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Adolf Hitler
on Islam and the Muslims
by Sean Jobst
[This is from an essay I wrote on 24 April 2006. I have made
serious revisions and updates to the text, which is contained in
this current form.-2 June 2007]*
Islam remains the most misunderstood religion in the world. Even
though a quarter of the world's population adheres to its
doctrines, there is little honest debate on Islam since the
entire debate is dominated by those harboring an agenda. So
Islam is dismissed as an evil, backward, and warlike religion.
But many non-Muslims have rejected the propaganda of the
Zionists, Orientalists, and Christian missionaries. Several of
the greatest minds in European history have praised Islam,
including Samuel Johnson, Johann Goethe, Comte de Gobineau,
George Bernard Shaw, and Julius Evola. Another was that great
statesman(1) Adolf Hitler, who contrasted the spread of Islam
with the results of Christianity:
"In those continents which were inhabited, failure has been even
more marked. In them, the white races have imposed their will by
force, and the influence they have had on the native inhabitants
has been negligible; the Hindus have remained Hindus, the
Chinese have remained Chinese, and the Moslems are still
Moslems. There have been no profound transformations, and such
changes as have occurred are less marked in the religious field,
notwithstanding the tremendous efforts of the Christian
missionaries, than in any other. There have been a few odd
conversions the sincerity of which are open to considerable
doubt - except, perhaps in the case of a few simpletons and
mentally deficients. The white races did, of course, give some
things to the natives, and they were the worst gifts that they
could possibly have made, those plagues of our own modern world
- materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism and syphilis. For the
rest, since these peoples possessed qualities of their own which
were superior to anything we could offer them, they have
remained essentially unchanged. Where imposition by force was
attempted, the results were even more disastrous, and common
sense, realizing the futility of such measures, should preclude
any recourse to their introduction. One solitary success must be
conceded to the colonizers: everywhere they have succeeded in
arousing hatred, a hatred that urges these peoples, awakened
from their slumbers by us, to rise and drive us out. Indeed, it
looks almost as though they had awakened solely and simply for
that purpose! Can anyone assert that colonization has increased
the number of Christians in the world? Where are those
conversions en masse which mark the success of Islam? Here and
there one finds isolated islets of Christians, Christians in
name, that is, rather than by conviction; and that is the sum
total of the successes of this magnificent Christian religion,
the guardian of supreme Truth!"(2)
This was a reiteration of his earlier statement in Mein Kampf.
He was very impressed by Islam as he saw its great advances in
Europe. By contrast, he saw the Christian church in disunity,
losing "millions and millions of inward adherents" and
ineffective in its overseas mission efforts:
"An examination of the religious situation before the War shows
that the general process of disruption had extended to this
sphere also. A great part of the nation itself had for a long
time already ceased to have any convictions of a uniform and
practical character in their ideological outlook on life. In
this matter the point of primary importance was by no means the
number of people who renounced their church membership but
rather the widespread indifference. While the two Christian
denominations maintained missions in Asia and Africa, for the
purpose of securing new adherents at home in Europe. These
former adherents either gave up religion wholly as a directive
force in their lives or they adopted their own interpretation of
it. The consequences of this were specially felt in the moral
life of the country. In parentheses it may be remarked that the
progress made by the missions in spreading the Christian Faith
abroad was only quite modest in comparison with the spread of
Mohammedanism [sic]."(3)
This is an interesting observation and puts into perspective his
later statement in his Political Testament. He contrasted
Christianity with Islam, obviously favorable to the latter. The
overwhelming attraction the holy city of Makkah had for the
Muslims, he sought to emulate for Germany and the National
Socialist movement:
"Only the existence of such a seat or centre, around which a
magic charm such as that of Mecca or Rome is woven, can supply a
movement with that permanent driving force which has its sources
in the internal unity of the movement and the recognition of one
head as representing this unity."(4)
WHAT WOULD HITLER SAY TODAY?
Unlike Islam, the Christian churches came to lose any uniform or
practical worldview. While the former retained an amazing
devotion from its adherents, this certainly was not the case
with Christianity. Its hierarchy has compromised even the most
basic doctrines, through opportunistic compromises with
governments and temporal authorities. Its contradictory doctrine
of the Trinity (which violates the very essence of Divinity and
which was ascribed later by those who never knew Jesus), has led
Christianity towards a materialist direction, devoid of a
spiritual and ideological sustenance that provides a real
solution to social and economic ills.
This brings us to the matter of how Islam is portrayed among
certain reactionary "nationalist" groups, some of which ascribe
themselves to Hitler's legacy. But given his actual recorded
statements, we can say Hitler would reject such narrow-minded,
petty nationalism, as unworthy of European and Germanic honor.
He would no doubt deplore the decadence and moral decay in
modern Europe, a trend he sought to reverse with his National
Socialist movement. If he were alive today, Hitler would look
upon favorably at the piety of the Muslim immigrants in Europe
compared to the indigenous Christians. At least the majority
have rejected the very things which made Hitler appalled.
Islam is the fastest-growing religion, not least because of its
remarkable conversion rates. Given his profound respect for
natural laws, Hitler would look upon the larger birthrates of
the Muslims and their success as attracting a growing number of
converts, as demonstrative of the vitality of Islam. He would
not let strict racial beliefs undermine him in this regard.(5)
He would look upon the mass immigration of Muslims into Europe
as the fault of the European peoples themselves. Since they have
lost any real noble and inspiring cause to protect, once they
abandoned the values of their ancestors and replaced these with
a thoroughly decadent lifestyle.
He would view the situation in light of the Europeans ignoring
biological laws, by preferring their comfortable materialist,
hedonist, lifestyle to increasing their numbers. Finally, he
would be brought to tears by the failure of its people to
appreciate his efforts in throwing-off the yoke of Zionism and a
Globalist Capitalism which do nothing but harm the cultural and
social integrity of all nations nation, with its predatory and
usurious dictates.
Hitler, who devoted so much and sacrificed greatly for the cause
of his folk and Europeans in general, would be disappointed at
the failure of the vast majority of his kindred to live up to
the ideal espoused by National Socialism. He would point out how
values such as honor thrives elsewhere, more than modern Europe.
His attitude would be bitterness mixed with pity, for the
situation of the world and Europe in particular since 1945.
Finally, Hitler would contrast the situation of the West - where
deceptive propaganda against National Socialist Germany and the
Europeans who fought for an idealistic Europe, prevails - with
that of the Islamic world, which generally holds a very
different opinion of his own legacy and rejects the hypocrisy of
the Allied powers who subjugated Arabs and Muslims to
imperialism, not to mention an entirely different view of the
alleged Holocaust, which has been used to instill guilt into
Western Christians (and Gentiles in general), swindle Germany
and other nations out of countless billions, and justify the
continued genocide against the Palestinians.
