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00:03Munich, Lockerbie, 9-11, Charlie Hebdo.
00:08Measuring history by a list of terrorist atrocities, there is one thing that is certain.
00:14The tactics used come straight out of the Nazi playbook.
00:20Himmler, Goering, Goebbels, they knew that there had to be a way for the war to continue without a centralized
00:26command.
00:27And that's the essence of a terrorist operation.
00:30And now, incredible new research reveals how Nazi disciples spread this idea to militants across the Middle East.
00:38Egypt enabled an environment where the swastika could sit quite nicely next to the Sphinx.
00:44Hitler realized that there was something very different about Islam.
00:48Islam was not a religion of slaves, but of warriors.
00:52This is the shocking truth of a self-replicating virus of hatred that continues to spread Hitler's dream of death
00:59and destruction throughout the world.
01:02This is the untold story of the Nazi jihad.
01:13At the start of the 20th century, one million Jews lived peacefully in the Arab countries of North Africa and
01:20the Middle East.
01:21For the most part, the Jews who lived in Palestine were local.
01:25They were Sephardic Jews who had lived and grown up alongside Arab neighbors for centuries.
01:31So, there was a commonality there, there was a tolerance there.
01:38But after Germany's devastating defeat in World War I, everything changes.
01:44He's going to do the rule with us!
01:46A young politician, Adolf Hitler, targets the Jews in Europe as the people behind all of Germany's problems.
01:53And fearing violence against them, vast numbers flee to the Middle East for the safety of a new home.
02:00The Nazi government was trying to make life very miserable for Jews in Germany in order to motivate them to
02:08leave.
02:09It was, in a way, a policy of ethnic cleansing.
02:12In the 1930s, 250,000 European Jews immigrate to Palestine, as Britain agrees to make it their official homeland.
02:23But local Arabs find their whole way of life turned upside down.
02:28It wasn't just that the Jews who were local in Palestine were getting their own homeland.
02:33It was that a bunch of Europeans, who didn't even speak the language, were suddenly shipping themselves into Palestine.
02:39Tensions rise. Traditional Arab neighborhoods disappear as European Jews outbid poorer local Arabs for territory to create farming communities called
02:50Kibbutzim.
02:51It was making everyone extremely uncomfortable to the point of violence.
02:57The Arabs retaliate with a campaign of strikes, sabotage, and targeted killings.
03:04One of the leading instigators of anti-Jewish unrest is the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini.
03:12The Grand Mufti was massively anti-British, and he was a massive anti-Semite as well.
03:17He wanted the destruction of all Jews.
03:20He was quite unequivocal about it.
03:23At the same time, al-Husseini was a very charismatic figure.
03:26He had great rhetorical talent and could be very charming.
03:32Given the title Grand Mufti of Jerusalem by the British, al-Husseini uses his leadership position to transform the fight
03:40from a political war to a religious one.
03:46And from 1936 to 1939, he inspires 5,000 Arabs to lose their lives, fighting to stop the transfer of
03:55land to the new Jewish settlers.
03:59He promoted this idea of a Jewish conspiracy to destroy Islam.
04:05He tried to do whatever he could to incite violence in that region.
04:09He made it extremely unstable.
04:11But number one on al-Husseini's list of targets are not the Jewish settlers,
04:17but the moderate Arab majority who still believe in a peaceful solution.
04:24Without doubt, the majority was certainly interested in a peaceful reconciliation with the Jewish minority,
04:31not this radical way the Mufti and others developed.
04:35The Mufti, the army al-Husseini and others developed.
04:41Al-Husseini snuffs out the Arab moderates with the same relentless oppression and violence with which he attacks the Jews.
04:48Much more Palestinians were killed by Palestinians than by British soldiers or by Jews,
04:55because they didn't obey to the Mufti's orders.
04:59So it was a real hard time for moderate people.
05:05This targeted eradication of the peaceful majority tips the balance
05:09and has a profound and long-lasting impact on the stability of the region.
05:17This key phase where moderate Palestinian Muslims were muzzled or even murdered
05:23is fundamental for the understanding of the Middle East conflict.
05:31The British react to the chaos the Mufti is causing in the region,
05:36and he becomes a wanted man, soon forced to flee Palestine.
05:46On November 28th, 1941, Amin al-Husseini heads for Nazi Germany,
05:51where he engineers a meeting with his hero, Adolf Hitler.
05:56Al-Husseini idolized Hitler.
05:59But Hitler had sort of an arm's-length relationship with al-Husseini.
06:04He wasn't quite sure of the guy's racial background,
06:06even though he was fair-haired and blue-eyed.
06:09He still had his doubts.
06:12Hitler hands al-Husseini over to the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler,
06:17giving birth to an Islamic Nazi pact whose legacy carries on to this day.
06:24Himmler loved the guy.
06:26Here was a man who looked Aryan, and his anti-Semitism was virulent.
06:30It was violent. It was fanatic, even more so than the Nazis.
06:36Immediately impressed by his extreme anti-Semitism,
06:40Himmler welcomes al-Husseini as the fuhrer of the Arab world.
06:44And soon the leader of the SS is extolling Islam
06:47as a superior religion to both Judaism and Christianity.
06:52Both Hitler and Himmler realized that there was something very different about Islam
06:57that compared to Christianity and Judaism, which they called slave religions,
07:01that Islam was not a religion of slaves, but of warriors.
07:05Al-Husseini underlines the similarities between Islamic and Nazi ideals.
07:12Unity under one leader.
07:15Obedience and discipline.
07:17But most importantly, a bitter hatred of Jews.
07:23Hitler was against what he considered to be modern decadence in art,
07:27in culture, as well as in politics.
07:29He was against anything that smacked of liberalism and progressive thought.
