From Who was Who in World War II, John Keegan, Ed.,
Bison Books, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1984, p. 116.
Husseini, Amin el (Grand Mufti of Jerusalem), 1900-
Husseini was an active opponent of the formation of a Jewish state
in Palestine and fomented the Arab revolt of 1936 in Palestine. In
October 1939 the Mufti visited Iraq which, under Nuri el-Said, was
pro-British. Pressure from the Mufti and support from within Iraq from
Arab freedom fighters helped to bring down the pro-British government
replacing it with the pro-German government of Rashid Ali (1 April
1941). The new government was short-lived; the succesful British
invasion of Iraq, 2 May 1941, forced Husseini into exile in Germany.
He spent the rest of the war working for the Axis and introduced units
of Moslems into the ranks of the German Army. In 1945 he was placed
under house arrest in France but escaped to Cairo in May 1946.
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