HITLER AND THE ISLAMIC SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE
 Hitler
would no doubt look with admiration at the resistant spirit of
the Muslims, who refuse to submit to the very same Zionist and
Capitalist forces which subjugated Germany (with a separate
economic system free from the Western system, which thrives on
usury and exploitation) to its own ideological and economic
system.
The spirit of resistance has largely ceased in the West, with
the exceptions of small numbers of dedicated Nationalists and
Anti-Globalization activists. But the banner has been taken-up
by the Muslims, who are vilified solely because they seek to
uphold and live according to their own laws and cultural
traditions, without having other laws and cultural traditions
forced upon them.
I mean not to compare the higher concept of Jihad with the
militarist policies of Hitler, who sought an imperialist drive
to the East, at the expense of the Russians and other Slavic
peoples. But I do mean in the sense of currently possessing the
same ideological enemies, who have the very same
internationalist objectives.
Both martial doctrines contained several complimentary aspects:
idealistic and militaristic, personal and social, national and
regional. Indeed, the name of his well-known autobiography,
rendered into Arabic, is....My Jihad! The German word "kampf"
(struggle) is not as extensive as Jihad, at least in its
spiritual sense. But it too contains a range of expressions,
which signifies a defensive and purifying struggle. We consult
the German interpretation of the meaning of the Holy Qur'an:
"Kämpfe darum für Allahs Sache." (Then fight in the Cause of
Allah). {Surah an-Nisa', 4:84}
"O Prophet, feuere die Gläubigen zum Kampf an." (O Prophet!
rouse the Believers to fight). {Surah al-Anfal, 8:65}
We as Muslims should proudly hold up the Qur'an, which inspired
generations with the spirit of struggle and resistance. We
should reject those who apologize for our principles, by
upholding this uncreated Word of Allah (Subhanahu wa-Ta'ala).
There is nothing for us to be shameful about, for we are
adherents of a revolutionary Deen.
The Holy Qur'an exposes and condemns in the strongest terms, the
primary characteristics of the Zionists, Globalists, and all
those bloodsuckers whose raison d'etre is exploitation, while
ours is to uphold and express Higher Values. So you tell me we
are "anti-Semitic"? It does not matter you come to us with this
ridiculous false term, which like so many other concepts in the
contemporary political discourse, have assumed a life of their
own.
Our enemies despise our spirit of resistance and struggle. This
is the same reason they tried to draw parallels between Islam
and National Socialism. In 1937, Catholic writer Edgar Alexander
labelled National Socialism a new "political Islam" and
considered Hitler its prophet, in an obvious attack upon our
Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam).(6)
Protestant theologian Karl Barth considered National Socialism a
"new Islam", its myth as a new Allah, and Hitler as the new
prophet. With an obvious allusion to Islam, he asserted "at the
point where it meets with resistance, it can only crush and kill
- with the might and right which belongs to Divinity."(7)
The French petty-nationalist Charles Maurras, an apologist for
imperialism who hated both Islam and Germany, seemed to be a man
possessed by his own hatred. In 1918, he had called "Germanism"
the "Islam des terres sans soleil" and repeated himself when he
called National Socialism an "Islam of the North."(8)
Why were these comparisons drawn? There had to be some deeper
meaning behind these comparisons. The values of the modern 
decadent West and conventional forms of Christianity, felt
threatened on an ideological level by both Islam and National
Socialism. In the case of the latter, many Germans were
formulating a radically-different interpretation of
Christianity, which abandoned the contradictory doctrine of the
Trinity and stressed the revolutionary aspects of Jesus and the
mystical expressions of Christendom.
In this regard, an English professor published a book in 1942,
condemning "the new absolutism", which was typical of British
imperialist apologists, who couched their rhetoric in abstract,
humanistic, terms. He identified four examples of "barbarism"
throughout history, which he contrasted with the "superiority"
of the Anglo-Saxon world: The Saracens [Arabs], 'Albigensian
Heresy' [Christian Gnostics who rejected the Trinity], the
Turks, and the Germans.(9)
On the eve of the war, a Serbian author wrote a book likewise
hostile to both Germans and Muslims, particularly those from the
Balkans. The German "obeys out of passion" and possessive of "a
mind bemused by a superiority complex." Both the Germans and
Japanese "are without political imagination." He praised Kemal
Atatürk for having "liberated the Turkish mind from the long
tyranny of the Koran." And he said: "Adolf Hitler is undoubtedly
the greatest German extremist, and farthest from that
Anglo-Saxon quality which is known as measure and
moderation."(10)
THE EUROPEAN VS. TALMUDIC SPIRIT
Adolf Hitler was of Catholic origin. But his attitude towards
religion was complex. He firmly believed in the existence of God
but rejected the distorted picture of Jesus as propagated by the
Christian churches. Hitler frequently evoked Jesus'
revolutionary struggle against injustice, especially against the
usurious policies of the Talmudic money-changers.
He repeatedly stressed how the true message of Jesus had become
loss in the teachings of the churches. The alien Talmudic spirit
prevailed over the native European ethos. False doctrines of
"turning-the-other-cheek", which were conditioned to a message
intended for a certain people in a specific period of history,
were exploited by the unscrupulous and had devastated the
European peoples.
Hitler gave a far-sighted comparison of these conflicting
Talmudic(11) and European spirits. One fundamental difference
was the striving for a Hereafter, and a deep concern for moral
problems and social justice:
"In the Aryan mind no religion can ever be imagined unless it
embodies the conviction that life in some form or other will
continue after death. As a matter of fact, the Talmud is not a
book that lays down principles according to which the individual
should prepare for the life to come. It only furnishes rules for
a practical and convenient life in this world....
"But the Jewish religious teaching is not concerned with moral
problems. It is rather concerned with economic problems, and
very petty ones at that. In regard to the moral value of the
religious teaching of the Jews there exist and always have
existed quite exhaustive studies....which show up the kind of
religion that the Jews have in a light that makes it look very
uncanny to the Aryan mind. The Jew himself is the best example
of the kind of product which this religious training evolves.
