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It was against this political backdrop that SS chief Heinrich Himmler invited select Nazis and their guests to visit his concentration camp system. At the end of June, Grobba noted, the two Arabs each instructed two of their aides to join an SS training course that included a visit to a concentration camp. Al-Kailani wanted to go along to see if this system could be a model for Iraq, where there was a large Jewish community. Grobba agreed: The assistants were going anyway, so there was nothing wrong with it. Still, the SS asked the German Foreign Office to sign on.<ref>Wolfgang G. Scwanitz, [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/amin-al-husseini-nazi-concentration-camp Photographic Evidence Shows Palestinian Leader Amin al-Husseini at a Nazi Concentration Camp], ''Tablet Magazine'', Apr 7, 2021</ref>}}
It was against this political backdrop that SS chief Heinrich Himmler invited select Nazis and their guests to visit his concentration camp system. At the end of June, Grobba noted, the two Arabs each instructed two of their aides to join an SS training course that included a visit to a concentration camp. Al-Kailani wanted to go along to see if this system could be a model for Iraq, where there was a large Jewish community. Grobba agreed: The assistants were going anyway, so there was nothing wrong with it. Still, the SS asked the German Foreign Office to sign on.<ref>Wolfgang G. Scwanitz, [https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/amin-al-husseini-nazi-concentration-camp Photographic Evidence Shows Palestinian Leader Amin al-Husseini at a Nazi Concentration Camp], ''Tablet Magazine'', Apr 7, 2021</ref>}}
==Iraq==
[[File:Mufti-al-Husseni-with-Al-Gaylani.1941.jpg|thumb|Mufti, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini [محمد أمين الحسيني] and Rashid Ali al-Gaylani [رشيد عالي الگيلاني] in 1941, Iraq Arab-Nazi coup. (Younis Bahri first from the left)]]
In 1941, there was a brief Arab Pro-[[Nazi]] coup, by the four Iraqi nationalist army generals, known as "the Golden Square," the Mufti, [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem|Mohammed Amin al-Husseini]] [محمد أمين الحسيني] and Rashid Ali al-Gaylani [رشيد عالي الگيلاني] assisted by al-Muthanna / Futuwwa (modeled on [[Hitler]]-Youth) fascist groups.
The coup was later repelled by the Brits.
[[File:Farhoud.jpg|thumb|Farhoud]]
The Mufti also incited to the infamous ''Farhud'' ([الفرهود] Farhoud) pogrom against Iraqi [[Jews]] on ''Shavuot'', June 1-2, (just before the new government settled in) , carried out by Futuwwa and others including policemen. It came after months of instigation, including by the Mufti and his associates Darwish al-Mikdadi and [[Akram Zuaiter]], portions of ''Mein Kampf'' in Arabic publications and Younis Bahri's Berlin 'voice of Hitler in Arabic' radio broadcasts. It was brutal: "Hundreds of Jews were cut down by sword and rifle, some decapitated. Babies were sliced in half and thrown into the Tigris river. Girls were raped in front of their parents. Parents were mercilessly killed in front of their children."<ref>Black, Edwin. The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. United States: Dialog Press, 2018. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Farhud/SklVwAEACAAJ?hl=en].<br>
[https://jewishunpacked.com/farhud-the-nazi-fueled-pogrom-in-iraq-that-led-to-the-jews-leaving-the-country/ The Nazi fueled pogrom in Iraq that led to the Jews leaving the country], JewishUnpacked May 23, 2022.
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Hundreds of Jews were cut down by sword and rifle, some decapitated. Babies were sliced in half and thrown into the Tigris river. Girls were raped in front of their parents. Parents were mercilessly killed in front of their children. Hundreds of Jewish homes and businesses were looted, then burned.</blockquote></ref> Some estimate Jewish fatalities victims to be up to a 1,000.<ref>Carole Basri, [https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-farhud-the-2-stage-ethnic-cleansing-of-iraqi-jewry/ First came the Farhud: The 2-stage ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jewry], ''TOI'', June 2, 2021.</ref> With [[Yunis al-Sabawi]] planning a greater massacre, foiled.
During [[WW2]], senior officials in the Iraqi Ministry of Education, like Sami Shawkat and Fadhil al-Jamali, sustained firm ties with Fritz Grobba and "frustrated an initiative by the Iraqi security services to deport German teachers who were spreading Nazi propaganda in Baghdadi high schools. They also maintained a pro-Nazi nationalist organization."<ref>Yehuda, Zvi. The New Babylonian Diaspora: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Community in Iraq, 16th-20th Centuries C.E.. Netherlands: Brill, 2017, [https://books.google.com/books?id=NSQzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA253 p. 253].
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Nuri al-Sa'id, according to Grobba, agreed on the eve of the war to send a delegation from the al-Futuwwa youth organization to Germany in order to participate in a conference of the German Nazi Party. Senior officials in the Iraqi Ministry of Education, such as <b>Sami Shawkat and Fadhil al-Jamali, sustained firm ties with Grobba and frustrated an initiative by the Iraqi security services to deport German teachers who were spreading Nazi propaganda in Baghdadi high schools. They also maintained a pro-Nazi nationalist organization.</small></blockquote></ref>
See also ''[[Fadhel al-Jamali]]''.
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