07:32So he and al-Husseini's ideals matched very closely.
07:36The Mufti makes a big impression.
07:38The Nazi high command start to realize just how useful an Islamic ally could be.
07:44For the Germans, he was a real opportunity
07:48to further fan the flames of anti-British sentiment in the Middle East.
07:54And they made full use of him.
07:57They wanted the Suez Canal, they wanted the oil,
07:59they wanted access even to Central Asia from there.
08:03Himmler gives the Mufti the title of Gruppenfuhrer,
08:06equivalent to a Nazi general.
08:08But the Mufti gets even more from the Nazis than a flattering title.
08:13The Germans paid the Mufti handsomely for his services.
08:16He also received villas and houses across Berlin and in the countryside,
08:20both for himself and his vast entourage.
08:26April 1943, a year and a half after his first meeting with Hitler,
08:31the Arab Fuhrer al-Husseini seizes an opportunity in the Balkans
08:35to cement the new Nazi-Islam relationship.
08:39In Bosnia, the Grand Mufti implores local Muslims
08:43to put down an insurgency led by communists
08:46by joining a special Islamic division of the SS.
08:51Himmler was a strong believer in the Mufti's influence.
08:55And so in early 1943, he sent him to Bosnia
08:59to help recruiting Muslim volunteers into the SS unit.
09:06Al-Husseini's impassioned speeches drive recruitment.
09:10And soon this Muslim division is one of the largest in the Waffen SS,
09:15with 26,000 men.
09:20Although the Fez-wearing-Hanchar division's immediate enemy
09:23are the Yugoslav communists,
09:25al-Husseini ensures that they also attack his avowed enemy, the Jews.
09:32He writes a Muslim-Nazi handbook that makes it crystal clear
09:36that defeating communists is not the Muslim army's only priority.
09:41The day of judgment will come
09:43when the Muslims will crush the Jews completely,
09:46and when every tree behind which a Jew hides will say,
09:49there is a Jew behind me, kill him.
09:54The unit quickly earns a reputation for savagery.
09:59There are several reprisal attacks against Serbian and Jewish civilians
10:03that leave thousands dead.
10:06But the Arab Führer never loses sight of his ultimate goal,
10:11the eradication of Jews in Palestine.
10:17Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels
10:19has already identified the Arab Middle East
10:21as an important ally in the fight against the British.
10:25The Germans' main opportunity for undermining the British there
10:30was through Arab resistance there.
10:32And so there were a number of sponsored coups, uprisings, and so on,
10:37that the Germans were heavily involved in throughout the Second World War.
10:40Now, al-Husseini convinces the Nazis
10:43that he can use anti-Semitic radio broadcasts
10:46to exploit the simmering Arab resentment of the Jews.
10:50He still had followers in Palestine
10:52and still could stir up consider a amount of trouble
10:54even from a distance.
10:57Several times a day, over many months,
11:00al-Husseini's propaganda blasts from public speakers
11:03across the Middle East.
11:05His messages have one aim,
11:07to convince the Arab nations
11:09the Nazi fight is their fight.
11:12Imagine, if you will,
11:13a cafe in a small town in Egypt or in Palestine.
11:18Young men sitting, smoking cigarettes,
11:21drinking coffee, and listening to the radio.
11:23There's a voice coming at them from Berlin,
11:25talking to them in their own language.
11:27A man that they knew, who was famous,
11:29a man they trusted,
11:30saying that the war is coming to them,
11:32that they should rise up and support the Nazis.
11:35Hitler is winning the war,
11:36and now he needs your help.
11:38Al-Husseini pulls directly from the Koran
11:41an ancient religious concept, the Jihad,
11:45and urges Arabs to join the Nazis in a holy war.
11:49Nazi propaganda tried to portray the British,
11:53Americans, Jews, the Soviets,
11:55as the enemies of Islam,
11:56while at the same time promoting Nazi Germany
11:59as a great protector and friend of Islam.
12:03But the real focus of Al-Husseini's hatred is the Jews.
12:08In one broadcast,
12:09Husseini makes their slaughter a religious obligation.
12:13On March 1, 1944, on Radio Berlin,
12:17Al-Husseini says,
12:29An Arabic translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf
12:33becomes a bestseller,
12:35alongside a wickedly anti-Semitic hoax,
12:38The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
12:42Although the book was known to be a forgery,
12:45the Arab world was more than ready
12:47to believe the so-called secret Jewish master plan
12:50that was one of the major drivers
12:52behind Nazi hatred of the Jews.
12:55It was forged by the Tsarist secret police
12:57to use as an excuse to conduct pogroms
13:00against the Jews within Tsarist Russia.
13:02But a man went with a copy of this to Adolf Hitler
13:07back in the 1920s
13:09and showed him this document and said,
13:10Look, here's proof that the Jews have a conspiracy
13:13to turn the whole world into their own synagogue.
13:17The hatred of the Jews
13:19that still pervades the Middle East
13:21can be traced back directly
13:23to this onslaught of Nazi propaganda.
13:27Even today,
13:28the charter of the political party Hamas
13:31refers to the fabricated protocols
13:33and accepts them as fact.
13:36It's depressing to see
13:38how many people in the Middle East
13:41believe that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
13:43are an eternal truth.
13:46And as long as people believe in this lie,
13:49there won't be a change for the battle.
13:53Now the Mufti puts his growing influence
13:55over the Nazis to sickening use,
13:57speeding up and expanding the Jewish genocide.
14:02He will become one of two key figures
14:05in grafting Nazi tactics and ideology
14:07to the Arab world.
14:15The height of the Second World War, Berlin.
14:20The Arab Fuhrer, Amin al-Husseini,
14:23is busy cozying up to the architects
14:25of the final solution,
14:27Himmler and Eichmann,
14:28who send the Mufti staff
14:30to report on the effectiveness
14:31of the concentration camps
14:32north of the city.
