Amin al-Husayni's Wartime Alliances

Amin al-Husayni

Amin al-Husayni, born in Jerusalem around 1895, was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the principal political leader of Palestinian Arabs during the Mandate era. As head of the Supreme Muslim Council and later the Arab High Committee, he directed opposition against Zionist immigration and British rule, leading the 1936 Great Arab Revolt before being forced into exile. During World War II, al-Husayni aligned himself with the Axis powers, traveling to Berlin to meet Adolf Hitler. He broadcast anti-British and anti-Semitic propaganda across the Arab world and assisted in recruiting Balkan Muslims for the Waffen-SS, attempting to block Jewish migration and secure Axis backing for Arab independence.

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Year	Amin al-Husayni
1895	Birth of Amin al-Husayni (Period: 1895 (with alternate theories dating around 1893–1897), Location: Jerusalem (present-day Palestine/Israel region))
1914	World War I (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions (Gallipoli, Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Sinai, Palestine, Arabia, etc.))
1920	1920 Nebi Musa Riots (Age: 25 years old, Period: April 4–7, 1920, Location: Old City of Jerusalem and Surrounding Area)
1921	Appointment as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Amin al-Husseini, Age: 26 years old, Period: May 8, 1921, Location: Jerusalem)
1922	Appointment as President of the Supreme Muslim Council (Amin al-Husseini, Age: 27 years old, Period: January 9, 1922, Location: Jerusalem)
1936	Arab Revolt in Palestine (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1936–1939, Location: Mandatory Palestine) Appointment as Chairman of the Arab Higher Committee (Amin al-Husseini, Age: 41 years old, Period: April 1936, Location: Mandatory Palestine)
1937	Dissolution of the Arab Higher Committee and El-Husseini's Exile in 1937 (Age: 42 years old, Period: September–October 1937, Location: Jerusalem, Lebanon)
1939	World War II (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Europe, North Africa, Asia-Pacific, etc. (no combat occurred within Turkey))
1941	The Holocaust and the Issue of El-Husseini's Collaboration (Age: 46 years old, Period: 1941–1945, Location: Nazi Germany-Occupied Territories, Balkans, Middle East, etc.) Exile to Nazi Germany and Collaboration (Amin al-Husseini, Age: 46 years old, Period: 1941–1945, Location: Berlin, Germany) 1941 Anti-British Coup in Iraq (Age: 46 years old, Period: April 1–June 2, 1941, Location: Kingdom of Iraq, Baghdad, etc.) Farhud (Baghdad Anti-Jewish Riots, Age: 46 years old, Period: June 1–2, 1941, Location: Baghdad, Kingdom of Iraq) Meeting with Adolf Hitler (Age: 46 years old, Period: November 28, 1941, Location: Berlin, Reich Chancellery)
1943	Recruitment of Muslim Soldiers for the Waffen-SS (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1943–1944, Location: Balkans, Especially Bosnia)
1945	Escape from Custody of French Authorities (Age: 50 years old, Period: 1945–May 29, 1946, Location: France, Near Paris, Cairo, Egypt)
1948	First Arab-Israeli War (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1948–1949, Location: Former Mandatory Palestine, Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip, etc.) Establishment of the All-Palestine Government (Age: 53 years old, Period: September 22, 1948, Location: Gaza Strip)
1964	Establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Decline of Political Influence (Age: 69 years old, Period: 1964 Onward, Location: Middle East, Especially Egypt and Lebanon)
1974	Death of Amin al-Husayni (Age: 79 years old, Period: July 4, 1974)
Unknown	Marriage (Amin al-Husseini, detailed full name unconfirmed, Period: Unknown, Location: Unknown)

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Ottoman Empire	Mehmed Han bin Abdülmecid Mehmed Vahdeddin Han bin Abdülmecid İsmail Enver Mehmed Talat Ahmet Cemal Mustafa Kemal Mustafa İsmet Mustafa Fevzi
Syrian nationalist movement	Faisal I Sultan al-Atrash Ibrahim Hananu Hashim al-Atassi Shukri al-Quwatli Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar Bishara al-Khuri Emile Eddé Riyad al-Sulh Antoun Saadeh
Palestinian national movement	Amin al-Husayni Musa al-Husayni Raghib al-Nashashibi Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni Chaim Weizmann David Ben-Gurion Zeev Jabotinsky Golda Meir Vladimir Jabotinsky Moshe Sharett

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