'''Rashid Ali al-Gaylani''' [al-Kailani] (Arabic: رشيد علي الكيلاني; 1892 – August 28, 1965) was an [[Iraq]]i politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq three times. Gaylani is known for the attempted pro-Nazi coup - rebellion he staged in April 1941, during [[World War II]], during which he took control, with the help of a group of officers led by Salah al-Din al-Sabah, over the government in Iraq, deposed the legal regent Abd al-Ila from his position, and established a pro-[[Nazi]] government who demanded the expulsion of the British from Iraq. The rebellion ended with a British invasion of Iraq and the start of the Anglo-Iraqi war, and the defeat of al-Gaylani and his men. Shortly after the end of his term of office, the Farhud pogrom raged in Baghdad, during which upto some 1,000 Jews of Baghdad were brutally murdered, children were thrown into water in front of parents, there were mass rapes. The disturbances came following wild incitement against the Jews by Arabs and Nazis, and the bloodletting that characterized the period of his reign, in which he collaborated with the Nazis, and with the Palestine [[Grand Mufti]] Haj Amin al-Husseini.
Known for his virulent anti-Semitism, Bahri stated proudly in a memoir he wrote after the war, "I was the first Arab to collaborate with the Nazis." His hatred towards Jews was so intense that he was summoned for a reprimand in Propaganda Minister Goebbels’s office because of his excessively vitriolic attacks on Jews and especially his constant use of the term “Jewish [sic] criminals.”
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After the failed coup, Al-Gaylani and Mufti Al-Husseini fled<ref>Rubin, B., Schwanitz, W. G. (2014). Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. United Kingdom: Yale University Press, [https://books.google.com/books?id=UHe9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA132 p. 132]</ref> to Europe, both ending up in Berlin helping Nazi machine.
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