His life is of this world only and his mentality is as foreign
to the true spirit of Christianity as his character was foreign
to the great Founder of this new creed two thousand years
ago."(12)
"The Jew artfully enkindled that innate yearning for social
justice which is a typical Aryan characteristic."(13)
The events by which these alien influences seeped into the
Aryans and shaped Christianity as it exists today, is one which
can fill volumes. But the Führer provided us an excellent
summary:
"The first Jews came into what was then called Germania during
the period of the Roman invasion; and, as usual, they came as
merchants. During the turmoil caused by the great migrations of
the German tribes the Jews seem to have disappeared. We may
therefore consider the period when the Germans formed the first
political communities as the beginning of that process whereby
Central and Northern Europe was again, and this time
permanently, Judaized. A development began which has always been
the same or similar wherever and whenever Jews came into contact
with Aryan peoples."(14)
Because he sought to hold firm to a different view of
Christianity, he recognized that Islam contained those elements
which the organized churches had compromised. These include an
honorable warrior spirit, actual yearning for the Hereafter, and
a firm commitment to social justice. He contrasted the Islamic
conception of divinity (tawheed) favorably with the Trinitarian
doctrine:
"It adds little to our knowledge of the Creator when some person
presents to us an indifferent copy of a man as his conception of
the Deity. In this respect, at least, the Mohammedan [sic] is
more enlightened, when he says: to form a conception of Allah is
not vouchsafed to man."(15)
Unlike the brutal manner of the Talmudic-Old Testament
conception of an angry tribal god, and the manner in which the
Trinitarian doctrine was forced upon the European tribes and
peoples, Islam did not need to use force to spread its
doctrines:
"Just as in Islam, there is no kind of terrorizing in the
Japanese State religion, but on the contrary, a promise of
happiness. This terror in religion is a product, to put it
briefly, of Jewish dogma."(16)
ISLAM, A RELIGION COMPATIBLE TO THE
GERMANIC PEOPLES
I  n
his private conversations, Hitler expressed "a violent feeling
of anger at the idea that some Germans were able to be taken in
by theological doctrines devoid of any depth," but contrasted
these doctrines with "those of Confucius, of Buddha and of
Muhammad," each of which provided spiritual "sustenance."(17) He
also said: "The only religion I respect is Islam. The only
prophet I admire is the Prophet Muhammad."(18)
His conversations on a number of subjects were recorded by his
closest confidants. One of these was Albert Speer, chief
architect and Reich Minister of Armaments and Munitions, who
quoted Hitler's regret the Germans accepted Christianity rather
than religions which would have been more compatible to them:
"Hitler usually concluded this historical speculation by
remarking: 'You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong
religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who
regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The
Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to
us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with
its meekness and flabbiness?'"(19)
There was another aspect which several other National Socialist
leaders discussed. This was the utterly violent manner in which
Christianity subjugated the Aryan peoples to its creed. A rather
dogmatic subject, although the descendants of these people like
to forget and pretend Islam spread "by the sword"(20)!
Hitler praised the manner in which Islam explained the concept
of Divinity and relation of human beings to their Creator. He
praised its vital spiritual arguments and connection to another
higher world: "I can imagine people being enthusiastic about the
paradise of Muhammad, but as for the insipid paradise of the
Christians!"(21)
Like many other Europeans, Hitler praised the manner in which
Islam preserved knowledge of ancient cultures and transmitted it
to Europe, allowing Europeans to embrace their own ancient
heritage. During a meeting at the Wehrwolf (headquarters on the
Eastern Front) on the afternoon of 28 August 1942, Hitler said:
"It is only with the Roman empire where one can say that culture
was a factor under the government. The government of the Arabs
in Spain too was infinitely distinguished: Many scientists,
thinkers, astronomers, mathematicians, one of the most humane
times, at the same time as a colossal knighthood. When, later,
Christianity came there, then one can say: barbarians. The
knighthood that the Castilians have is actually one of Arab
heritage.
"Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers - Already,
you see, the world had already fallen into the hands of the
Jews, so gutless a thing Christianity! - Then we should in all
probability have been converted to Mohammedanism, that cult
which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh
Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would
have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from
doing so."(22)
Hitler provided an interesting analysis of religion, how its
doctrines and practices were formulated. He conceded that Islam
was the work of a higher authority, more expressive of genius
than the doctrines of Christianity:
"The instructions of a hygienic nature that most religions gave,
contributed to the foundation of organised communities. The
precepts ordering peoples to wash, to avoid certain drinks, to
fast at appointed dates, to take exercise, to rise with the sun,
to climb to the top of the minaret - all these were obligations
invented by intelligent people. The exhortation to fight
courageously is also self-explanatory. Observe, by the way,
that, as a corollary, the Moslem was promised a paradise people
with sensual girls, where wine flowed in streams - a real
Earthly paradise. The Christians, on the other hand, declare
themselves satisfied if after their death they are allowed to
sing Hallelujahs! All these elements contributed to form human
communities. It is to these private customs that Folks owe their
present characters."(23)
HIS SUPPORT FOR THE ISLAMIC CAUSE
 Hitler
was on the friendliest of terms with several distinguished
Muslims, like
Haj Amin
al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Al-Quds, and the exiled
Iraqi prime minister Rashid Ali
al-Gailani(24). He was greatly admired throughout the
Islamic world and received numerous telegrams of support from
all sectors of society. Even before he came to power, many great
Muslims like Shaykh Hasan al-Banna, founder of the Ikhwan al-Muslimeen
(Muslim Brotherhood), sent him letters of support.
He pursued a bold policy of supporting Muslim liberation
movements, after the hostile British intentions became apparent.
These include the Arab revolt in Palestine (1936-39) and the
Iraqi independence rebellion (1941). He opened up or improved
diplomatic and other relations with Islamic countries already
independent.
The world is now witness to the utter hypocrisy and imperial
hubris of the US government, which sets itself and its allies
(such as Israel) to a different standard than others, who are
subject to laws from which the United States and Israel have
made themselves exempt. In his Reichstag speech of 28 April
1939, Hitler gave a hard-hitting indictment of Roosevelt's and
Churchill's hypocrisy on the issue of Palestine and other
subjugated countries:
"As for the fact, however, that one nation in Africa is alleged
have lost its freedom – that too is but an error; for it is not
a question of one nation in Africa having lost its freedom – on
the contrary practically all the previous inhabitants of this
continent have been made subject to the sovereignty of other
nations by bloody force, thereby losing their freedom.
Moroccans, Berbers, Arabs, Negroes, have all fallen victim to a
foreign might, the swords of which, however, were not inscribed
'Made in Germany', but 'Made by the Democracies'.(25)
"The fact has obviously escaped Mr. Roosevelt's notice that
Palestine is at present occupied not by German troops but by the
English; and that the country is having its liberty restricted
by the most brutal resort to force, is being robbed of its
independence and is suffering the cruelest maltreatment for the
benefit of Jewish interlopers.
"The Arabs living in that country will therefore certainly not
have complained to Mr. Roosevelt of German aggression, but they
do voice a continuous appeal to the world, deploring the
barbarous methods with which England is attempting to suppress a
people which loves its freedom and is but defending it."(26)
What a visionary! He anticipated the great colonial uprisings
which would lead to the independence of dozens of countries. Due
to his concern over their ambitions in Palestine, we can
consider him one of the first anti-Zionist activists in Europe!
Little wonder, then, that he is seen in a very different light
in Arab and Islamic countries. Little wonder that his armies
were greeted as liberators in Muslim areas, such as Egypt or the
Caucasus. Neither would it be any surprise to know thousands of
Muslims - Arabs, Albanians, Bosnians, Chechens, Tartars, etc. -
rallied to his cause by donning the uniforms of the Wehrmacht or
Waffen-SS.
