Were the Muslim SS the most anti-semitic ?

[Owen]

Originally Posted by Gotthard Heinrici

Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini

Here is an article about the Grqand Mufti and what became of him. hope this helps Harry

Shame about this...

The Mufti was never tried because the Allies were afraid of the storm in the Arab world if the hero of Arab nationalism was treated as a war criminal.

Never knew this.

His place as leader of the radical, nationalist Palestinian Arabs was taken by his nephew Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Hussaeini, better known as Yasser Arafat.

[Kiwiwriter]

Originally Posted by Desert Dog

The Germans allowed muslims into the SS?

There were three all told. 13th SS Mountain Division Handschar, 21st SS Albanian Mountain Division Skanderberg, and the SS Croatian Kama Division. All three wore fezzes with the Nazi eagle and swastika, and the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haf Amin el-Husseini, provided them with imams for spiritual leadership.

All were raised in February 1943 to fight Tito's partisans, who were mostly Christians. However, the divisions did not perform well, and even mutinied during training. The Handschar Division saw some action against partisans, but the other two were never at divisional strength. All were disbanded by the end of 1944.

[Harry Ree]

Originally Posted by Gotthard Heinrici

Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini

Here is an article about the Grqand Mufti and what became of him. hope this helps Harry

Thanks Gott for the information,interesting that Arafat comes from the same family.

[ourbill]

http://stosstruppen39-45.tripod.com/id10.html

The above site could help with the wider picture of the SS in relation to Muslim recruits in the grand designs of the Nazi Party.

The Favourate Links on the left is worth a gander. There's a good potted history of other SS units.

[redcoat]

It should be pointed out in the interests of fairness, that the numbers of Muslims who served in the Axis forces was minuscule, compared to the numbers who served in the Soviet and British Empire forces during WW2 in the fight against the Axis.
In January 1945 the number of Muslims serving in the British Indian army alone was 447,580.

[von Poop]

Excellent point.

[T. A. Gardner]

Originally Posted by 51highland

With what the SS did, its hard to imagine anything being worse, but?

Well, there is always the Dirlewanger brigade of the SS. Nothing like emptying the prisons of murders, rapists, and various assorted scum and putting them in the military to raise your reputation to new lows.....

[von Poop]

Croatian SS recruiting poster?


and a picture of some men of one of the Fez wearing units.
Anyone know if there's a way to tell which one?

[Bodston]

Originally Posted by Von Poop

Croatian SS recruiting poster?


and a picture of some men of one of the Fez wearing units.
Anyone know if there's a way to tell which one?

Yes mate, these are Handschar as you can tell by the right collar tab. Each of the volunteer SS divisions carried a unique design on the right tab. More here at http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=4823. The 13th Handschar had an arm holding a scimitar with a swastika.

[von Poop]

Cheers Bod.
I am a fool for not peering closer at the tabs .
Just for the record, the other two formations mentioned so far's tabs.

Skanderberg:


Kama: