U.S. Confirms Role of Mufti as Nazi Middle East Leader
OFFICE OF U.S. CHIEF OF COUNSEL
FOR PROSECUTION OF AXIS CRIMINALITY No. 792-PS
17 September 1945
Source of Original OKW Files, Flensburg
[Excerpt]
LEADS: CANARIS, IBN SAUD, GRAND MUFTI.
SUMMARY OF RELEVANT POINTS (with page references):
1. Only through the funds made available by Germany to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was it possible to carry out the revolt in Palestine. (Page 1).
2. Germany will keep up the connection with the Grand Mufti. Weapons will be stored for the Mufti with Ibn Saud in Arabia. (Page 2).
3. Ibn Saud himself has close connections with the Grand Mufti and the revolting circles in TransJordan. (Page 2).
4. To be able to carry out our work one of Germany's agents will be placed in Cairo (Page 3).
5. The document is undated but obviously written before the outbreak of the war in 1939. It is not signed.
Analyst Landmann Doc. No. 792-PS
Source:The Arab Higher Committee, Its Origins, Personnel and Purposes, The Documentary Record Submitted to The United Nations, May 1947, by Nations Associates.
Except it doesn't. Setting aside for the moment this comes from a Pamela Geller blog site, there's something wrong with the scanned document. the "title" U.S. Confirms Role of Mufti as Nazi Middle East Leader seems to bear no relation to the actual document, it appears to have been typed onto the document at a different date or time, possibly by a different typewriter. The document is a rough translation from a missing German pre war document, so it's provenance is suspect, as well as the allegations.
What's even more interesting is the allegations that Nazi Germany financed the 1936 Palestinian uprising as well as supplying arms to ibn Saud, no other historian has made any similar allegations.
Nope, nothing there either. Is that it?