14:34And now, new research reveals
14:37just how close the Jews in the Middle East
14:39came to suffering the same
14:41industrialized genocidal fate
14:43as their European relatives.
14:52A group of Mufti followers
14:53visits the concentration camp,
14:56Sachsenhausen.
14:57And if you believe the report
14:59of this SS officer,
15:01the Arabs had a particular interest
15:03in the treatment
15:04of the Jewish detainees.
15:11The industrialized death camps
15:13are killing and disposing
15:14of the bodies of thousands of Jews
15:16on a daily basis.
15:19Not fast enough for al-Husseini.
15:24It was al-Husseini
15:25who thought that they were killing
15:26too few Jews
15:27and was taking too long.
15:28Al-Husseini complained about this
15:30and thought they could do better.
15:32Witness testimonies
15:34from the war crime hearings
15:35at Nuremberg
15:36assert that al-Husseini
15:37lobbied concentration camp chief
15:39Adolf Eichmann
15:40to expand the final solution
15:42into Palestine.
15:44Dieter Veseleni,
15:46an employee
15:46at Adolf Eichmann's head office,
15:48told the jury
15:49of an important meeting
15:50between the Mufti and Eichmann.
15:55The Mufti was in the notoriously
15:58famous map room of Eichmann
16:00where he orchestrated
16:01the final solution with maps.
16:04The Mufti presses Eichmann
16:06to send so-called Jew advisors
16:09to Palestine
16:10to register Jews
16:11for deportation
16:12to extermination camps.
16:15He was in the position
16:17to tell Eichmann
16:18that the deployment
16:19of a Jew advisor
16:21for Jerusalem
16:21had already been promised
16:23by Himmler.
16:27Eichmann's agenda
16:29was of course
16:29to get rid of the Jews entirely.
16:31He understood immediately
16:33al-Husseini's agenda
16:35was to exterminate
16:36the Jewish population,
16:37get back Palestine
16:38from this Jewish occupation force
16:40as he saw it.
16:42Further evidence
16:43from the Nuremberg trials
16:44states the Mufti
16:45had prepared to replicate
16:47Nazi-style concentration camps
16:49in the Middle East.
16:50The Mufti had planned
16:54concentration camps
16:56for Palestine.
16:57In this communication
16:58with Adolf Eichmann
16:59this is what's being suggested.
17:03Chillingly,
17:05al-Husseini
17:05had already trialed
17:07a downscale version
17:08of the final solution
17:09in North Africa.
17:12On his suggestion,
17:14Field Marshal Rommel's
17:16troops in North Africa
17:17are shadowed
17:18by the chief Nazi exterminator
17:19Walter Rauf,
17:21the inventor
17:22of the mobile gas chamber.
17:24Walter Rauf
17:25would follow Rommel
17:26through North Africa
17:27going town to town
17:28looking for Jews
17:29that he would round up
17:30and kill.
17:31Rauf's vans
17:32aid the murder
17:33of two and a half thousand
17:35Tunisian Jews.
17:37It's such an effective
17:38extermination method,
17:39Al-Husseini wants
17:40to unleash it
17:41across the Middle East.
17:43This was a function
17:44that was suggested
17:45by Al-Husseini
17:46as something
17:47that they could do
17:48once the Reich
17:48was in control
17:49of certain geographic areas
17:51to get rid of the Jews
17:51immediately.
17:52That would help
17:53make the German occupation
17:55a lot easier.
17:58Rommel's troops
17:59are within 150 miles
18:01of Cairo
18:02when the Allies
18:03hold firm
18:04at El Alameen.
18:05It is terrifying
18:07to imagine
18:07what could have happened
18:08if Cairo
18:09had fallen
18:10to the Nazis.
18:11Egypt would have
18:12become the first
18:13Islamic Nazi state
18:14and the final solution
18:16would have rolled out
18:17across the Middle East.
18:19This bleak outcome
18:21is hidden
18:21between the lines
18:22of an innocuous
18:24sounding memo.
18:25In July 1942,
18:28Rommel's Afrika Korps
18:29stationed in Northern Egypt
18:31receive a telex.
18:38In the document,
18:40the SS task
18:41is authorized
18:41to take executive measures
18:44towards the civilian population.
18:46That doesn't sound
18:48very suspicious at first,
18:50but this exact passage
18:51was used in another document
18:53from the previous year.
18:56On the basis
18:57of this innocuous sentence,
18:59half a million Soviet Jews
19:01were murdered
19:02by the SS task forces.
19:09There would have been
19:10no Jews left
19:11in Palestine
19:11had Rommel made it
19:12across the Suez Canal.
19:15But not even
19:16the Nazis' crushing defeat
19:18in the war
19:18deters the Mufti
19:20from his wicked pursuit
19:21of the Jews.
19:23When Germany falls,
19:24the fleeing Al Husseini
19:26is briefly held
19:27by the French.
19:28But he escapes
19:29to return to the country
19:30where his anti-Semitic,
19:32pro-Nazi radio broadcasts
19:33have made him
19:34a national hero.
19:36The Mufti of Jerusalem,
19:38when he came back,
19:39he was hailed
19:40as a new leader
19:41of the Palestinians
19:42and of the Arab world.
19:44He was the most
19:45well-known Arab person
19:47at that time.
19:50The Mufti,
19:51in fact,
19:52continued what he did
19:54before he went
19:56to Nazi Germany.
19:57And this was
19:58to spread anti-Semitism
20:00and to kill
20:02or intimidate
20:04those who didn't
20:06share his point of view.
