Paying blackmail isn't quite the same as Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem:
Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Palestinian leader, drafted a proposal during WW2 (1941), requesting that Germany and Italy acknowledge the Arab right to settle the question of the Jewish elements in Palestine, and other Arab countries, in accordance with national and racial interests of the Arabs, and along lines, similar to those used to solve the Jewish question in Germany and Italy." In other words, let the Nazis and Arabs kill all the Jews.
(Fritz Grobba, Peoples and Powers in the East, pp. 194-7, 207-8, Berlin, 1967; 1988).
HIS PLAN INCLUDED ESTABLISHING AN EXTERMINATION CAMP LIKE AUSHWITZ IN THE DOTAN VALLEY, NEAR JENIN.
Back in the summer of 1940 and again in February 1941, al-Hussayni submitted to the German government a draft declaration of German-Arab cooperation, containing a clause:
Germany and Italy recognize the right of the Arab countries to solve the question of the Jewish elements, which exist in Palestine and in the other Arab countries, as required by the national and ethnic (völkisch) interests of the Arabs, and as the Jewish question was solved in Germany and Italy.
Haj Amin al-Husseini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In his memoirs after the war, Husayni noted that
"Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a manner befitting our national and racial aspirations and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews. The answer I got was: 'The Jews are yours'."
The Iraq coup of Raschid Ali in 1941, the Mufti Husseini and the Farhud (Farhoud)
“'Hitler's Holocaust Plan For Jews In Palestine Stopped By Desert Rats'” (
14 April 2006)
<b><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hitlers-holocaust-plan-for-jews-in-palestine-stopped-by-desert-rats-474080.html">'Hitler's Holocaust Plan For Jews In Palestine Stopped By Desert Rats'</a>
…Klaus-Michael Mallmann of the University's Ludwigsburg research team and his assistant Martin Cüppers said they had spent three years studying German wartime archives, including those at the foreign office in Berlin which had hitherto remained sealed.
…Mr Mallmann and Mr Cüppers said the Nazis had planned to exploit Arab friendship for their plans.
"The most important collaborator with the Nazis and an absolute Arab anti-Semite was Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem," they say in the book. He was a prime example of how Arabs and Nazis became friends out of a hatred of Jews.
Al-Husseini had met Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler's chief architect of the Holocaust, several times to settle details of the slaughter. In the academic work they draw on documents from the Reich Main Security Office showing "Einsatzgruppe Egypt" was standing by in Athens and was ready to disembark for Palestine in the summer of 1942…
'Hitler's holocaust plan for Jews in Palestine stopped by Desert Rats' - Europe - World - The Independent
Read a very detailed report about Husseini here:
SS leaders and Husseini both claimed that Nazism and Islam had common values as well as common enemies—above all, the Jews.
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf
In fall 1943, it says, Husseini went to the Croatia, a German ally, to recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS.
“During that trip he told the troops of the newly formed Bosnian-Muslim 13th Mountain Waffen-SS division that the entire Muslim world ought to follow their example,” the report states.
Husseini also organized a 1944 mission in which Palestine Arabs and Germans would carry out sabotage and propaganda after German planes dropped them into Palestine by parachute.
“Husseini insisted that the Arabs take command after they landed and direct their fight against the Jews of Palestine, not the British authorities,” according to the report.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=199451