Contrary to all the misinformation which dominates the entire
discourse on this issue, it was the course of the war and a
growing sense of reality which provided Hitler with a keen
understanding of world events and respect for other cultures.
Ahmed Huber, a Swiss Muslim with a long background in political
activism, quoted Hitler:
"After the final war the swastika will rule over Europe and will
represent a new Europe. We will help the Muslims in North Africa
and the Middle East to reestablish the Caliphate.' That means
there would be an Islamic civilization."(27)
Towards his last days, Hitler had more time to contemplate a
number of things. He spoke increasingly about his past mistakes
and envisioned what would await the future. It was here he
expressed a number of sentiments we Muslims can truly
appreciate. Whereas he had long sought an alliance with England
and Italy, the war increased his hostility to the outdated and
oppressive spirit of imperialism. We consult his Testament, as
mentioned in the notes taken by Party leader Martin Bormann(28):
"At the same time they would have had to renounce their
pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would
have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship
towards Islam." (4 February 1945)
"The laws of nature follow a logic which does not necessarily
always conform to our own ideas of logic. We ourselves were
disposed to compromise. We were ready to throw our forces into
the scales for the preservation of the British Empire; and all
that, mark you, at a time when, to tell the truth, I feel much
more sympathetically inclined to the lowliest Hindu than to any
of these arrogant islanders. Later on, the Germans will be
pleased that they did not make any contribution to the survival
of an out-dated state of affairs for which the world of the
future would have found it hard to forgive them." (4 February
1945)
"What we want, is a Monroe doctrine in Europe. 'Europe for the
Europeans!' a doctrine, the corollary of which should be that
Europeans refrain from meddling in the affairs of other
continents." (7 February 1945)
"Never, at any price, should we have put our money on France and
against the peoples subjected to her yoke. On the contrary, we
should have helped them to achieve their liberty and, if
necessary, should have goaded them into doing so. There was
nothing to stop us in 1940 from making a gesture of this sort in
the Near East and in North Africa....Our 'gentlemen' obviously
preferred to maintain cordial relations with distinguished
Frenchmen, rather than with a lot of hirsute revolutionaries,
with a chorus of musical comedy officers, whose one idea was to
cheat us, rather than with the Arabs, who would have been loyal
partners for us." (14 February 1945)
 "Our
Italian ally has been a source of embarrassment to us
everywhere. It was this alliance, for instance, which prevented
us from pursuing a revolutionary policy in North Africa. In the
nature of things, this territory was becoming an Italian
preserve and it was as such that the Duce laid claim to it. Had
we been on our own, we could have emancipated the Moslem
countries dominated by France; and that would have had enormous
repercussions in the Near East, dominated by Britain, and in
Egypt. But with our fortunes linked to those of the Italians,
the pursuit of such a policy was not possible. All Islam
vibrated at the news of our victories. The Egyptians, the Iraqis
and the whole of the Near East were all ready to rise in revolt.
Just think that we could have done to help them, even to incite
them, as would have been both our duty and in our own interest!
But the presence of the Italians at our side paralysed us; it
created a feeling of malaise among our Islamic friends, who
inevitably saw in us accomplices, willing or unwilling, of their
oppressors. For the Italians in these parts of the world are
more bitterly hated, of course, than either the British or the
French. The memories of the barbarous reprisals taken against
the Senussi are still vivid. Then again the ridiculous
pretensions of the Duce to be regarded as The Sword of Islam
evokes the same sneering chuckle now as it did before the war.
This title, which is fitting for Muhammad and a great conqueror
like Omar, Mussolini caused to be conferred on himself by a few
wretched brutes whom he had either bribed or terrorized into
doing so. We had a great chance of pursuing a splendid policy
with regard to Islam. But we missed the bus, as we missed it on
several other occasions, thanks to our loyalty to the Italian
alliance!
"In this theatre of operations, then, the Italians prevented us
from playing our best card, the emancipation of the French
subjects and the raising of the standard of revolt in the
countries oppressed by the British. Such a policy would have
aroused the enthusiasm of the whole of Islam. It is a
characteristic of the Moslem world, from the shores of the
Atlantic to those of the Pacific, that what affects one, for
good or for evil, affects all....Further, this futile policy has
allowed these hypocrites, the British, to pose, if you please,
as liberators in Syria, in Cyrenaica and in Tripolitania!" (17
February 1945)
"While, therefore, it is not possible to adhere to rigid
principles in dealing with foreign countries and one must always
be prepared to adapt one's policy to the changing conditions, it
can nevertheless be asserted with confidence that Germany will
always recruit her staunchest friends from among those peoples
who are actively resistant to Jewish contagion. I am sure that
the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of Islam will always
be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact
that we are related by blood." (2 April 1945)
Far more interesting are his comments made in earlier years,
when victory seemed within his grasp and he expressed a
remarkable vision of a new order. In an interview with an
American academic, Ahmed Huber recounted a conversation he had
with Mohammad Amin al-Husseini, who told him of a meeting with
Hitler:
"The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, whom I met
in 1965 in Beirut, we had a long talk. He told me many, many 
interesting things, because he had an almost friendship
relationship with Adolf Hitler. He told me a fantastic story. On
one night in December 1941, after the big victories of Germany
over the Soviet Union, he had a long talk with Hitler about
architecture, culture, the music of Richard Wagner, and so on.
"Hitler started talking about race theory and anti-Semitism and
the Grand Mufti asked Hitler, 'Did you ever think, Mr.
Chancellor, that your race theory comes out of Judaism? It comes
out of the Old Testament.' And Hitler was very astonished by
that. The Grand Mufti knew the Bible very well.
"He said, 'All of your ideas, the doctrine of the Nazi Party are
in the Old Testament. The chosen people of God are not the
chosen people, but the chosen race and that blood carries the
soul. And this chosen race must keep its blood pure. It must not
mix its blood with non-Jews, the foreigners, the subhuman beasts
called the goyim, are inferior to the Jewish master race. The
genocide order of God in the fifth book of Moses and in the book
of Joshua. The race laws of Ezra and Ishmael. All of these
things are in the Old Testament.'
"Hitler was absolutely astonished, and the Mufti told him
[further], 'You have not high esteem for the Africans, for Black
people. And also this comes from the Old Testament in the first
book of Moses, the Black race is doomed, considered by God to
eternal slavery. It's the famous curse by God on Ham, one of the
three sons of the Prophet Noah.'
"So when the Mufti told Hitler another story, he said, 'You, Mr.