20:08When rumors surface
20:10that the moderate
20:11King Abdullah of Jordan
20:12is considering
20:13making peace
20:14with Israel,
20:15first his prime minister
20:17and then the king himself
20:18are assassinated.
20:20Although there is
20:21no direct evidence
20:22linking al-Husseini
20:24to the murder,
20:25his cousin
20:26is arrested
20:26as the mastermind.
20:28Again,
20:29the Mufti snuffs out
20:30any hope of peace,
20:32forcibly rejecting
20:33any plan
20:34to divide up Palestine
20:35into a Jewish
20:37and an Arab state.
20:38It was the power
20:40and the terror
20:41of the Mufti
20:42which prevented
20:44the first partition plan.
20:46And then,
20:47after the Holocaust,
20:48it was again
20:48the Mufti
20:49which prevented
20:51the realization
20:52of the partition plan.
20:55The Arab Fuhrer
20:57is aided in his fight
20:58against Israel
20:59by former Nazi officers
21:01who are arriving
21:02in the Middle East
21:03in droves.
21:05Egypt was pro-German,
21:06but it was also
21:07anti-Semitic
21:08and anti-communist.
21:10So this enabled
21:11an environment
21:12where the swastika
21:13could sit quite nicely
21:14next to the Sphinx.
21:17For those who were
21:18trying to overthrow
21:19British influence
21:20and trying to get rid
21:21of the Jewish state
21:21in Israel,
21:23an obvious source
21:24of help
21:24was former Nazis
21:26for their knowledge,
21:27their military prowess,
21:29experience,
21:30tactical knowledge
21:31and so on.
21:32And so a number of them
21:33get invited
21:34to come to Egypt.
21:36The number of Nazis
21:37within Egypt
21:38in the 1950s
21:40is quite staggering.
21:42And when you look
21:43at the names,
21:44it really reads
21:45as a who's who
21:46of Nazi Germany.
21:51Historian Peter Lavenda
21:53has unearthed
21:54a recently declassified list
21:55that reveals
21:56the number
21:57of high-ranking Nazis
21:58who embraced Islam,
22:00many even converting
22:02and taking Muslim names.
22:05We have SS officer
22:07Johann von Leers,
22:09a very famous Nazi.
22:10He worked for
22:11Josef Goebbels
22:12in the propaganda ministry.
22:13He moves to Egypt,
22:15changes his name
22:16to Omar Amin,
22:17and he starts working
22:18for the Nasser government
22:19in anti-Israel propaganda.
22:23These classified files
22:25reveal dozens
22:26of SS officers
22:28attaining high-ranking jobs
22:30in the Egyptian secret police
22:32and propaganda services.
22:36This is a shocking set of names,
22:38and it's only
22:39a very small set of names.
22:40There are many more
22:41to be declassified.
22:42The Egyptian internal
22:43security services
22:45emerges into very much
22:46a police state,
22:48which has very interesting parallels
22:51with the Nazi police state.
22:55Nazi scientists
22:56who had created
22:57the V-1 and V-2 rockets
22:59are also brought in
23:00to develop missiles
23:01specifically targeting
23:02the new state of Israel.
23:06among the Nazi officers
23:08who have secretly
23:09and not so secretly
23:11made the journey
23:11to the Middle East
23:12is the man
23:13who will help the mufti
23:15merge Nazi military training
23:17with the call of jihad,
23:19Otto Skorzeny.
23:24July 1948,
23:26Darmstadt prison, Germany.
23:29Here, high-ranking Nazis
23:31are awaiting trial
23:33for war crimes.
23:38In the middle of the night,
23:40two American soldiers show up.
23:43They had papers that demanded
23:45the release
23:46of an important prisoner
23:47from American custody.
23:49These were Americans
23:50dressed in American uniforms
23:52with American paperwork,
23:54or so it seemed.
23:55The men are actually members
23:58of an elite corps
23:59of Nazi commandos,
24:01the werewolves.
24:03The soldiers escort
24:04the prisoner
24:05through security
24:06and disappear
24:07into the night.
24:09The prisoner
24:10was taken into custody
24:11and was never seen again
24:13until he turned up
24:14later in Franco's Spain.
24:17The prisoner's name
24:19was Otto Skorzeny.
24:22Otto Skorzeny
24:23is Hitler's favorite commando,
24:25a soldier described
24:27as the most dangerous man
24:28in Europe.
24:30His escape
24:31is bad news
24:32for the brand new
24:33state of Israel.
24:36because Hitler's
24:37favorite commando
24:38will find his way
24:40to Egypt.
24:41There,
24:42he will transform
24:43the viper's nest
24:44of hunted Nazis
24:45and Arab anti-Semites
24:47into a maelstrom
24:49of evil
24:49that flows
24:50to this day.
24:59In September 1943,
25:02Italian dictator
25:03Benito Mussolini
25:04sits in a thousand-foot
25:06high mountaintop jail,
25:07imprisoned by his own troops.
25:12Nazi officer Otto Skorzeny
25:14leads 80 SS commandos
25:16on a high-risk mission
25:17to rescue Mussolini.
25:19It is an eye-catching success.
25:23A daring raid
25:24which Nazi propagandists
25:26absolutely milked
25:27for all it's worth.
25:29This made him
25:30Hitler's darling.
25:32Skorzeny suddenly
25:33became the go-to guy
25:34for anything
25:35that was remotely
25:36concerned with
25:37what we would call
25:37today terrorist operations.
25:40In October 1944,
25:43Skorzeny is once again
25:44hailed for his heroics.
25:46With Hungarian dictator,
25:48Miklas Horthy,
25:49on the verge of
25:50surrendering to the Soviets,
25:52Skorzeny
25:52kidnaps the dictator's son.
25:54In kidnapping Horvý's son,
25:57Horvý is forced to abdicate,
25:59a new pro-axis government
26:01is put in power instead,
26:03and the surrender negotiations
26:04come to nothing.
