How where Muslims and Arabs treated during the Holocaust?

by Khalil_Kiba

If there were any Muslims or Arabs in Europe how did the Nazis treat them? Where they put in camps or left alone?

commiespaceinvader

I have written before on the subject of Muslims and Nazi Germany here and the summary is that Nazi Germany's relationship with Muslims is multi-faceted and varied and included pretty much the whole range of policies, from systematic murder of "asiatic" Soviet POWs to collaboration where it seemed expedient to the Nazi regime. Muslims in countries that were affected by Nazi occupation such as Bosnia and Albania had a vastly different experience than Arab Muslims, who aside from North Africa had barely any relations with Nazi Germany at all (aside from propaganda directed at them). It even went so far as some Soviet Muslim leaders calling for jihad against Nazi Germany while at the same time, some Bosnian Muslims sought their salvation by collaborating with the Nazis in the form of the Handjar Division. Hence, a distinct policy towards all Muslims by the Nazi regime can not really be ascertained. Rather, there was a multitude of policies highly dependent on the historical context. And for all the politicization of the the subject, alleging an "alliance" between Islam and the Nazis, history shows a completely different picture.

Khalil_Kiba

Thanks for the information this is really interesting and i will continue to read up on this.