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First of all. The main link to Islamic world for Nazis was the Palestine Arab leader Haj Amin. second. There were quite a few of the Arab Nazi Parties. Palestine Arab in particular.
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SOME OF ISLAMO-NAZI ORGANIZATIONS DURING WW2
There were a number of strong pre-war Arab-Nazi organizations
* the Iron Shirts (led by Fakhri al-Barudi of the National Bloc).
* The League for National Action (headed by Abdu al-Huda al-Yab, Dr. Zaki al-Jabi and others).
* The An-Nadi al-Arabi Club of Damascus (headed by Dr. Said Abd Al-Fattah al-Imam).
* The Councils for the Defense of Arab Palestine (head by well known pro-Nazi leaders, such as Nabi al-Azmah, Adil Arslan and others)
* The Syrian People's Party.
* The Istiqlal.
* The Muthana Club.
* Moslem Guidance Society.
* The Palestine Defense Society.
* The Tajaddad Club.
* The Arab Rover Society.
* Arab High Committee (Haj Amin el Husseini's).
* Najjada [Najjadah] in Lebanon (pan-Islamic, pan-Arab, with its motto: "Arabism Above All").
* The Futuwwah in Iraq (Hitler-youth type).
* The Blue Shirts and Green Shirts in Egypt.
* League of National Action.
* The Lion Cubs of Arabism.
* The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (led by Antun Sa'ada with Nazi imitated symbols and hymm of 'Syria, Syria Uber alles).
* The Arab Club. The Steel Shirts.
* The early Ba'ath movement.
* The Kalmuks. The Chechens.
* The Ingosh. Balkans.
* The Meshkets.
* The Krim Tatars
* The White Shirts (in Lebanon).
Notes:
"The Arab war effort: a documented account ," American Christian Palestine Committee, 1946, p. 7
I. Gershoni, James P. Jankowski: "Confronting fascism in Egypt: dictatorship versus democracy in the 1930s," (Stanford University Press, Oct 21, 2009, 360 pp) p. 274
Frank Tachau: "Political parties of the Middle East and North Africa," (Greenwood Press, 1994), p. 361
Elizabeth Thompson: "Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon," (Columbia University Press, 2000) p. 193
