not Nazis and declined to join the Nazi Party or the boycott of Jews (who in turn boycotted the Nazis). Buchhalter was furious when he learned that the Colony's cinema (now the Smadar) was rented to a Jewish operator and in a letter reproduced by Kroyanker threatened a report to Berlin. Buchhalter had previously helped put the Templer owner out of business when he refused to screen Nazi propaganda films. |
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| | + | The cinema went through many names. The new Jewish operator called it the Efrat. The Templer school in the Nazi period was firmly anti-Jewish, and its scouts and girl guides became members of the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls. |
| | + | On occasion, they threw stones at Jews. Yet in 1935, Philip Vorst, head of the Templer Association, banned the Nazi salute in the school. |
| | + | At this time, Nazi propaganda was printed in the huge Schneller complex by Ernst Schneller, grandson of the founder of the "Syrian Orphanage." Buchhalter was in favor of selling the Schneller Compound together with the Bikur Holim Hospital because they were "surrounded by Jews." Quoting British police files, Kroyanker reveals that the Schnellers planned to import arms with which to train Arab groups.</blockquote> |
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| | + | Author:<ref> |
| | + | Kroyanker, David. Jerusalem: The German Colony and Emek Refaim Street: a biography of a neighborhood, the story of a city. [Hamoshava Hagermanit Verehov Emek Refaim]. Israel: Keter, 2008, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHAMAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%AA%2C+%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%93%D7%93%D7%94+%D7%90%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D+%D7%91%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%9C%22 62-3], [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHAMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22%D7%94%D7%A6%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%95%20%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%95%20%D7%91%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%94%22 66]. |
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| | + | מאורעות 1936-1939: |
| | + | במחצית הראשונה של שנות ה-30 עקבו ערביי ארץ-ישראל בדאגה אחר הגידול הדמוגרפי והתחזקות המעמד הכלכלי והפוליטי של היישוב היהודי, הם חששו מן האפשרות שארץ-ישראל תהפוך ל"בית הלאומי" עבור היהודים. מדיניות החוץ התוקפנית של גרמניה הנאצית ושל איטליה הפאשיסטית, עודדה את הערבים בכלל, ואת ערביי ארץ-ישראל בפרט, לראות במתיישבים הגרמנים בעלי ברית פוטנציאליים במאבק נגד היישוב היהודי ונגד הממשל הבריטי. באביב 1936 פרץ המרד הערבי נגד הבריטים, שלווה בשביתה בת חצי שנה. המתיישבים הגרמנים זכו למעמד... |
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| | + | From the events of 1936-1939: |
| | + | In the first half of the 1930s, the Arabs of the Land of Israel anxiously followed the demographic growth and the strengthening of the economic and political status of the Jewish settlement, they feared the possibility that the Land of Israel would become the "national home" for the Jews. The aggressive foreign policy of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy encouraged the Arabs in general, and the Arabs of Israel in particular, to see the German settlers as potential allies in the struggle against the Jewish settlement and the British government. In the spring of 1936, the Arab revolt against the British broke out, followed by a six-month strike. The German settlers were granted status... |
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| | + | משרד ההסברה והתעמולה הגרמני עודד הצטרפות של תלמידים ערבים לבית הספר הגרמני המאוחד, כדי ליצור קדר עתידי של מנהיגות ערבית פרו-גרמנית שתשלוט בעתיד במדינה פלסטינית עצמאית. (גנזך המדינה , חטיבה 67) בהתאם למדיניות זו הוסכם כי מכסת התלמידים הערבים ... |
| | + | בתמונת רחוב אחרת מתאר כנען את האדריכל והקבלן הרמן, אימברגר (ראו בניין מס ' 13 במסלול הסיור הראשון), שהיה: |
| | + | "מטייל בכל יום א' ברחוב הראשי של המושבה הגרמנית בירושלים, כשעל זרועו הסרט עם צלב הקרס. מול ביתו ישבו שוטרים בריטיים וערבים, הראשונים ברכוהו כרגיל באדישות הידידותית , והאחרונים הצדיעו לפניו בהערצה"... |
| | + | מול ביתו ישבו שוטרים בריטיים וערבים, הראשונים ברכוהו כרגיל באדישות הידידותית, והאחרונים הצדיעו לפניו בהערצה". |
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| | + | The German Ministry of Information and Propaganda encouraged Arab students to join the unified German school, in order to create a future cadre of pro-German Arab leadership that will rule in the future in an independent Palestinian state. (Ginzach hamedina, Division 67) In accordance with this policy, it was agreed that the quota of Arab students... |
| | + | In another street photo, Canaan describes the architect and contractor Herman Imberger.. who was: |
| | + | "Walking every Sunday on the main street of the German colony in Jerusalem, with the swastika ribbon on his arm. British and Arab policemen sat in front of his house, the former greeted him as usual with friendly indifference, and the latter saluted him with admiration"...</blockquote></ref> |
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| | + | From the events of 1936-1939... The aggressive foreign policy of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy encouraged the Arabs in general, and the Arabs of Israel in particular, to see the German settlers as potential allies in the struggle against the Jewish settlement and the British government. In the spring of 1936, the Arab revolt against the British broke out, followed by a six-month strike. The German settlers were granted special status. |
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| | + | The German Ministry of Information and Propaganda encouraged Arab students to join the unified German school, in order to create a future cadre of pro-German Arab leadership that will rule in the future in an independent Palestinian state. (Ginzach hamedina, Division 67) In accordance with this policy, it was agreed that the quota of Arab students to be increased. |
| | + | An architect and contractor Herman Imberger.. who was: |
| | + | "Walking every Sunday on the main street of the German colony in Jerusalem, with the swastika ribbon on his arm. British and Arab policemen sat in front of his house, the former greeted him as usual with friendly indifference, and the latter saluted him with admiration"...</blockquote> |
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