Hidden Hitler History

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Roots of Islamic funamentalism lie in Nazi propaganda for Arab world, book claims "Your only hope for rescue is the destruction of the Jews before they destroy you!" Hitler said in a 1942 message, one of thousands broadcast across the Middle East in an attempt to woo the Arab world. In his new book, "Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World", Mr Herf argues that Nazi propagandists offered a message that neatly dovetailed with underlying prejudice. "It is also a product of a mixture of some indigenous currents in the history of Islam with the hatred of democracy, liberalism and the Jews that were so central to National Socialism. Mr Herf uncovered 6,000 transmissions, produced under the propaganda minister Josef Goebbels and sent around the Arab world from 1939 to 1945. The transcripts of the broadcasts were made by the American embassy in Cairo during the war, and classified until 1977 in Washington. "This propaganda campaign comprised an important chapter in the history of the war,"