26:06Again,
26:06the daring kidnap
26:07makes headlines.
26:09Otto Skorzeny
26:10is something of a celebrity
26:12within Nazi Germany.
26:14The charming one-man
26:16Aryan propaganda machine
26:18is as malevolent
26:19as his notoriety suggests.
26:23He had a scar
26:24running down the side
26:25of his face
26:25from a duel,
26:26he claimed,
26:27a never-say-no type
26:28who was fiercely devoted
26:29to the Nazi party,
26:31fiercely devoted to Hitler.
26:33He was also
26:33a true believer
26:34and also, you know,
26:35a first-class fanatic.
26:37He was a monster.
26:40But as the German war effort
26:42grows increasingly desperate,
26:44Skorzeny's mission
26:45is about to change.
26:47At the end of the war,
26:48Germany is literally imploding.
26:51Whole cities have been destroyed.
26:52You've got the Russians
26:53coming from the east.
26:54You've got the Allies,
26:56the Americans and the British
26:56and French,
26:57coming from the west
26:58and from the south.
27:00And it's like a noose
27:01that is just closing in
27:03around Germany,
27:04and it's just
27:05all going to pot.
27:14As the noose tightens,
27:17Himmler looks to Skorzeny
27:18to develop a new kind
27:19of warfare,
27:20a warfare that swaps out
27:22an army for fanatical soldiers
27:25trained to create chaos
27:26and spread fear.
27:31Skorzeny throws away
27:32the military rulebook
27:33to create a mobile army
27:35of Nazi terrorists
27:36called werewolves.
27:39The idea for the werewolves
27:41is that these are going
27:42to be small guerrilla squads
27:44of resistance fighters
27:47trained in disruptive tactics
27:50to kind of sort of
27:51get under the skin
27:52of the advancing attackers,
27:54the Allies,
27:55and cause psychological damage
27:56as much as actual damage.
27:58The idea was to find woods,
28:01dig some bunkers
28:02in these woods,
28:03and station these small units,
28:05five to six men,
28:07behind enemy lines.
28:08And then they would harass
28:10the enemy once they were
28:11bypassed by enemy forces.
28:14Skorzeny pioneers the idea
28:16of guerrilla cells
28:17operating in isolation,
28:19leaving no upward trail
28:21of command.
28:23They knew that
28:24Himmler, Goering, Goebbels,
28:26they would all be
28:26either arrested or dead
28:27by the end of the war,
28:29including Hitler.
28:30So there had to be a way
28:31for the war to continue
28:33without a centralized command.
28:35And that's the essence
28:36of a terrorist operation.
28:37You have autonomous cells
28:38operating independently.
28:43At Holkrath Castle
28:45near Arklins,
28:46Skorzeny and his elite commandos
28:48train the werewolves
28:49in terror tactics.
28:52Skorzeny trained
28:53up to about 400 werewolves,
28:55and he believed
28:56that these 400 commandos
28:57would be enough
28:58to conduct an ongoing
28:59guerrilla war
29:00in Germany and Austria
29:01for at least a year or more
29:03after the invasion
29:04had taken place.
29:06Turning the lack
29:07of seasoned soldiers
29:08to his advantage,
29:09Skorzeny realizes
29:11that younger soldiers
29:12can be more easily manipulated.
29:14Most are drawn
29:15from the Hitler youth.
29:16These are young boys.
29:18The reason for that
29:18is twofold.
29:20Firstly,
29:21those boys are available.
29:22They're around.
29:23The second thing is
29:24they're more biddable.
29:26Their brains,
29:27their minds
29:28are more easily nurtured
29:29and turned fanatical.
29:32Skorzeny writes a manual
29:33on cold sabotage,
29:35which he then distributes
29:36to ordinary Germans.
29:38It is in effect
29:39the world's first
29:40terrorist handbook.
29:43It teaches techniques
29:44for disrupting
29:45enemy communications,
29:47destroying fuel dumps,
29:49and tying piano wire
29:51across important roads
29:52to decapitate
29:54allied couriers.
29:56Skorzeny realized
29:57they would not be armed
29:58with Wehrmacht-style weaponry,
30:00with machine guns
30:01and all the rest of it,
30:02bombs, hand grenades.
30:04So they had to be
30:05sort of MacGyvers about it.
30:07They had to use duct tape
30:08and whatever else
30:08they could find
30:09to create weapons to kill.
30:12Most important of all,
30:13they are taught
30:14to become invisible,
30:16to blend in
30:17with the local population.
30:20They had to penetrate
30:21the enemy's defenses
30:23by looking just as normal
30:24as anyone else.
30:26They had to live
30:27among the other Germans
30:27and not be noticed.
30:30In April 1945,
30:32U.S. troops
30:33captured 25 enlisted men
30:36hiding out
30:36in an underground tunnel
30:37filled with weapons
30:38and months of food supplies.
30:41They are wearing
30:41civilian clothes
30:43and claim to be werewolves.
30:48Armed Forces Radio
30:49remind American soldiers
30:51that every friendly
30:52German civilian
30:53is a disguised soldier
30:55of hate.
30:56As an attacking force,
30:58you have no idea
30:59who is going to be resisting
31:01and who isn't.
31:02Because they're so unknowable,
31:03because they're not
31:05organized in any true sense,
31:07that makes them
31:08much harder to defeat.
31:12And just like
31:13al-Husseini's murder
31:14of Palestinian moderates
31:16before the war,
31:17the werewolves
31:18target Germans
31:19who are suspected
31:20of collaborating
31:20with the occupying forces.
31:24In March 1945,
31:27five werewolves
31:28parachute into
31:28newly-occupied Aachen
31:30and shoot down
31:31its mayor
31:32because he had assumed
31:33the post
31:34under the Americans.
