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In June 1935, Palestine Arabs asked Hitler for a ban of land sales to Jews.<ref>[⁨⁨https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/chroniclerspokesman/1935/06/14/01/article/26/ Chronicler-Spokesman⁩, 14 June 1935⁩].<blockquote>

In June 1935, Palestine Arabs asked Hitler for a ban of land sales to Jews.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/chroniclerspokesman/1935/06/14/01/article/26/ The Chronicler-Spokesman, 14 June, 1935]..<blockquote>

ARABS ASK SALE OF LAND BAR

ARABS ASK SALE OF LAND BAR

JERUSALEM.  

JERUSALEM.  

A party of one hundred Arabs embarked for Germany today on the liner Galilee at Haifa, to attend the Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg.</blockquote></ref><ref name=waschitz1947/> How the ''Time'' reported it:<ref>[https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,760171,00.html GERMANY: Centre (sic) Of The World!], TIME.com, Monday, Sept. 12, 1938.<br>

A party of one hundred Arabs embarked for Germany today on the liner Galilee at Haifa, to attend the Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg.</blockquote></ref><ref name=waschitz1947/> How the ''Time'' reported it:<ref>[https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,760171,00.html GERMANY: Centre (sic) Of The World!], TIME.com, Monday, Sept. 12, 1938.<br>

Time. United States: Time Incorporated, 1938. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-PMeAQAAMAAJ&q=

Time. United States: Time Incorporated, 1938. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-PMeAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Jew-baiting%22%20arabs p. 32].

%22Jew-baiting%22%20arabs p. 32].

<blockquote>Announced as Adolf Hitler's "honor guests" this week in Nürnberg were 100 certified Jew-baiting Arabs brought especially from Palestine and Africa...</blockquote></ref><blockquote>Announced as Adolf Hitler's "honor guests" this week in Nürnberg were 100 certified Jew-baiting Arabs brought especially from Palestine and Africa...</blockquote>

<blockquote>Announced as Adolf Hitler's "honor guests" this week in Nürnberg were 100 certified Jew-baiting Arabs brought especially from Palestine and Africa...</blockquote></ref><blockquote>Announced as Adolf Hitler's "honor guests" this week in Nürnberg were 100 certified Jew-baiting Arabs brought especially from Palestine and Africa...</blockquote>

In July 1942, the Mufti congratulates (on behalf of the Arab nation) Hitler, in a telegram, on victory in Africa, vows, they will to stay on his side against the "common enemy", to which Hitler replied with thanks.<ref>The Sydney Jewish News⁩, 23 November 1945. [⁨⁨https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/sydneyjn/1945/11/23/01/article/26] ⁩

In July 1942, the Mufti congratulates (on behalf of the Arab nation) Hitler, in a telegram, on victory in Africa, vows, they will to stay on his side against the "common enemy", to which Hitler replied with thanks.<ref>The Sydney Jewish News⁩, 23 November 1945. [https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/sydneyjn/1945/11/23/01/article/26] ⁩

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Exchange of Telegrams Between Hitler and Mufti Estimated

Exchange of Telegrams Between Hitler and Mufti Estimated

In addition (to the 2017 publicized<ref>Israel Price, [https://hamodia.com/2017/06/26/never-seen-photos-mufti-yerushalayim-visiting-nazi-camp-go-auction/ Never-Before-Seen Photos of Mufti of Yerushalayim Visiting Nazi Camp Go on Auction[, Hamodia.com,  2 Tammuz, 5777, June 26, 2017.</ref> photos of showing the Mufti and others at the Trebbin concentration camp), the Mufti also visited Monowitz, also known as Auschwitz III.<ref>[https://www.marchoftheliving.org.uk/survivor-story/ernst-verduin/ Ernst Verduin], <i>March of the Living</i>.

In addition (to the 2017 publicized<ref>Israel Price, [https://hamodia.com/2017/06/26/never-seen-photos-mufti-yerushalayim-visiting-nazi-camp-go-auction/ Never-Before-Seen Photos of Mufti of Yerushalayim Visiting Nazi Camp Go on Auction], Hamodia.com,  2 Tammuz, 5777, June 26, 2017.</ref> photos of showing the Mufti and others at the Trebbin concentration camp), the Mufti also visited Monowitz, also known as Auschwitz III.<ref>[https://www.marchoftheliving.org.uk/survivor-story/ernst-verduin/ Ernst Verduin], <i>March of the Living</i>.

<blockquote>One memory of his time in Auschwitz remains particularly distinctive: “It was a very hot day in June or July 1944 when I was at work in Monowitz, also known as Auschwitz III. And then I suddenly noticed a group of people who looked like actors. They were wearing long robes and strange headgear. Occasionally internees did perform a play in the camp. I wanted to find out myself and as I walked towards that group I was stopped by a high ranking SS-officer whom I didn’t know. He was from the main camp (Auschwitz I) or Birkenau (Auschwitz II). The officer asked me, ‘what do you want?’. ‘I just wanted to know whether these people are actors or not. Is there going to be a stage performance tonight?’ ‘These people aren’t actors,’ the SS-officer told me. ‘They are the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his retinue.’ I then asked him, ‘what is he doing here?’ ‘He is paying a visit to the camp,’ the SS-officer said. ‘He lives in Berlin where he enjoys Hitler’s personal protection. He is now paying a visit to Monowitz to see how Jews are working themselves to death in factories. He is also in Auschwitz to see the gas chambers. When we have won the war he will return to Palestine to build gas chambers and kill the Jews who are living over there.'”

<blockquote>One memory of his time in Auschwitz remains particularly distinctive: “It was a very hot day in June or July 1944 when I was at work in Monowitz, also known as Auschwitz III. And then I suddenly noticed a group of people who looked like actors. They were wearing long robes and strange headgear. Occasionally internees did perform a play in the camp. I wanted to find out myself and as I walked towards that group I was stopped by a high ranking SS-officer whom I didn’t know. He was from the main camp (Auschwitz I) or Birkenau (Auschwitz II). The officer asked me, ‘what do you want?’. ‘I just wanted to know whether these people are actors or not. Is there going to be a stage performance tonight?’ ‘These people aren’t actors,’ the SS-officer told me. ‘They are the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his retinue.’ I then asked him, ‘what is he doing here?’ ‘He is paying a visit to the camp,’ the SS-officer said. ‘He lives in Berlin where he enjoys Hitler’s personal protection. He is now paying a visit to Monowitz to see how Jews are working themselves to death in factories. He is also in Auschwitz to see the gas chambers. When we have won the war he will return to Palestine to build gas chambers and kill the Jews who are living over there.'”

When Haj Amin Al-Husseini visited Auschwitz and Monowitz in the summer of 1944, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being exterminated. The SS-officer who told Verduin about the Mufti’s visit threatened him that if he would not resume work immediately he would leave Monowitz entirely. Verduin, of course, had no intention of being killed in the gas chambers of Birkenau, so he did as he was told. But he informed some of his trusted camp mates of what he had seen.

When Haj Amin Al-Husseini visited Auschwitz and Monowitz in the summer of 1944, hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being exterminated. The SS-officer who told Verduin about the Mufti’s visit threatened him that if he would not resume work immediately he would leave Monowitz entirely. Verduin, of course, had no intention of being killed in the gas chambers of Birkenau, so he did as he was told. But he informed some of his trusted camp mates of what he had seen.