Chancellor, hate the Roman Catholic Church,' [to which] Hitler
responded, 'Really?' [The Mufti replied], 'Yes it's true, but
you, Mr. Hitler, you never left the church. You are still
formally a member of the Roman Catholic Church.' Then the Mufti
added, 'Mr. Chancellor, you have organized your party like the
Roman Catholic Church. You are the pope. Your Gauleiters and
Reichsleiters are the cardinals and the archbishops. And your
party congresses are [like] high masses - religious ceremonies -
which you celebrate as the high priest.'
"Hitler became furious and walked out. And for three weeks the
Mufti had to go to the Reichschancellary in Berlin, and he told
me, 'There I thought he would arrest me and shout at me.' Hitler
came and smiled at the Mufti, put his hands around his arms, and
said, 'Your eminence, I want to apologize to you. I behaved like
an uneducated little boy.'
"He said, 'I have read the Bible and thought about what you said
and now that final victory is close, Moscow will fall in a few
weeks, and the Soviet Union will be gone, and then final victory
will come. We must talk about all these things and try to make
some changes in our ideology.' And, of course, final victory
never came, but Hitler dedicated a text to Christoph Schroeder
and Frau Junge, his secretary, which is called the
Hitler-Bormann Documents, or the Testament of Adolf Hitler. In
this text, Hitler makes a criticism of his policies."(29)
NOTES:
(1) In the sense of historical and social importance, Hitler is
unrivalled by any other European leaders or public figures.
There is much room for revision in this regard, that is distinct
from the forced legacy of the grossly-exaggerated Holocaust,
which arrives at an honest portrayal of Hitler without
apologizing for his real mistaken policies.
(2) The Testament of Adolf Hitler, ed. François Genoud,
London: 1959, 7th February 1945.
(3) Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, trans. James Murphy,
London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., 1939, p. 152.
(4) ibid., p. 197.
(5) Despite his fanatical anti-Slavism, Hitler came to respect
the Russians for "the stoicism with which they had accepted
their early defeats", and their "extremely healthy lives." For
theses reasons, the Russians and other peoples of the steppes
were "better equipped for development and in the long run
biologically superior to the Germans." Cf. Albert Speer,
Inside the Third Reich, New York: Macmillan, 1970, pp. 96,
306.
(6) Edgar Alexander, Der Mythus Hitler, 1937; cited in
Walter Laqueur, Fascism: Past, Present, Future, Oxford
University Press, 1997.
(7) Karl Barth, Church and the Political Problem of Our Day,
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1939, p. 43.
(8) Quoted in Ernst Nolte, Three Faces Of Fascism, New
York: Mentor Books, 1969, pp. 114, 592 n80.
(9) R.G. Collingwood, The New Leviathan or Man, Society,
Civilization and Barbarism, New York: Apollo Editions,
1971, pp. 351-387.
(10) Stoyan Pribichevich, World Without End: The Saga of
Southeastern Europe, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939,
pp. 83, 374-375, 381.
(11) By Talmudic spirit, I don't refer to all Jews but merely
the attitude of the majority. And this "spirit" is not confined
to Jews, but countless Gentiles have expressed it as well. It
essentially holds to the worldview of the Talmud, which is very
materialistic in its nature and direction.
(12) Hitler, op. cit., pp. 173-174.
(13) ibid., p. 181.
(14) ibid., p. 174.
(15) Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944, trans. N. Cameron
and R.H. Stevens, New York: Enigma Books, 1953, p. 606.
(16) ibid., p. 393.
(17) Jean and Michel Angebert, The Occult and the Third
Reich, New York: Macmillan, 1974, p. 246.
(18) Quoted by Ahmed Huber, in Kevin Coogan, "The mysterious
Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and Ibn Ladin?,"
HITLIST (Berkeley, CA), April/June 2002.
(19) Speer, op. cit., p. 96.
(20) Rather, Islam spread due to its simple creed and sincere
arguments. Jihad by the sword was always directed against the
tyrants and oppressors, aimed at stopping injustice and removing
all obstacles to the da'wah.
(21) Hitler's Table Talk, p. 143.
(22) Adolf Hitler's Monologe im Führerhauptquartier (Monologue
with Headquarters of the Führer). Hamburg: Albrecht Knaus,
1980.
(23) Hitler's Table Talk, 14 October 1941.
(24) Both Husseini and Gailani were of noble lineage: The direct
descendants of the Prophet's grandson Hussein ibn Ali, and the
medieval Islamic scholar Shaykh Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani,
respectively.
(27) Coogan, op. cit.
(28) The Testament of Adolf Hitler, op. cit.
(29) George Michael, The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming
Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right,
Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2006
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Hitler's Soviet Muslim
Legions
November 2, 1943 Himmler's telegram to Mufti:
"To the Grand Mufti: The National Socialist
movement of Greater Germany has, since its
inception, inscribed upon its flag the fight
against the world Jewry. It has therefore
followed with particular sympathy the struggle
of freedom-loving Arabs, especially in
Palestine, against Jewish interlopers. In the
recognition of this enemy and of the common
struggle against it lies the firm foundation of
the natural alliance that exists between the
National Socialist Greater Germany and the
freedom-loving Muslims of the whole world. In
this spirit I am sending you on the anniversary
of the infamous Balfour declaration my hearty
greetings and wishes for the successful pursuit
of your struggle until the final victory.
Signed: Reichsfuehrer S.S. Heinrich Himmler"
Rashid Ali al-Kaylani
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Rashid Ali) Rashid Ali al-Kaylani (Arabic:
رشيد عالي الكيلاني)
also spelled Sayyad Rashid Ali al-Gillani,
son of Sayyad Abdul Wahhab al-Gillani (1892–1965)
served as
prime minister of
Iraq on three occasions:
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March 20,
1933 –
October 29,
1933
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March 31,
1940 –
January 31,
1941
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April 3,
1941 –
May 29,
1941
He is chiefly remembered for his efforts to
bring Iraq into the Axis sphere of influence
during
World War II.
Born to a prominent
Baghdad family, he was related to Iraq's
first prime minister,
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Kayyali, though the two
parts of the family were estranged. Rashid Ali
al-Gillani began his career in politics in 1924
in the first government led by
Yasin al-Hashimi, who appointed him Minister
of Justice. The two men were ardent
nationalists, opposed to any
British involvement in the country's
internal politics. They rejected the
Anglo-Iraqi Treaty signed by
Nuri as-Said's government in
1930 and formed their own
Party of National Brotherhood to promote
nationalist aims. He served as prime minister
for the first time in 1933.
During the 1930s, Gillani was strongly
influenced by the Mufti of
Jerusalem,
Haj Amin al-Husseini, who had been exiled
from the
British Mandate of Palestine for his
nationalist activities and found support in his
campaign against
Jewish immigration to the country with the
Nazi regime in
Germany.
