Farhud: Futuwwa; Mufti; Hitler's F. Grobba; Rashid 'Ali
Farhud - June-1941 pogrom on Jews in Iraq, only for being Jews: Hitler's F. Grobba; Nazi propaganda over the airwaves; ex-Mufti al-Husseini; Rashid 'Ali; Syrian/Palestinisn teachers; Arab-Nazi Futuwwa gang; Iraqi police/army Between 180 - 780 died and 1,000 injured ____ Carole L. Basri: ' The Jews of Iraq: A Forgotten Case of Ethnic Cleansing ,' 2003, p.12 The official Iraqi Government report concerning the Farhud laid the blame for the slaughter on six sources. First , the report noted the responsibility of the German Legation , for spreading sustained anti - Jewish Nazi propaganda under the direction of Dr . Fritz Grobba . A second source of incitement was the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseni and his entourage, which accompanied him to Iraq in 1940 . As the report stated: "Once he was firmly established , he began disseminating Nazi propaganda with great cunning, while decrying the injustice done to Pale...