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After the capture of Baghdad, the ''Farhud'', brutal anti-Jewish pogroms took place in the poorly secured outskirts on June 1 and 2 -- led by al-Muthanna's hitler-youth type ''Futuwwa'' assisted by some police -- during which more than a hundred people died and a much larger number were injured. As a result of the violence, most Iraqi Jews emigrated in the following years, thus marking the end of the Jewish community in the country.
After the capture of Baghdad, the ''Farhud'', brutal anti-Jewish pogroms took place in the poorly secured outskirts on June 1 and 2 -- led by al-Muthanna's hitler-youth type ''Futuwwa'' assisted by some police -- during which more than a hundred people died and a much larger number were injured. As a result of the violence, most Iraqi Jews emigrated in the following years, thus marking the end of the Jewish community in the country.
On June 1, 1941,<ref>Reference Guide to the Nazis and Arabs During the Holocaust: A Concise Guide to the Relationship and Conspiracy of the Nazis and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in North Africa and the Middle East During the Era of the Holocaust. (2006). United States: International Sephardic Leadership Council. [https://books.google.com/books?id=T2g2XA53UOEC&pg=PA40 p. 40]</ref> a delegation of Iraqi Jews, sent to meet the Regent Abdul Illah arriving at Baghdad airport , was attacked by a mob as they crossed Al Khurr Bridge. Violence quickly spread to the Al Rusafa and Abu Sifyan districts and got worse the next day, when Iraqi policemen joined in on the attacks on the Jewish community ... Iraq.
On that June 1 day, frenzied mobs murdered Jews openly on
the streets. Women were raped as their horrified families looked on. Infants were killed in front of their parents. Home and stores were emptied and then burned. Gunshots and screams electrified the city for hours upon hours. Beheadings, torsos sliced open, babies dismembered, horrid tortures, and mutilations were widespread. Severed limbs were waved here and there as trophies. One man
remembered, “The mutilation of the bodies ... had distorted the victims' bodies and faces beyond recognition.”<ref>Black, E. (2009). Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust. (n.p.): Dialog Press. [https://books.google.com/books?id=f9LrEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT499 Ch. 14]</ref>