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The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust
The Farhud Roots of the ArabNazi Alliance in the Holocaust Author:Edwin Black The Nazis needed oil. The Arabs wanted the Jews and British out of Iraq. The Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Hitler resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the devastation and expulsion of the Iraqi Jews and ultimately almost a million Jews across the Arab world. The Farhud w... more »as the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance in the Holocaust.« less