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By Greg Botelho, CNN
Updated 2:54 PM ET, Wed October 21, 2015
(CNN)There's no question Adolf Hitler led Nazi Germany when it implemented the "final solution" in an effort to kill all Jews.
But, in a speech this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested it wasn't Hitler's idea.
Rather, he pointed to Jerusalem's then-grand mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who met with the Nazi leader in Germany in the early 1940s.
"Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews," Netanyahu said Tuesday at the 37th Zionist Congress, according to a transcript on his website. "And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, 'If you expel them, they'll all come here.'
"'So what should I do with them?' (Hitler) asked. (Husseini) said, 'Burn them.'"
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MattP
(3,304 posts)6chars
(3,967 posts)http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/mufti2.html
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007667
We can't know exactly what was said, and which accounts are most accurate. It seems clear there were some discussions relating to the status of European Jews, whether they might immigrate to the Palestine Mandate, and if not, how could Hitler rid Europe of them. It certainly seems that al-Husseini was close with Hitler and was in general sympatico with whatever Hitler did as long as Jews were kept out of Palestine. This is already not good. The question is how much he influenced Hitler beyond that. He certainly set the tone for a lot of the Arab discourse about Jews.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Iggo
(47,586 posts)Interesting times, kids.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Who needs fiction? We got real life, much more bizarre.
Bucky
(54,087 posts)Too bad Godwin's Law doesn't rule Israel
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Germany's compulsory sterilization law was modeled after those in various states in the US.