31:37The mayor of Aachen
31:38is the most outstanding case,
31:39but there were, like,
31:40probably a dozen
31:41other cases
31:41where small-town mayors
31:43or local civic leaders
31:44were killed
31:45by werewolves.
31:47And Nazi propaganda minister
31:50Joseph Goebbels
31:51learns quickly
31:52that even the idea
31:53of the werewolves
31:54is a potent weapon.
31:56In 1945,
31:57the werewolves
31:58set up a radio station
31:59to rally local civilians
32:01and spread the news
32:03of their deadly exploits
32:04among the Allied
32:05occupying forces.
32:07This marrying together
32:09of a propaganda element
32:10together with professionalism
32:12of trained guerrillas,
32:13this comprised
32:14something original
32:15in the werewolf idea.
32:18The fear they stir up
32:20gets the occupying forces
32:22to overreact,
32:23introducing draconian rules
32:25and turning German civilians
32:27against their liberators.
32:29At a time
32:30when the British
32:31and the Americans
32:31could have gone into Germany
32:32and they might have had
32:33some success
32:34in cultivating democracy
32:35in Germany right off the bat.
32:36What are Germans doing?
32:37Germans are, you know,
32:38they're under curfew
32:39and they can't travel
32:40any more than five miles
32:41from where they're living.
32:42And all of these things
32:43impose partly because
32:45of Allied fear
32:46about the werewolves.
32:47And I think that
32:48what that does
32:49is it just expands
32:50the psychological gulf
32:51between the people
32:52living in occupied areas
32:53and the occupiers.
32:55Otto Skorzeny
32:56is transforming
32:57the amateur world
32:58of insurgency
32:59into highly trained
33:01professional terrorism.
33:03His exploits
33:04will become the stuff
33:05of espionage lore
33:06and eventually appear
33:07in a James Bond novel.
33:12But despite the spread
33:13of fear,
33:14the reality is that
33:15the werewolves
33:16are too few
33:17and too late.
33:19Although they cause chaos,
33:21the werewolves
33:22never reap the havoc
33:23Skorzeny hoped for,
33:25killing as few
33:27as a thousand allies
33:28and their collaborators.
33:30The reality is
33:32that they don't have
33:33the resources,
33:34that they don't have
33:35the means of organization.
33:38Even the fanatical Skorzeny
33:40realizes that resistance
33:41is futile.
33:44So he turns his efforts
33:45into saving his fellow
33:47Nazi commanders
33:47from the occupying forces,
33:49setting up the most
33:50sophisticated underground
33:52escape network
33:53the world has ever seen.
33:56a network with the sole aim
33:58of spreading
33:59Hitler's dream
34:00of Jewish genocide
34:01around the world.
34:04Many German officers
34:05head to Egypt
34:06where they are reunited
34:08with Arab Fuhrer
34:09Al Husseini.
34:11Together,
34:12they will launch
34:13a new era
34:14of terror.
34:22As Russian soldiers
34:24storm Berlin
34:25in April 1945,
34:27the war with Germany
34:28is over.
34:30In his bunker,
34:31Adolf Hitler is dead.
34:33But thousands
34:34of his faithful disciples
34:35are making plans
34:36to spread the Nazi virus
34:38throughout the world.
34:411945 represented
34:43what many saw
34:44as zero hour.
34:46A time now dedicated
34:47to reconstruction.
34:49However,
34:50there was very much
34:51a post-war legacy
34:52in terms of
34:54what happened
34:55to the former
34:55Nazi intelligence officers
34:57and agents afterwards.
35:00Hitler's final orders
35:01to his favorite commando,
35:03Otto Skorzeny,
35:04was to lead
35:05a highly trained
35:06Nazi terrorist army
35:07to wage war
35:08from an Alpine mountain stronghold.
35:13But Skorzeny decides
35:14the game is up.
35:16It's time
35:16for Plan B.
35:19Skorzeny is holed up
35:20in the Alps.
35:21He's got kind of
35:22guerrilla units
35:22scattered throughout
35:23the area.
35:24But he decides,
35:25I don't want to pursue
35:26this into the post-war period.
35:28And he gives up,
35:29presents himself
35:30to the Americans.
35:32The battle
35:33may be lost,
35:34but for Skorzeny,
35:36the war is far from over.
35:38From his prison cell,
35:39he marshals
35:40his intelligence networks
35:41to activate escape routes
35:43for senior SS soldiers
35:45and scientists.
35:47The reason he was able
35:47to do that,
35:48because he was already
35:49running agents into Italy
35:51when the war was still going on,
35:53running his own agents.
35:54I have to emphasize,
35:55not for the Reich,
35:55but for himself.
35:57Called rat lines,
35:59Skorzeny's escape routes
36:00see hundreds of dangerous Nazis
36:02slip through the Allied lines
36:04to safety.
36:06Many, including Adolf Eichmann,
36:08chief of the Gestapo
36:09Heinrich Mueller,
36:10and Dr. Death Eribert Heim
36:12are on the Allies'
36:14most wanted list.
36:17Skorzeny uses Nazi cash
36:19and treasure ransacked
36:20during the war
36:21to secure forged documents
36:23and pay off people
36:24to ease their escape.
36:26He was able to use
36:27these finances
36:27to get forged documents
36:29and to pay off people
36:30along the rat lines
36:31to get them out of the country.
36:32So like a mafia don,
36:34was still able to control
36:35the organization
36:36from even within prison cells.
36:42Eventually, in 1948,
36:44with the help
36:45of his former werewolf officers
36:47posing as American officials,
36:49Skorzeny himself
36:50slips out of prison
36:52into the night.
