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    "ocrText": "THE MUFTI'S DIARY\nON HIS MEETING WITH HITLER\nAND\nRECORDS\nHaj Amin El Husseini, recording in his own handwriting his\nmeeting with Hitler in his diary, says:\nThe words of the Fuehrer on the 6th of Zul Qaada 1360 of the\nHejira (which falls on the 21st of November 1941) Berlin, Friday,\nfrom 4:30 P.M. till a few minutes after 6.\nThe objectives of my fight are clear. Primarily, I am fight-\ning the Jews without respite, and this fight includes the fight\nagainst the so-called Jewish National Home in Palestine because the\nJews want to establish there a central government for their own per-\nnicious purposes, and to undertake a devastating and ruinous expansi on\nat the expense of the governments of the world and of other peoples.\nIt is clear that the Jews have accomplished nothing in Pales-\ntine and their claims are lies. All the accomplishments in Palestine\nare due to the Arabs and not to the Jews. I am resolved to find a\nsolution for the Jewish problem, progressing step by step without\ncessation. With regard to this I am making the necessary and right\nappeal, first to all the European countries and then to countries out -\nside of Europe.\nIt is true that our common enemies are Great Britain and the\nSoviets whose principles are opposed to ours. But behind them stands\nhidden Jewry which drives them both. Jewry has but one aim in both\nthese countries. We are now in the midst of a life and death struggle\nagainst both these nations. This fight will not only determine the\noutcome of the struggle between National Socialism and Jewry, but the\nwhole conduct of this successful war will be of great and positive help\nto the Arabs who are engaged in the same struggle.\nThis is not only an abstract assurance. A mere promise would\nbe of no value whatsoever. But assurance which rests upon a conquer-\ning force is the only one which has real value. In the Iraqi campaign,\nfor instance, the sympathy of thewhole German people was for Iraq.\nIt was our aim to help Iraq, but circumstances prevented us from fur-\nnishing actual help. The German people saw in them (in the Iraqis - Ed.)\ncomrades in suffering because the German people too have suffered as\nthey have. All the help we gave Iraq was not sufficient to save Iraq\nfrom the British forces. For this reason it is necessary to underscore"
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