The Farhud : roots of the Arab-Nazi alliance in the Holocaust /

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 m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Black, Edwin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Dialog Press, c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt.1. Before Hitler
  • Ch.1. Baghdad Burning
  • Ch.2. 2,600 Years of Iraqi Jewry
  • Ch.3. Oil Lust
  • Ch.4. Britain and the Talking of Mesopotamia
  • Ch.5. Return to Zion
  • Ch.6. The Zionist Movement
  • Ch.7. Creating Iraq
  • Ch.8. Peace and Petroleum
  • Ch.9. Jihad
  • Pt.2. The Hitler Era
  • Ch.10. Germany and the Middle East
  • Ch.11. Rise of the Mufti
  • Ch.12. The Arabs Reach for the Reich
  • Ch.13. The Nazi Quest for Oil
  • Ch.14. The Farhud
  • Ch.15. The Arab-Nazi Alliance
  • Epilog. After the Holocaust
  • Afterword. Samuel Edelman