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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (700)	2/1/2002 10:41:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

Ask Nadine how many dead Jews the Mufti is responsible for through his association with the Nazis? Well, len, did you read the link I posted? The two divisions of Waffen SS that the Mufti raised are usually credited with killing 90% of Bosnia's Jews, that's about 10,000 people. As for the Mufti's personal actions, he mostly concentrated on stopping shirkers who were willing to sell Jews to would-be rescuers instead of doing their duty and killing them. The 5,000 children that Eichman was willing to sell, the Mufti personally put a stop to that. He's also credited with putting the kibosh on a plan to sell 80,000 Bulgarian Jews. He also generally gets credit for the Fuhrer's orders not to leave the Hungarian Jews in ghettoes but to deport them to Auschwitz. This was in 1944, the war situation was already a little dicey, and killing Jews was not the top of everybody's priorities. But it was always on the top of the Mufti's priorities! Over 300,000 of Hungary's 450,000 Jews died. So directly and indirectly, he was responsible for about 400,000 dead Jews that I know of. There may be more that my history books don't mention. Since Rommel was stopped in North Africa, the Mufti never got his chance to set up death camps for the Jews of the Yishuv in Palestine, much to his regret. The Mufti should have been tried at Nuremberg with the other architects of the Final Solution, but the French were mad at the British for kicking them out of Lebanon, and he was permitted to escape. Hope this answers your questions.