Simon Wiesenthal - "The Great Mufti", 1947

Simon Wiesenthal - "The Great Mufti", 1947

Grossmufti, Grossagent der Achse, Tatsachenbericht mit 24 Photographien, by Simon Wiesenthal. [The Grand Mufti, Axis State Agent, factual report with 24 photographs], by Simon Wiesenthal. Ried Publishing. Salzburg-Vienna, 1947. German.

Early publication by 'Nazi Hunter' Shimon Wiesenthal, revealing the collaboration of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, with Nazi Germany, on the way he set up Muslim volunteer units within the Waffen SS, on his support for the extermination of Jews and how he sued Increasing the rate of extermination in 1942, his attempts to 'purge' Libyan Jewry from its Jews and expropriate their property, and more. The book is accompanied by a number of photo plates, in which Haj Amin al-Husseini is seen in front of SS soldiers, shaking the hand of one of the soldiers, in his famous meeting with Hitler in Berlin in November 1941, when he revealed to Furer that Arab countries were convinced that Germany would win the war, and that the Arabs were Germany's natural friends in terms of their common enemies - the British, the Jews and the Communists, Arab soldiers in the German army, and more.

As a Holocaust survivor, Wiesenthal devoted his life to gathering and documenting information about Nazi war criminals in order to prosecute them. Wiesenthal's method of work was based on the careful collection of every possible piece of paper and item of information about the criminals, the concentration and documentation of the material in his humble offices in Vienna, and its transfer to the appropriate authorities for detection and extradition proceedings. Wiesenthal was able to prosecute more than 1,100 war criminals who were responsible for mass murders during the Holocaust.

[16], 63, [1] pages, 20.5 cm. Good condition.