Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Middle East historian and Hochberg Family Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum of Philadelphia, authored recently the German books Islam in Europe, Revolts in the Middle East; Middle East Mosaic 2013 and Middle East Mosaic 2014. He edited in English Germany and the Middle East, and co-authored with Barry M. Rubin Nazis, Islamists and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Last month, Israel's National Library blogged about Heinrich Himmler's lost telegram to the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. Contrary to the oft-repeated claim that Nazi Germany...