When Gillani was again appointed prime
minister in
1940, Iraq had just experienced the
premature death of King
Ghazi and a weakened regency for the new
four-year-old King
Faisal II of Iraq under his uncle, Emir
Abdul-Illah. While Abdul-Illah supported
Britain in the war, he was unable to control
Gillani, who used the war to further his own
nationalist goals by refusing to allow troops to
cross through Iraq to the front. He also
rejected calls that Iraq break its ties with
Italy and sent his Justice Minister,
Naji Shawkat, to meet with the then German
ambassador to
Turkey,
Franz von Papen, to win German support for
his government. At a later meeting, in which the
Mufti's private secretary acted as the
representative for the Iraqi government, Gillani
assured Germany that his country's natural
resources would be made available to the Axis in
return for German recognition of the
Arab states' right to independence and
political unity, as well as the right to "deal
with" the
Jews living in Arab lands. Gillani, in his
third and final term as prime minister, presided
over the two months of mob action against Iraqi
Jews that would later lead to the
Farhud, the mass anti-Jewish riot in June
1941 that sparked the exodus of Iraq's Jewish
community.
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Britain responded with severe economic
sanctions against Iraq. Meanwhile, news of
British victories against
Italian forces in
North Africa dulled support for Gillani's
government, and on
January 31,
1941, under pressure from the regent, he
resigned his post as prime minister. This only
exacerbated his mistrust of Britain and its
supporters in the government, and together with
some of his pro-Axis colleagues, Gillani made
plans to assassinate Abdul-Illah and seize
power. Abdul Illah fled the country on
March 31, and on
April 3, Gillani returned to power. As one
of his first acts, he sent an Iraqi
artillery force to confront the
RAF base situated in
Habbaniya. Meanwhile other British forces
landed at
Basra initiating the
Anglo-Iraqi War.
Iraq had been a major supplier of
petroleum to the Allied war effort and an
important landbridge between British forces in
Egypt and
India. To secure Iraq,
Winston Churchill ordered General
Archibald Wavell to protect the Habaniya
base, (which had not only refused to accept the
Iraqi demands for the cessation of its training
activities, but in response to other Iraqi
provocations had struck first and relieved the
siege) and to head from there to Baghdad.
Fearing a British onslaught, Gillani fled to
Berlin and a new government was installed. In
Berlin he was received by Hitler and recognized
as the Iraqi government in exile. Upon Germany's
defeat, Gillani found refuge in Saudi Arabia.
Gillani only returned from exile after the
revolution that overthrew the Iraqi monarchy in
1958. Once again he attempted to seize
power, and plotted a revolt against
Abdul Karim Kassem's government. The revolt
was foiled and Gillani was sentenced to death.
Later pardoned, he returned to exile, where he
died in 1965.
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Hitler's Soviet Muslim Legions
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During World War II,
hundreds of thousands of foreign peoples joined
with Hitler's legions to bring theirs people
into special status in Hitler's New Order. Tens
of thousands among them were Muslims, where the
majority of them came from Soviet Union. Under
the banner of the crescent and the swastika,
these Soviet Muslims believe to become holy
warriors to liberated theirs land. But the end
of this unholy alliance was a disaster for them.
The Pro-Nazi Soviet Muslims
When the German Army invaded Soviet
Russia on June 22, 1941 they saw many of their opponent
inhabitants welcomed them as liberators. One of the group of
Soviet citizens that felt had reason to rejoiced the coming
of the Teutonic legion invaders were Soviet Muslims.
Many of Soviet Muslims hates domination
of Russians upon them. They still remembered theirs golden
age under the Muslim khans, emirs, and sultans before they
fall into Russian Czardom between 17th and 19th centuries.
Actually, when the Czardom liquidated during Bolshevik
Revolution, the Muslim Soviet got a chances to liberated
themselves from theirs Russian masters and formed some
independent states with help from theirs Turkish brothers
and her German allied. Even for a while they thought to
build a Greater Turkey Sultanate like Pan-Turanian longing.
In Caucasus, an all-Islam army,
composed of Azeris, Ajars, and other Caucasian Muslims,
assist the Turkish army under Nuri Pasha, who was known for
his Pan-Turanian ideas. They besieged many non-Muslims towns
in Caucasus that refused surrender to them and starved it
into submissions. Some of them implicated with the massacres
of Armenians.
The same thing developed in Central
Asia. In Kokand, a free government of Turkestan was
proclaimed, while the emirs of Khiva and Bukhara asserted
their independence. The Turkish-Tartar peoples in Crimea and
Volga also arise against the Russians.
Unfortunately, after succeeded
consolidated their power in Russia, the Bolshevist
penetrated these areas. One by one centers of Muslim
resistance to communism fell. The attempt to free these
Muslim areas from Russian rule had failed, and the Soviet
government succeeded in reestablishing its authority over
the whole Caucasus and Turkestan. But the native peoples
rejected this Russian-Communist authority. Some of them rise
against the Moscow rule when the communist forced
collectivized farms and atheistic attitudes upon them. One
of the uprisings erupted in Chechnya, where the Cechens
under an ex-communist named Hasan Israilov rise against the
Soviet regime.
The unrest of these Muslim peoples
didn't escape from Hitler intention. When many of Muslim
Soviet POWs enthusiastic wished to join with the victorious
Wehrmacht against theirs ruler, theirs aspirations get a
green light from the German dictator. On December, 1941 a
top secret memorandum ordered that the OKW was to create two
Muslim units: the Turkestanisch Legion, consisted
Muslim volunteers from Central Asia, like Turkomans, Uzbeks,
Kazakhs, Kirghizs, Karakalpaks, and Tadjiks; and
Kaukasisch-Mohammedan Legion from Caucasian Muslims
volunteers, like Azeris, Daghestans, Chechens, Ingushes, and
Lezghins. Beside a separated unit consisted Muslim Tartars,
Wolgatatarische Legion, was formed in Poland on
January 1942.
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Tartars read a German recruitment
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The German courting of the Soviet
Muslims was part of Hitler's lunatic schemes for bringing
Turkey into his side and for advancing to control the oil
fields in Middle East and Baku. The Soviet Muslims fighting
units were supposed to take part in bringing the whole
Middle East into the German orbit. As Hitler said in
December 1942, "I consider only the Muslims to be
reliable...I see no danger in the establishment of
purely Muslim units." As propaganda tools the Nazis attempt
to revive and encourage Pan-Turanian tendency in Turkey and
within Soviet Muslims population.
The Nazi's Muslim Project
When the German army marches into Caucasus, they bring with
them theirs Muslim supporters to fire rebellions within
Soviet Muslim peoples. That move made a great-worried within
Soviet leadership. As Konstantin Oumansky, Soviet ambassador
in Washington, said on one of the blackest days of the Black
Summer of 1942:
"I must said that I am a little worried about the
Caucasus...The Tartars in the Crimea are, to a large extent,
disloyal... they never liked us. It is well known that
during the Crimean War they gladly 'collaborated', as we'd
now say, with the English and the French. And, above all,
there are religious factors, which the Germans have not
failed to exploit. Nor do I trust the mountain peoples of
the Caucasus. Like the Crimean Tartars, they are Muslims,
and they still remember the Russian conquest of the Caucasus
which ended not so very long ago - 1863."
