Komin Incorrect on several counts; the Muslim regiments were not small, and they were in operation long before the end of the war. In December 1941, the OKW was ordered to two Muslim units, the Turkestanisch Legion and the Kaukasisch-Mohammedan Legion. Another Muslim legion, the Wolgatatarische Legion, was created in Poland in January 1942. 70,000 Muslim volunteers served with the Turkestanisch Legion. Other Muslim divisions that fought for the Nazis were the Ostt=FCrkischen Waffen-Verb=E4nde der SS, Kaukasicher Waffen-Verbande der-SS, and the Waffen-Gebirgs-Brigade der-SS. Amin al-Husayni, Mufti of Jerusalem, leader of Palestine Arabs, Hitler's "honored guest and blood brother, and Arafat's hero and role model, created the Muslim SS legions 13th Waffen Gebirgsdivision der SS ("Handjar") and the 21st Waffen Gebirgsdivision ("Skanderbeg"), which mbuttacred hundreds of thousands in Bosnia and Croatia--most of them Xians. "Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish problem in a manner befitting our national and racial aspirations, and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews. The answer I got was: 'The Jews are yours.'" - Amin al Husayni, Memoirs Muslim participation in WWII for the Nazis was not "small" or negligible. Deborah
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