36:54He'd had the option,
36:55actually,
36:55of escaping
36:55quite a bit earlier.
36:57He was hoping the Allies
36:57would exonerate him,
36:58which they did.
36:59But then he finds,
37:00well, the Germans
37:01are still after me
37:02on denazification grounds.
37:03So he takes off.
37:07After hiding out in France,
37:10Skorzeny uses his networks
37:11to go first to Spain or Italy
37:13and then Argentina.
37:16His game plan
37:17is bearing fruit.
37:18Having secured the freedom
37:19of so many dangerous
37:20Nazi colleagues,
37:22he now has a skilled group
37:23of Nazi elite
37:24ready to transform
37:26Hitler's post-war terrorist vision
37:28into a professional
37:29global business.
37:31After the war was over
37:33and the werewolf operation
37:34was floundering,
37:36Skorzeny thought,
37:37well, I can continue
37:37the same philosophy
37:38but do it in other places
37:40around the world
37:40where I have much more
37:41freedom of action
37:42and essentially farm out
37:44the terrorism
37:45all around the world.
37:47Skorzeny hires
37:48his former henchmen
37:49from the SS
37:50and creates networks
37:51to move money and guns
37:53through black markets.
37:55As the months pass,
37:57Hitler's darling
37:58operates with increasing freedom
37:59as the Allies' attention
38:01turns from the Nazis
38:02to a chilling new threat
38:04from the East.
38:08By 1950,
38:10there's a new enemy,
38:11that's the Soviet Union,
38:12there's now Cold War
38:13and that kind of hunger
38:15for revenge
38:16has just played itself out
38:18to a large extent.
38:21Inevitably,
38:22in 1953,
38:24Scarface Skorzeny himself
38:25arrives in Egypt.
38:28He's greeted
38:29like a national hero
38:30by his old colleagues
38:31from the Third Reich
38:32and is immediately appointed
38:35as Egyptian leader
38:36General Naguib's
38:38personal security advisor.
38:42He wastes no time
38:43in setting up
38:44an Arab terror division,
38:46turning dispossessed
38:47Palestinian hotheads
38:48into Arab werewolves.
38:51Skorzeny used
38:52the same training
38:53that he used
38:53with the werewolves
38:54back in 1944 and 1945
38:56to train the guerrillas
38:58and the terrorists
38:58in Egypt
38:59in the 1950s
39:00and 1960s.
39:02Among them
39:03is al-Husseini's
39:04alleged cousin,
39:05Yasser Arafat.
39:07The master
39:08and the pupil
39:09will become
39:10lifelong friends
39:11as Skorzeny
39:12schools Arafat
39:13in the art of terror.
39:15I think that Arafat
39:16learned a great deal
39:18from Skorzeny.
39:19He learned about
39:20doing assassinations
39:21and bombings
39:21and terror activities.
39:23The Nazi commandos
39:23were considered
39:24the best in that business
39:25and so Arafat
39:27was able to run
39:28his operations
39:29according to the
39:30Nazi template
39:30for terror operations.
39:32A diehard
39:33anti-Semite,
39:34Arafat would rise
39:35to head the terrorist
39:36organization,
39:38the PLO.
39:39Skorzeny
39:40and al-Husseini
39:41are spreading
39:42Hitler's genocidal
39:43madness
39:43throughout Egypt
39:45and Palestine.
39:46You had the Nazis
39:48supporting a nascent
39:49Palestine liberation movement,
39:52sending commandos
39:53and terrorists
39:53into Palestine,
39:54and you also had
39:55the Nazis
39:56developing rockets
39:57and other types
39:58of technology
39:59the Egyptians
39:59could use
40:00against Israel
40:00as well.
40:02Germany may have
40:03lost the war,
40:04but the young
40:05Jewish state
40:06of Israel
40:06is far from free
40:08of the tyranny
40:09of Nazi hatred.
40:11In June 1956,
40:14a revolution
40:15finally ousts
40:16British troops
40:16from Egyptian soil,
40:18and the fervent
40:19Hitler admirer,
40:20Gamal Abdel Nasser,
40:22is now in charge.
40:26and Otto Skorzeny,
40:28the man once known
40:29as the most dangerous
40:30Nazi in the world,
40:31takes the regime change
40:32in his stride
40:33and is appointed
40:34as the new president's
40:36military advisor.
40:38Egypt in the 1950s
40:40is a very interesting
40:41but volatile place.
40:44Nasser has just
40:44taken power
40:45by a military coup.
40:47He has various
40:49internal opposition groups
40:51that he is trying
40:51to contend against.
40:53Skorzeny's army
40:55of Nazi sidekicks
40:56start to train
40:57the increasingly
40:58anti-Jewish regime
40:59in the art
41:00of werewolf sabotage
41:01and terror.
41:03Ever since
41:04the Arab-Israeli war
41:05of 1948,
41:07small bands
41:08of Palestinians
41:08had been making
41:09raids on Israel
41:10to steal food
41:11and reclaim farm equipment
41:13lost in the conflict.
41:15But under Skorzeny's influence,
41:18the raids turn vicious,
41:19targeting the Jewish population.
41:24The Nazis have finally
41:26got a foothold
41:27in the Middle East
41:28and now they can launch
41:29an anti-Semitic jihad
41:31that will plague the world
41:32for decades to come.
41:43Egypt,
41:44the mid-1950s.
41:48Skorzeny's Nazi commandos
41:50are providing the training
41:51to continue the genocide
41:53they started in Europe
41:54a decade earlier.
41:58He masterminds attacks
42:00by the terror group
42:01the Fedayin
42:02with the sole intention
42:04of killing Jews
42:05in the Gaza Strip.
42:08There were a number
42:09of raids conducted
42:10by the PLO
42:11into Gaza
42:13and into the West Bank.
