@Theo202,
Predominantly Muslim Albanians is a weasel word. The Albanians saved them.
While Albania may be Muslim majority, it kinda depends on the region.
https://www.frosina.org/more-about-how-albania-saved-jews-during-the-holocaust/
Quote:The names of the courageous Muslim and Christian Albanians who saved the Jews are honored as “Righteous Among the Nations” at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and are inscribed on the Rescuers Wall at the U.S. Holocaust
Meanwhile, here's what wikipedia says.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relations_between_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Arab_world
Quote:In public and private, Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler made warm statements about Islam as a religion and political ideology, describing it as a more disciplined, militaristic, political, and practical form of religion than Christianity, and commending what they perceived to be Muhammad's skill in politics and military leadership. However, the official Nazi racial ideology also considered Arabs and North Africans to be racially inferior to Germans, a sentiment echoed by Hitler and other Nazi leaders to deprecate them.
It then discusses both Islamic support and opposition to Jewish persecution.
In opposition, they emphasize that the Muslims were mostly anti-Axis. But in opposition, they mention North Africa, Iraq, and "Palestine." As well as Arabs in Germany and Italy.
Quote:Back in the summer of 1940 and again in February 1941, al-Husseini submitted to the Nazi German Government a draft declaration of German-Arab cooperation, containing a clause:
"Germany and Italy recognize the right of the Arab countries to solve the question of the Jewish elements, which exist in Palestine and in the other Arab countries, as required by the national and ethnic (völkisch) interests of the Arabs, and as the Jewish question was solved in Germany and Italy."
Hmmmm, I wonder how they considered it solved?
Also, not only was the gold symbol the Germans copied from Muslims, but the Muslims also emulated the Germans.
Quote:The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) adopted styles of fascism. Its emblem, the red hurricane, was taken from the Nazi swastika, leader Antoun Saadeh was known as al-za'im (the leader), and the party anthem was "Syria, Syria, über alles" sung to the same tune as the German national anthem. He founded the fascist SSNP with a program that Syrians were "a distinctive and naturally superior race."
