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NOTE: THIS S NOT TO DEFEND THE NAZI'S, but a brief history lesson here is required.

Yes, the Nazi’s committed serious atrocities, it was not, however, their idea.

After the U. S. led battle in the Middle East prior to invading Italy, we ran the Mufti out of Iraq. He was the uncle of Saddam.

The German’s entered into the area in a deal with the Baathists (Iraq was one a Syria still is a Baathist country).

He fled to Germany. The Germans were in the process of expelling the Jews to the Holy Land, NOT killing them. As part of the ‘deal’ for support and hopes of turning things around and re-taking the Middle East the Mufti required NO expulsions, death to the Jews.

Yes, the Nazi’s committed horrible atrocities, in the name of and on behalf of the Muslim leaders.

In many respects, the war we are fighting now is simply the final culmination of WWII since we never finished then, defeating the Baathist, instead moving on and leaving that behind.

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I'm sorry but this post is completely wrong. Hitler was the biggest anti-semite of all time. He stated in his book Mein Kampf that he blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in WW1, the Depression in Germany in 1920's which was worse than the US Depression and every other ill he could imagine. He also stated in his book that he wanted to exterminate all the Jews.
The Nazis were killing Jews from the beginning of WWII if not before September 1939. In fact, concentration camps started before 1939. The US invaded North Africa in November 1942 in an operation called Operation Torch. Truth is that US forces never entered the Middle East in WWII; only North Africa. The UK held Egypt and Isreal, called Palestine, during WWII. Syria and Irag were French colonies before WWII and were not largely occupied in WWII. The French briefly reclaimed them after WWII, but left by 1947-48.
No Iragi had anything to do with or caused the Holocaust.