The Soviet authorities were, indeed, rather worried about
the Caucasus Muslim nationalists there. The uneasiness
extended, to some extent, also to certain Muslim nations of
Central Asia, particularly the Uzbeks, among whom Muslim
traditions were still strong.
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Muslim people in North Caucasus
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The German did make contact with some of the Muslim
nationalities in the Northern Caucasus. Toward the
predominantly Muslim mountaineers of the Northern Caucasus -
the Chechens, Ingushi, Karachai, and Balkarians - the German
army adopted a 'liberal' policy. Promises were made for the
abolition of the kolkhozes; mosques were to be
reopened; requisitioned goods were to be paid for; and the
confidence of the people was to be won by 'model conduct',
especially in respect of women. Beside the local national
committees got permission to be formed to help Germany Army
in organize administration and law and order.
In Karachai region a 'Karachai National Committee' was set
up under an anti-Soviet named Kaki Baieramukov. The high
point of German-Karachai collaboration was the celebration
of Bairam, the Muslim holiday, in Kislovodsk in October
1942. During the celebration, German high officials were
presented with precious gifts by the local committee. Then
the German announced the formation of a Karachai volunteer
squadron of horsemen to fight with the German Army.
The same policy also applied in Kabardino-Balkhar area,
although the Muslim Balkars were more outspokenly than the
mostly non-Muslim Kabardinians. A national committee was
formed under a local leader named Selim Shadov and has
responsible to arrange the fields of religion, culture, and
economy. The collaboration reached a highest-point during
the Kurman ceremonies that held at Nalchik, the seat of the
local administration of the Kabardino-Balkar area, on
December 18. Again gifts were exchanged, with the local
officials giving the Germans magnificent steeds and
receiving in return Korans and captured weapons. An official
from Reich Eastern Ministry named Braeutigam made a public
address about lasting bonds of German friendship with the
peoples of the Caucasus.
These pro-Muslim policies in Crimea and Caucasus gave
Germany a trump card of major importance in her relations
with Turkey. The Reich Foreign Ministry invited some Turks
to aid in the administration as expert advisers. Germany
showed a disposition to negotiate with Turkey about the
future status of the areas in question. By conceding to
Turkey the right to organize the liberated Turko-Tartar
areas of the Soviet Union into a federation, German
ambassador in Ankara, von Papen, and an influential group in
the German Foreign Office hoped to secure Turkish
collaboration during the war.
Actually, these inducements profoundly impressed Turkish
Pan-Turanians and attracted the attention of some military
leaders, including Marshal Cakmak. Unfortunately, the
disaster in Stalingrad destroyed the German plan. The Turks
changed theirs mind and continued embracing their neutral
position while the German army retreat as quickly as
possible from Caucasus to prevent another Stalingrad. Many
Muslims collaborators followed them. The grandiose scheme
for the conquest of the Middle East with the help of Soviet
Muslims was off.
Nazi Muslim Legions at War
Although Hitler's ambitious plan for Soviet Muslims
political role failed after the Stalingrad debacle, he still
had tens of thousands of them to assist him militarily. The
most numerous of the Soviet Muslims that served the Germans
were the Turkestanis. First Turkestanis volunteers were
integrated as one battalion of the 444.Sicherungs
Division in November 1941 and became auxiliary to help
the Germans to fight the partisan.
According Hitler's secret order on December 1941, a
formation named Turkestanisch Legion was formed to
command the Turkestanis volunteers. But it must be explained
that name of a 'legion' in German's Eastern Legions was not
synonym with a tactical formation. In fact, it only a
training center where national units. mostly battalions,
were organized and trained. During the war, 70,000
Turkestanis volunteers served within the German forces:
40,000 soldiers and 30.000 military workers. In 1943, the
Turkestanis had 15 battalions and one year later grew-up to
26 battalions. Those battalions mainly were integrated as
independent battalions within German divisions.
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Soviet Muslim soldiers in German
service pray in front of a grave. |
But there was also a full division of the Turkestanis
volunteers: the 162.Turkestanisch Infanterie Division.
Composed of Germans, Turkomans, and Azeris, the division
commanded by General Oskar von Niedermayer, a self-stylish
German's Lawrence of Arabia and a former military attaché in
Persia. The division trained at Kruszyna in Poland and was
transferred to Yugoslavia to fought Tito's partisan. Then
they were moved to Italy in 1943, where at a moment fought
an American-Japanese regiment. According its commander, it
was as good as a normal German division.
Crimean Tartar was not only gladly collaborating with the
Germans, but was also supplying the Wehrmacht with 20,000
soldiers. These descendants of Mongols especially infamous
during anti-partisan operations. In July-August 1943, Yalta
mayor V.I. Maltzev formed a Tartars punitive battalion in
Yevpatoria. Known as 'Khimi', the battalion fought the
partisan in Yaila Mountains, where they burned several
partisan bases and killed many civilians.
Impressed with theirs action, the Germans later transferred
the battalion to northwestern France to fought the French
maquis. Once again, their atrocious behaviors become well
known so that feed fears to French civilians. An example of
theirs cruelty occurred in Dortan in Ain on July 21, 1944
where the Tartars soldiers punished the village because its
hospitality to the Maquis. According the reports of
eyewitnesses, they raped women that fall into theirs hand
collectively, burned the village, and laugh wild while
playing in the front of the flames with children bicycles.
The Germans tried hard to court these Muslim volunteers. One
of Nazi officials gave a report about the perfect condition
of Turkestanisch Legion camp. The commander of the
legion himself has learned the Turkestan language, and the
Turkestanis have accepted German military terms and have an
anti-Bolshevist attitude. The legions of the Muslim
Caucasians and Tartars have modeled on similar lines.
To raise morale of the Soviet Muslim volunteers, the Germans
also issued some publications for them, like Gazavat
(Holy War), Svoboda. Ezenedel'naja gazeta legionerov
(Freedom. Weekly Newspaper for the Legionnaires), Milli
Turkistan (The National Turkestan), Yeni Turkistan
(The New Turkestan), Milli Adabijat (National
Literature), Idel-Ural (Volga-Ural), Tatar
Adabijat (Tartar Literature), and Azerbaican
(Azerbaijan). These newspapers and magazine were edited by
local journalists and only loosely controlled by the Germans
from the Eastern Ministry and Wehrmacht's propaganda
division.
The Soviet Muslims performance in the front lines itself
different in one front to others. On Western Front, many of
them disappointed theirs German master: like many of theirs
Eastern colleague, Soviet Muslim volunteers didn't show any
eagerness to fight the Western Allied. In contrast, in
Eastern Front they show the tenacious fighting qualities. As
an example, three Turkic battalions had fought to the last
man at Stalingrad. The other saw how a Turkic battalion that
had broken out of a pocket near Kharkov, reentered it again
just to recover the body of their beloved German commander.
