![The Mufti of Jerusalem (1921-1937) Hajj Amin al-Husayni, an Arab nationalist, prominent Muslim religious leader, and wartime propagandist ... [LCID: 59067]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8adf5035-891b-420d-a4c3-73748355580a.jpg)
During World War II, the Nazi regime financed and facilitated anti-British and antisemitic broadcasts by the former Mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, an Arab nationalist and prominent Muslim religious leader, to mobilize support for Germany and the Axis among Muslims in the Balkans and the Middle East. At the close of the war, al-Husayni was arrested in the French occupation zone of Germany. After authorities moved him to France, al-Husayni fled to Egypt, where he continued to produce and disseminate inflammatory anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish, and anti-Israel propaganda. He died in 1974. (Source record ID: E39 Nr.1033/17)
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