42:15which were
42:16organized by Skorzeny
42:18and his people
42:19out of Cairo.
42:21260 Israelis
42:23are killed
42:24or injured
42:24in 1955 alone.
42:27The Fedayin
42:29build on the psychological
42:30lessons
42:30from the panic
42:31the werewolves created
42:33in post-war Germany.
42:36Indiscriminately opening fire
42:37on civilian buses,
42:39trains,
42:40synagogues
42:41and workers
42:42and workers
42:42in fields.
42:46And a whole new
42:47generation of Nazis
42:48are rallying
42:49to this fresh
42:50anti-Semitic cause.
42:52The Palestinian cause
42:54attracted not only Nazis
42:55who had fought
42:56in World War II
42:57but they were also
42:58attracting American
42:59neo-Nazis,
43:00younger people
43:01who had not served
43:02in World War II
43:02and they were actually
43:04also being trained
43:04by Skorzeny's people
43:05and participating
43:07in raids
43:07into Gaza.
43:11By 1960,
43:13under Hitler admirer
43:14President Gamal
43:15Abdel Nasser,
43:16Egypt is fully molded
43:18into the shape
43:18of a Nazi state.
43:20All political opposition
43:22parties are banned,
43:24their leaders killed
43:25or imprisoned
43:25and all 75,000
43:28Egyptian Jews
43:29are expelled
43:30or killed.
43:34With his seeds
43:35of hatred sown,
43:36Hitler's commando
43:37Otto Skorzeny
43:38relocates to Spain.
43:41From there,
43:43he starts running
43:44a Middle East
43:44terror network
43:45under the name
43:46the Paladin Group.
43:48Among the group's
43:49many clients,
43:51none other than
43:52Muammar Gaddafi
43:53and Saddam Hussein.
43:55Both Saddam Hussein
43:56and Gaddafi
43:57had opponents
43:58to their regime.
43:59They wanted to put down
44:00as quickly as possible.
44:01People of the Paladin Group
44:02are excellent for this.
44:04Gaddafi,
44:04he admired Skorzeny,
44:06he admired the Nazis
44:06very much.
44:07The fact that they
44:08lost the war
44:09didn't seem to matter
44:10to these other individuals
44:11because they also felt
44:12like they were underdogs
44:13as well.
44:17In the 60s and 70s,
44:19there is a spreading
44:20network of non-state
44:21terrorist organizations
44:22from the Skorzeny-trained
44:24PLO
44:25to Hamas,
44:27Hezbollah,
44:28Jama' Islamiyah
44:29and, of course,
44:30Al-Qaeda.
44:32All bear the hallmarks
44:34of their terrorist forefathers,
44:35the werewolves.
44:38The werewolf operation
44:39is very similar
44:40to what you have today
44:41in cells being run
44:42by Al-Qaeda,
44:43for instance.
44:44They are not
44:44in constant communication.
44:45They're not getting paychecks
44:47from the central government.
44:48The only central command structure
44:49is their ideology.
44:52The terror tactics
44:53that continue to this day
44:55trace directly back
44:5670 years
44:57to Otto Skorzeny
44:58and the Nazis of Egypt.
45:01They gave birth
45:02to a world of jihad.
45:06Skorzeny was very much
45:07involved in taking
45:08the werewolf operation
45:09and going global with it.
45:12The idea of using terror
45:13as a weapon
45:14of otherwise incapable people
45:17who wanted to conduct
45:18military operations
45:19against an enemy.
45:22Anti-personnel
45:23and vehicle roadside bombs,
45:25part of the werewolf armory,
45:27are a common tactic
45:28in the recent wars
45:29in Afghanistan and Iraq.
45:36The U.S. openly acknowledges
45:38the link between
45:39modern-day terrorism
45:40and werewolf methodology
45:42and in 2003
45:43looked to World War II
45:45for answers to the insurgency
45:47in Iraq.
45:48The Bush administration
45:50were very interested
45:51in the werewolves
45:52because once the insurgency
45:54begins in Iraq,
45:55they see that
45:56as a parallel.
45:57These kinds of diehards
45:59who go down swinging
46:00when a totalitarian regime
46:02is defeated.
46:04In addition to these flames
46:06of terror lit by the Nazis,
46:08the Middle East
46:09is also still reeling
46:10from the anti-Semitic
46:11loathing they spread.
46:14To this day,
46:16Mein Kampf
46:17is one of the best-selling books
46:18in the Arab world.
46:21The main legacy
46:22of Nazi ideology
46:24in the Middle East today
46:26is Jew hatred.
46:29If you compare
46:30the anti-Semitism
46:31in the Middle East
46:32with the anti-Semitism
46:34of the Nazis,
46:35you see very, very
46:37many similar symbols
46:39and pictures.
46:41It must be
46:42the long-term influence
46:44of Nazi propaganda.
46:47And the victims
46:49of this propaganda
46:50are getting younger
46:51and younger.
46:52The television stations
46:54of Hamas
46:55and Hezbollah
46:56have an anti-Semitic
46:59kids program.
47:00They brought in
47:01in the program
47:02a big mouse,
47:03but a mouse
47:04who loves
47:05to kill Jews.
47:18Even though
47:19Hitler's favorite commando
47:21Otto Skorzaini
47:22and the Arab Fuhrer
47:23Al-Husseini
47:24died back in the 70s,
47:27through the work
47:28of these two monsters,
47:30Hitler's ideals
47:31live on.
47:34Al-Husseini
47:36spreading his
47:36anti-Semitic poison
47:38across North Africa
47:39and the Middle East.
47:41Skorzaini
47:42training young hotheads
47:44to kill innocent people.
47:47The Nazi legacy
47:49continues to blight
47:51our world.
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