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[[File:Gunther in 1939- Hitler is tremendously popular with the Arabs. The greatest contemporary Arab hero is – Adolf Hitler.jpg.png|thumb|Gunther in 1939: "Hitler is tremendously popular with the Arabs... The greatest contemporary Arab hero is – Adolf Hitler."]]
[[File:Gunther in 1939- Hitler is tremendously popular with the Arabs. The greatest contemporary Arab hero is – Adolf Hitler.jpg.png|thumb|Gunther in 1939: "Hitler is tremendously popular with the Arabs... The greatest contemporary Arab hero is – Adolf Hitler."]]
Author:<ref>Steininger, R. (2018). Germany and the Middle East: From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel. Germany: Berghahn Books, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wm58DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 p. 1]</ref>
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In the first few years after the First World War, Germany's role in the Middle East was minor, but that changed when Hitler rose to power in 1933. In their hatred for the Jews, the Arabs – especially Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem – admired Hitler...</blockquote>
A few highlights:
A few highlights:
* NYT May 1937, how 'All' of Palestine celebrated Muhammad's birthday with flying Nazi swastika and pictures of Hitler."<ref name=nyt1937>[https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/23/archives/all-arabs-celebrate-prophets-birthday-christians-join-moslems-in.html ALL ARABS CELEBRATE PROPHET'S BIRTHDAY; Christians Join Moslems in Fete Unprecedented in Palestine--Hitler and Duce Cheered]". Wireless to The New York Times. May 23, 1937, Section General, Page 31.</ref>
* NYT May 1937, how 'All' of Palestine celebrated Muhammad's birthday with flying Nazi swastika and pictures of Hitler."<ref name=nyt1937>[https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/23/archives/all-arabs-celebrate-prophets-birthday-christians-join-moslems-in.html ALL ARABS CELEBRATE PROPHET'S BIRTHDAY; Christians Join Moslems in Fete Unprecedented in Palestine--Hitler and Duce Cheered]". Wireless to The New York Times. May 23, 1937, Section General, Page 31.</ref>
* Arabs' newspapers, urging the pupils to disobey Government Education Department issued orders prohibiting Arab pupils to participate in the May 1937 demonstrations.<ref name=jta-1937may23>[https://www.jta.org/archive/swastikas-fly-as-arabs-mark-mohammeds-birthday Swastikas Fly As Arabs Mark Mohammed’s Birthday], ''JTA'', May 23, 1937</ref>
* Arabs' newspapers, urging the pupils to disobey Government Education Department issued orders prohibiting Arab pupils to participate in the May 1937 demonstrations.<ref name=jta-1937may23>[https://www.jta.org/archive/swastikas-fly-as-arabs-mark-mohammeds-birthday Swastikas Fly As Arabs Mark Mohammed’s Birthday], ''JTA'', May 23, 1937</ref>
* 1937, Doehle [Walter Döhle], German consul in Jerusalem: "Palestinian Arabs in all social strata have great sympathies for the new Germany and its Führer…"<ref name=jj2018>Lyn Julius, "[https://jewishjournal.org/2018/02/08/arab-anti-semitism-and-the-nazis/ Arab anti-Semitism, and the Nazis]", '"Jewish Journal'', February 8, 2018.</ref> Unveiled documents of Nazi official in Palestine writing to Berlin in 1937:<ref name=ynet-7may2006>Yaakov Lappin, [https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248081,00.html "Nazis 'shipped arms to Palestinians'"], ''Ynet,'' May 7, 2006.</ref><blockquote>‘Arabs admire our Fuhrer’ - “The Palestinian Arabs show on all levels a great sympathy for the new Germany and its Fuhrer, a sympathy whose value is particularly high as it is based on a purely ideological foundation,” a Nazi official in Palestine wrote in a letter to Berlin in 1937. He added: “Most important for the sympathies which Arabs now feel towards Germany is their admiration for our Fuhrer, especially during the unrests, I often had an opportunity to see how far these sympathies extend. When faced with a dangerous behaviour of an Arab mass, when one said that one was German, this was already generally a free pass.”</blockquote>
* 1937, Doehle [Walter Döhle], German consul in Jerusalem: "Palestinian Arabs in all social strata have great sympathies for the new Germany and its Führer…"<ref name=jj2018>Lyn Julius, "[https://jewishjournal.org/2018/02/08/arab-anti-semitism-and-the-nazis/ Arab anti-Semitism, and the Nazis]", '"Jewish Journal'', February 8, 2018.</ref><ref>Steininger, R. (2018). Germany and the Middle East: From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel. Germany: Berghahn Books, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wm58DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA40 p. 40].
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The newly appointed Consul General Walter Döhle reported...
Döhle – who had already been greeted by an Arab with the cry 'Hoch Deutschland' (esteemed Germany ) – continued the trip on his own and later reported to Berlin:
'When I stopped on the road to mount a highly visible swastika flag on the radiator of my car, in addition to the official flag attached to the flag stand, a car with Arabs came from the direction of Nablus. I spoke to the Arabs. They agreed to assist me during the passage through Jenin. The transit through Jenin went slowly, with stops about every five metres. My car was constantly surrounded by an excited crowd equipped with sticks and sabres (old German weapons). Five to six Arabs stood on the footboard of my car in a permanent parley, in which I only intervened with the Arabic words 'Konsul almani' and the German greeting 'Heil Hitler'. The response from the Arab side followed likewise with 'Heil Hitler' and applause so that the trip bore comparison to a triumphal procession.
Among the Arabs, the German greeting 'Heil Hitler', symbolic of the Führer's and the Reich Chancellor's popularity, had the strongest impact on this frenzied mob.'
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On 22 March 1937, in a comprehensive 17 - page memorandum, Consul General Döhle considered further German policies with regard to Palestine...
'On every level, the Palestinian Arabs show great affection for the new Germany and its leader, a support that is worth all the more as it is based on purely idealistic concepts...
However, what is decisive for the affection that now exists towards Germany among the Arabs is the admiration which our Führer enjoys. Especially at times of unrest, there have been more opportunities to determine how deep this liking ...'</small></blockquote></ref> Unveiled documents of Nazi official in Palestine writing to Berlin in 1937:<ref name=ynet-7may2006>Yaakov Lappin, [https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3248081,00.html "Nazis 'shipped arms to Palestinians'"], ''Ynet,'' May 7, 2006.</ref><blockquote>‘Arabs admire our Fuhrer’ - “The Palestinian Arabs show on all levels a great sympathy for the new Germany and its Fuhrer, a sympathy whose value is particularly high as it is based on a purely ideological foundation,” a Nazi official in Palestine wrote in a letter to Berlin in 1937. He added: “Most important for the sympathies which Arabs now feel towards Germany is their admiration for our Fuhrer, especially during the unrests, I often had an opportunity to see how far these sympathies extend. When faced with a dangerous behaviour of an Arab mass, when one said that one was German, this was already generally a free pass.”</blockquote>