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April 24, 2017

Himmler’s Forgotten Telegram to the Mufti, and What It Means

Mutual ideological admiration.

Last month, Israeli researchers discovered a telegram—dated to November 1943—from the SS chief Heinrich Himmler to the former grand mufti of Jerusalem Amin Haj al-Husseini, marking the anniversary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration and their shared hope for preventing its realization. Joel Fishman explains the telegram’s significance:

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April 24, 2017

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