Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-436) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Before Hitler -- Ch. 1. Baghdad Burning -- Ch. 2. 2,600 Years of Iraqi Jewry -- Ch. 3. Oil Lust -- Ch. 4. Britain and the Talking of Mesopotamia -- Ch. 5. Return to Zion -- Ch. 6. The Zionist Movement -- Ch. 7. Creating Iraq -- Ch. 8. Peace and Petroleum -- Ch. 9. Jihad -- pt. 2. The Hitler Era -- Ch. 10. Germany and the Middle East -- Ch. 11. Rise of the Mufti -- Ch. 12. The Arabs Reach for the Reich -- Ch. 13. The Nazi Quest for Oil -- Ch. 14. The Farhud -- Ch. 15. The Arab-Nazi Alliance -- Epilog. After the Holocaust -- Afterword. Samuel Edelman.
Summary
The Nazis needed oil. The Arabs wanted the Jews and British out of Iraq. The Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Hitler resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the devastation and expulsion of the Iraqi Jews and ultimately almost a million Jews across the Arab world. The Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance in the Holocaust. --publisher.
