Fact: the Mufti fled to Nazi Germany.
Fact: he met Hitler (once).
Fact: he helped to recruit Bosniak and Albanian Muslims into both SS formations and into local defence units.
Fact: there are a lot of propaganda/recruitment photos of the Mufti with Muslim troops.
Fact: He wasn't very successful as the SS units in question all had a very large proportion of non-Muslim soldiers, i.e. SS- Handschar; about 40% non-Muslim personnel.
Fact: He is attributed in several Nazi propaganda radio broadcasts, which he may or may not have actually made.
Fact: the radio broadcasts had no significant effect on the Muslims in the Middle East.
Fact: he worked hard while in Germany to prevent any Jewish migration to Palestine.
Fact: SS Handschar never operated in any areas where Jewish persecution/extermination took place.
The rest is, at best, conjecture, or more likely propaganda designed to create a link, no matter how tenuous, with Geman National Socialism and post-war Arabic National Liberation movements.
Those are the only real facts that have never been disputed. There is no evidence he was a Nazi, there is no evidence he was genocidal. Most, if not all the propaganda, comes from Zionist sources, the rest from Serbian nationalist sources. In both cases the allied prosecutors considerd such "evidence" at best inconclusive, and at worst, fabricated.
Fact: the book you cited considers him a Nazi who played an active role in the genocides that took place.
Fact: stop whining!
"Jennie Lebel's well documented study of the "Grand" Mufti of Jerusalem - he himself apparently added the "grandeur" to his official title - highlights the significant role that this Muslim religious leader played in the Holocaust. Haj-Amin el-Husseini spent most of the Second World War in Berlin in the company of his friend Adolf Hitler and Hitler's henchmen. He appears to have been more vicious than Hitler, because on more than one occasion his pleas torpedoed proposals, that Hitler had endorsed in principle, to save the lives of Jewish children by exchanging them for German citizens held by the Allied Powers. Husseini made clear that he preferred to have them sent to Poland where they would be put in the gas chambers.
The Mufti and his Arab and Muslim collaborators were thus actively involved in - not simply innocent spectators of - Jewish genocide. No surprise then that the most recently organised Holocaust denial convention to "prove" the opposite was held in Iran whose impartial leaders would be happy to rewrite history to sanitise their threat to "wipe Israel off the map" of the Middle East."
"This book is a long overdue and welcome clarification to the roots of the conflict in the Middle East. It explores and explains the origins of the current hatreds that fuel the Palestinian war against Israel. Jennie Lebels' work is well researched and interesting. It provides not only an insight into Haj Amin El Husseini, but much of the events that he and the Palestinians were involved in at the time.
The connection between the man and the Nazis is shown very clearly. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to dwell deeper into the origins of the Middle East conflict, and wants a good read."
*****Would you like to introduce us to any other books?