But, whatever their performance, the existence the Soviet
Muslims in the rank of the German army got attention of the
second most powerful man in the Third Reich, Heinrich
Himmler. The Reichsführer SS decided to recruited them into
his private army, the Waffen-SS.
Soviet Muslims in the Himmler's Black Legion
Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler was known as Islam most
willing promoter and collaborator among the Nazi leadership.
Himmler's hatred the 'soft' Christianity was equal for his
liking for Islam, which he saw as a masculine, martial
religion based on the SS qualities of blind obedience and
readiness for self-sacrifice, untainted by compassion for
one's enemies. His admiration for Islam made him ready to
throw-out his racial 'Aryan pure' fantasies to receive more
Muslim volunteers for his sinister legion.
When the mass of Soviet Muslims collaborators followed the
retreating German armies to avoid the reprisals that awaited
them from the Russians, Himmler would probably not have
objected to procuring them for the Waffen SS. He had decided
that it was only the Slav and the Jews in the Russian stock
who were sub-humans. There was a superior element in the
Russian nation which come from Asia and which had produced
Attila, Jenghiz Khan, Tamerlane, Lenin, and Stalin. The
Soviet Muslims themselves were suited with these criteria.
Many of them came from Caucasus (just like Stalin origin) or
descendants and relatives of the Mongols (like Tartar and
Turkestan peoples).
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Azerbaidjan SS platoon in Warsaw
during the Uprising. |
In November 1943, a certain Heer
major name Andreas Meyer-Mader meet Himmler to offering
his service to help raise and command a Turkic SS unit.
Himmler approved the major plan and then transfers him into
the ranks of the Waffen SS and promoted him to the rank of
SS-Obersturmbannführer. On 14 December, another meeting was
held in Berlin in present of the Grand Mufti of the
Jerusalem, Hajj Amin el-Husseini. The Grand Mufti approved
the plan to raise a Turkic-Muslim SS division and give his
"spiritual leadership" to influence the Muslim volunteers.
Osttürkischen
Waffen-Verbände
der SS was
formed on January 1944 as 1.Ostmuslemanische SS-Regiment.
(Actually, the Reichsführer SS plans to expand it into a
division, Muselmanischen SS-Division Neu-Turkestan,
but the plan never realized.) This new formation formed form
the Turkic units in the Heer that was disbanded,
i.e., 450th, 480th, and I/94 Turkic battalions, plus some
new recruits from German POW camps. The recruits not only
Turkestanis, but also Azeris, Kirghiz, Uzbek, and Tadjiks
volunteers. The unit was formed in Trawniki, Poland, before
they were transferred to Belorussia for further training.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Andreas Meyer-Mader was appointed as
its first commander.
Unfortunately, this unit suffered from poor discipline and
poor morale, especially after theirs beloved commander,
Meyer-Mader, killed during a skirmish with partisans in
Yuratishki, near Minsk, on March 28, 1944. The situation
became worse when the replacement commander, SS-Hauptsturmführer
Billig executes 78 unit members for insubordination. This
incident made Himmler angry and Billig relieved.
On July 1944, the unit transferred back to Poland. When the
SS tried to quell the Warsaw Uprising, the unit attached to
the notoriously SS Dirlewanger Brigade, where they were
participated in brutal actions that killed 200,000 Polish
civilians.
Himmler decision to appointed SS-Standartenführer
Harun-el-Raschid-Bey, an Austrian officer who converts to
Islam, didn't made many good progression within the
formation. In contrary, during his leadership the morals of
the Turkestanis drop until a low ebb. Even a mutiny broke-up
when on Christmas Eve 1944, 450 members of the 1st
Battalion, led by Waffen-Obersturmführer Gulam Alimov and
Waffen-Untersturmführer Asatpalvan, killed some NCOs and
went over to the partisans. Himmler's reaction was fired
Harun-el-Raschid-Bey and reorganized the formation, where
the Azerbaijan contingents in the formation transferred to
the Kaukasicher Waffen-Verbande der-SS .
Meanwhile, another Soviet Muslim SS formation came into
being during the summer of 1944, when all of the Crimean
Tartar Schuma battalion were gathered together and formed
into a new unit, Waffen-Gebirgs-Brigade der-SS (Tatarische
Nr.1). But because the shorts of weapons and equipment,
the unit was disbanded on December 1944, and the men were
ordered to join with
Osttürkischen Waffen-Verbände
der SS.
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Grand Mufti of Jerusalem with
Soviet Muslim volunteers in German army in Berlin. |
In the final days of the war
Osttürkischen Waffen-Verbände der SS operated
in Slovenian-Italian borders. There were possibility that
the unit participated in some anti-partisan operations in
Slovenia, serving under HSSPF Adriatic Coast. During
April-May 1945, the unit stationed in Lombardy, Italia. They
stayed in there until the end of the war.
The
Bitter End
The disaster that fell into the Third Reich began to take a
turn for the worse and made a worse impact among the Soviet
Muslims that served within the Germans armies. When Himmler
finally tried to assembled a united front against the
Bolshevik among the Soviets dissidents under General Vlasov,
many of non-Russians voiced against it.
One of the oppositions came from Turkestani National
Committee which longing independence of Turkestan. The
committee that headed by Veli Kayum Khan, head of the
Turkestani "government in exile", had been in charge of the
political and national leadership of Turkestani volunteers.
It had successfully raised the morale of the Turkestani
volunteers by supporting independence for Turkestan and,
with the aid of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the SS-FHA,
setting up schools at Dresden and Göttingen
to train religious imams for
the Muslim military units in the Waffen SS and the Wehrmacht.
His stand were supported by some Muslim leaders form
Caucasus, like Khedia, Mischa, Kantimer, Alibegow, and
Tschamalja.
But the situation in front lines decided their fate, not the
Germans. The Allied high tides sweeps and swallow the Third
Reich. Hitler killed himself on April 30, 1945. One week
later, Germany surrenders. Like many of theirs Eastern
comrade-in-arms that supported the Nazis, Soviet Muslim
volunteers who surrender to Western Allied were shipped back
to Soviet Union, where many of them were executed or dumped
into the Gulags as traitors.
Even Stalin ordered deportations to
the east some of Soviet Muslim nationalities whose
representatives had fraternized with the Germans - like
Chechens, Balkars, Ingushi, Karachais, and Crimean Tartars.
The first four of these nationalities - or what was left of
them - were allowed to return to their homes after Stalin's
death, while the Crimea Tartars - the most notoriously
collaborator - could return
only after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Reproduced gratefully from:
http://stosstruppen39-45.tripod.com/id10.html
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