Amin al-Husseini , SS rank?

[Ustuf.33]

I have read on some biaised internet sources (usually pro-sionist websites, or very poor documented "history" links) that Al Husseini has the SS rank of Gruppenführer.

It seems totally false to me.

[LMA-17]

the info come from Gerald Reitlinger's "The SS: Alibi of A Nation"

[Ustuf.33]

and I guess it is a false information.

this book is old. ANd I am very suspicious with these kind of books, with impressive titles :
"Hitler Foreign executioners" "SS the face of devil" "the truth eveil face of the tragic story of the buddhist volunteers of the SS" , etc

[Rob - wssob2]

I have read on some biaised internet sources (usually pro-sionist websites,...

As opposed to the "anti-sionist" websites, which are as we all know paragons of fact-checking, unbias and truthfullness.

(BTW I think you mean "zionist")

this book is old

So what?

Gerald Reitlinger's The SS: Alibi of A Nation" is one of the most important historical studies on the SS written.

and I guess it is a false information.

Why? It's a well documented fact that al-Husseini met with Himmler on multiple occasions. His living expenses were paid for by the German Foreign Office and the SS (see p.31, Himmler's Bosnian Division by George Lepre)

Given his close collaboration with the SS, it's certainly possible that the SS awarded al-Husseini some sort of honorary (Ehrenführer) rank.

[Ustuf.33]

Rob, where have I have said nationalist or neo-nazi websites are more "secure information" ??

Pro-sionist, anti-sionist, neo nazi etc websites are too much in the sentimental, so I am prudence with them. Of course, it doesn't mean they give ONLY false information.

Why? It's a well documented fact that al-Husseini met with Himmler on multiple occasions. His living expenses were paid for by the German Foreign Office and the SS (see p.31, Himmler's Bosnian Division by George Lepre)

Given his close collaboration with the SS, it's certainly possible that the SS awarded al-Husseini some sort of honorary (Ehrenführer) rank.

I don't judge this book, cause I don't have read it.
But there is one thing that i know : the SS / militaria topic progress quick and a lot since some years. So, I guess a book who was publish first in 1957 can be a little bit old...

For exemple, between 2000 and 2012, the french under german uniform subject have progress a lot!

So, imagine a so HUGE subject like the SS (from a global point of view)

Really, I think al-Husseina was never a SS... I will ask to Michael Miller.

[Ustuf.33]

the answer of Michael D. Miller :

Dear Grégory~

Postwar myth, no doubt about it. No SS file on him, and I'm quite sure no official document denoting him as holding any SS rank has ever come to light.
He met with Himmler several times, and both of them being fanatical anti-Semites, they got along quite well.

[Rob - wssob2]

Thanks Ustuf.33 - I like Mike Miller's response.

al-Husseini is a difficult individual to research because there has been 60+ years of polemics written about him. As English journalist Robert Kent wrote, "Merely to discuss his life is to be caught up in the Arab-Israeli propaganda war." (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini)