David Volodzko talks with Alexander von Sternberg about Amin al-Husseini, the Nazi godfather of Palestinian nationalism, his early life, his embrace of Nazism, his efforts to send Jewish children to death camps, his legacy since then, and his place in the Palestinian movement today.
Von Sternberg is the host of the historical podcast History Impossible. He’s also a writer whose essays and reviews have been published in a number of publications including Queer Majority, Quillette, Merion West, and Areo Magazine.
For more on this subject, see von Sternberg’s six-hour podcast episode on al-Husseini, The Muslim Nazis: The German Voice of Islam.
You can also listen to Volodzko as a guest on History Impossible here. Finally, here is a list of some of the books mentioned in this week’s episode: Palestine 1936, The Arabs and the Holocaust, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, Islam and Nazi Germany’s War, The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years, and Through the Eyes of the Mufti.
The Nazi Roots of Palestinianism