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April 7, 2017

Heinrich Himmler’s Lost Letter to the Mufti of Jerusalem

Commemorating the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

A letter from Heinrich Himmler—the head of the SS and the key official behind the planning and implementation of the Holocaust—to Amin Haj al-Husseini, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem, was recently discovered in Israel’s National Library. Dated to 1943, the letter expresses German solidarity with Palestinian Arabs in undoing the “criminal” Balfour Declaration. Joy Bernard writes:

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