Germany has insisted it was responsible for the Holocaust, after Israel's prime minister claimed a Palestinian leader told the Nazis to kill Europe's Jews.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germans were "very clear in our minds" that the Nazis were responsible. Benjamin Netanyahu had said Hitler had only wanted to expel Jews from Europe, but that Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini told him: "Burn them." His remarks have been condemned by Israeli historians and politicians.

Speaking alongside Mrs Merkel in Berlin, Mr Netanyahu said "no-one should deny that Hitler was responsible for the Holocaust". But on Tuesday speech at the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, Mr Netanyahu claimed Husseini had provided the idea.

"Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time - he wanted to expel the Jews," he told the congress. "And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said: 'If you expel them, they'll all come here.' "'So what should I do with them?' he [Hitler] asked. He [Husseini] said: 'Burn them.'"

Who was Haj Amin al-Husseini?

Husseini, who died in 1974, was a Palestinian nationalist leader who led violent campaigns against Jews and the British authorities in what was then British Mandate Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s.

He fled the territory in 1937, but continued his campaign to oppose British plans to partition it into a Jewish state and an Arab one, allying himself with the Nazis during World War Two.

Husseini met Hitler in Berlin in November 1941, when he tried to persuade the Nazi leader to declare his support for the creation of an Arab state, according to German press reports at the time.

Husseini was sought for suspected war crimes but never appeared at Nuremberg, where post-war trials of Nazi war criminals were held.

Mr Netanyahu's comments came amid a wave of stabbing and shooting attacks - several of them fatal - on Israelis by Palestinians, and one apparent revenge stabbing by an Israeli.

Israeli security forces have also clashed with rioting Palestinians, leading to deaths on the Palestinian side. The violence has also spread to the border with Gaza. 'Not true'
But the prime minister has faced a barrage of criticism at home for his remarks. The chief historian at Israel's memorial to the Holocaust said they were factually incorrect.

"You cannot say that it was the mufti who gave Hitler the
idea to kill or burn Jews," Professor Dina Porat from the Yad
Vashem memorial told the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth . Opposition leader Isaac Herzog wrote on his Facebook page that the prime minister's remark "minimises the Holocaust, Nazism and... Hitler's part in our people's terrible disaster".

Palestine Liberation Organisation's Secretary General Saeb Erekat said in a statement : "It is a sad day in history when
the leader of the Israeli government hates his neighbour so
much that he is willing to absolve the most notorious war
criminal in history, Adolf Hitler, of the murder of six million Jews."

"They were never a Palestinian people".... "I think the Palestines are responsible for the Holocaust" -Netanyahu(World's best hypocrite)

Idrismusty97:
"They were never a Palestinian people".... "I think the Palestines are responsible for the Holocaust" -Netanyahu(World's best hypocrite)

alaoeri:

He's kinda confuse or looking for a way to justify Israeli invasion of Palestine.

coolhumble:
And thousands of people died in my country but we see it as nothing while israel could not get over the death of their people even after many years.

SovietBomber:
@Idrismusty97, this is the same way you people like to twist things in Nigeria to blame the Igbo.

Boko haram attacks and kills people, they say it is the Igbos masquerading as northerners.

Fulani herdsmen rape/kill/destroy farms/kidnap and they say it was the Igbos not Fulani.

I smh..

Idrismusty97:
If this is true then you should be in support of the Palestinians struggle. The friends of the oppressed are usually the oppressed, Reason why South African a victim of Apartheid is one of Israel most vocal challenger. But idiotïc Igbos(Or biafrans rather) preferred to call them selves "Black Jews" and be friends with the worlds best oppressor. You see why getting your Biafra republic is a long way from now?

Môrons...

ArodeTsolaye:
Palestines are not going anywhere until Biafra are allowed to have their own country. An Independent Palentine should be tied to a restored Biafra. The same muslim monkeys in nigeria who support the killings of Biafrans want us to support an independent muslim Arab state.

Even the arab see them as slavedogs, yet they kill and riots for the arabs. An arab clerics recently called them dogs yet they see their slave status as the will of Allah.

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13vgt1bfp2jhd05g04cc3gpdnnnv54oizg0k

therevelation2:


idris mustapha, you will cry on nairaland. The Operatives have your file and your pictures will be here soon for all to see including your brothers and sisters.

How is FUT Minna?

Signed

The Reminder.

therevelation2:


You need to see the monkey idris mustapha aka idrismusty97, you need to see his large head, his pix will be here soon General......

MrMbaM:


[s] Stop making noise here. Post pix and stop splashing smelly spit everywhere. Shameless coward.[/s]

Idrismusty97:
Did the Grand mufty also told you to burn Palestinian children?

therevelation2:


Get lost foool, you are too small to tell me when to act or not, his pix will be here, you are invited.........

therevelation2:


idris, how is sadiya, kabiru and amina.......?

alaoeri:

He's kinda confuse or looking for a way to justify Israeli invasion of Palestine.

MrMbaM:
[s][/s]

I am a B.astard, and my mother is foolish and ugly?

MrMbaM:
[s][/s]

Your senile father is a fool, you will cry as usual if you try any rubbish. Chukwu Abiama kill yur mother if you dont post pics, the coward dare not try it. Do it and show us why we should not kill your useless father

CC: EbukaObi
Codedslayer
After1

MrMbaM:
[s][/s]

My senile father is a fool, I will cry as usual if I try any rubbish. Chukwu Abiama kill my mother if I dont post pics, I am the coward i dare not try it. I will Do it kill my useless father

CC: EbukaObi
Codedslayer
After1

therevelation2:


Your file is here and we have your pictures, be very careful.....

Signed.

The Reminder.

codedslayer:


Let him try shit.

MrMbaM:
[s][/s]

I must just shut up because I am a shameless coward. No one me never do wells like me serious anymore, I am a broken record.

MrMbaM:


Lmaooo. I The coward now resort to editing post, I am a shameless thing.

ArodeTsolaye:
Palestines are not going anywhere until Biafra are allowed to have their own country. An Independent Palentine should be tied to a restored Biafra. The same muslim monkeys in nigeria who support the killings of Biafrans want us to support an independent muslim Arab state.
Even the arab see them as slavedogs, yet they kill and riots for the arabs. An arab clerics recently called them dogs yet they see their slave status as the will of Allah.
https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13vgt1bfp2jhd05g04cc3gpdnnnv54oizg0k

therevelation2:


I will tagh you when part starts.........lolzzzz

therevelation2:


idris mustapha, you will cry on nairaland. The Operatives have your file and your pictures will be here soon for all to see including your brothers and sisters.

How is FUT Minna?

Signed

The Reminder.

codedslayer:


[s] I hate when i see coward in my mentions. Stop quoting me.[/s]

therevelation2:


You need to see the monkey idris mustapha aka idrismusty97, you need to see his large head, his pix will be here soon General......