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The DAL attracted not only Arab students already in Europe but Arab prisoners-of-war – mainly Palestinians, from the battles of Greece and Crete – as well as refugees from Iraq and Syria. One prominent recruit was Fawzi el-Kaukji, a Syrian-born Arab who in 1936 had commanded a 200-man guerilla band against the British in Palestine. Kaukji had risen to the rank of major in the Iraqi army but he spent most of the war in Berlin, where he married a German woman and enjoyed a life of indolent luxury.</blockquote>  

The DAL attracted not only Arab students already in Europe but Arab prisoners-of-war – mainly Palestinians, from the battles of Greece and Crete – as well as refugees from Iraq and Syria. One prominent recruit was Fawzi el-Kaukji, a Syrian-born Arab who in 1936 had commanded a 200-man guerilla band against the British in Palestine. Kaukji had risen to the rank of major in the Iraqi army but he spent most of the war in Berlin, where he married a German woman and enjoyed a life of indolent luxury.</blockquote>  

<b>At Concentration Camp/s</b>

<b>At Concentration Camp/s</b>

In 1920, 1929 and 1936 successively, Al-Husseini incited the Arab population of the area against the Jews and the British.  The violence killed hundreds of people.  In 1936 he also called for an anti-Jewish boycott and demanded from the British administration an end to all Jewish immigration and a ban on the sale of land to Jews.  In April 1941, the Mufti was in Baghdad, inciting the population to a pogrom that killed 120 Jews and participating in a failed uprising against British rule.  He then fled to Berlin.

In 1920, 1929 and 1936 successively, Al-Husseini incited the Arab population of the area against the Jews and the British.  The violence killed hundreds of people.  In 1936 he also called for an anti-Jewish boycott and demanded from the British administration an end to all Jewish immigration and a ban on the sale of land to Jews.  In April 1941, the Mufti was in Baghdad, inciting the population to a pogrom that killed 120 Jews and participating in a failed uprising against British rule.  He then fled to Berlin.

From Vught to Monowitz

From Vught to Monowitz

Ernst Verduin and his family members were arrested in early 1943 and detained in Vught concentration camp.  Later that year they were transported to the death camps in Poland.  According to Verduin, it was already known in the spring of 1943 in camp Vught that Jews were being gassed in Auschwitz-Birkenau.  The source was an SS man who had been transferred from Auschwitz to Vught.  Knowing the likely fate that awaited him, Verduin was able to save his life when he himself ended up in Auschwitz shortly afterwards.  He was assigned to the "gas chamber group" by an SS selection officer, but managed to escape from the line and join a "work commando" formed a little further away.  Verduin got the number 150811 tattooed on his arm and was eventually put to work in Monowitz ('Auschwitz-3').  There, on a warm day, he saw "some five men in long snow-white burnoose, with gold belts and with white headscarves surrounded by thick gold bands and a lot of gold on their hands, accompanied by a number of high SS men from the Stammlager Auschwitz.  walk the Lagerstrasze.  I wanted to see what kind of play that was, not familiar with the clothes of these people, but was stopped by an ordinary SS man from my own camp.  When I asked hi what kind of people they were, he said it was not a game at all, but the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his retinue, who came to see how the Germans let the Jews work themselves to death, so that he could do the same in Palestine with all those Jews who lived there."

Ernst Verduin and his family members were arrested in early 1943 and detained in Vught concentration camp.  Later that year they were transported to the death camps in Poland.  According to Verduin, it was already known in the spring of 1943 in camp Vught that Jews were being gassed in Auschwitz-Birkenau.  The source was an SS man who had been transferred from Auschwitz to Vught.  Knowing the likely fate that awaited him, Verduin was able to save his life when he himself ended up in Auschwitz shortly afterwards.  He was assigned to the "gas chamber group" by an SS selection officer, but managed to escape from the line and join a "work commando" formed a little further away.  Verduin got the number 150811 tattooed on his arm and was eventually put to work in Monowitz ('Auschwitz-3').  There, on a warm day, he saw "some five men in long snow-white burnoose, with gold belts and with white headscarves surrounded by thick gold bands and a lot of gold on their hands, accompanied by a number of high SS men from the Stammlager Auschwitz.  walk the Lagerstrasze.  I wanted to see what kind of play that was, not familiar with the clothes of these people, but was stopped by an ordinary SS man from my own camp.  When I asked hi what kind of people they were, he said it was not a game at all, but the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his retinue, who came to see how the Germans let the Jews work themselves to death, so that he could do the same in Palestine with all those Jews who lived there."

Al-Husseini was known to have made "working visits" to the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek extermination camps.  ...</font></blockquote></ref><ref name=emersonvermaat/><ref>Emerson Vermaat, [https://www.investigativeproject.org/3479/dutch-holocaust-survivor-i-saw-how-the-mufti Dutch Holocaust Survivor - "I Saw How The Mufti Of Jerusalem Paid A Visit To Auschwitz-Monowitz"], Pipeline News, March 5, 2012.

Al-Husseini was known to have made "working visits" to the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek extermination camps.  ...</font></blockquote></ref><ref name=emersonvermaat/><ref>Emerson Vermaat, [https://www.investigativeproject.org/3479/dutch-holocaust-survivor-i-saw-how-the-mufti Dutch Holocaust Survivor - "I Saw How The Mufti Of Jerusalem Paid A Visit To Auschwitz-Monowitz"], Pipeline News, March 5, 2012.