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Amin al-Husaini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, remains a
controversial figure. As an
officer in the Ottoman army during the First World War, he implemented
the German idea of organizing jihad and terror behind enemy lines. He
fiercely opposed Jewish settlement. But it is, above all, the Grand Mufti's close ties to National Socialist Germany that are the subject of ongoing debates. There is now no room for doubt that Al-Husaini knew about the Nazis' exterminationist policies toward the Jews.
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