Episode 767 • • 1:15:49 - 1:20:29
767: Frontier Science
Benjamin Netanyahu, Adolf Hitler and the Grand Mufti
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked international condemnation by claiming that Adolf Hitler originally only wanted to expel Jews from Europe, but was persuaded to exterminate them by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. Historians and survivors' advocates criticized the remarks as factually incorrect and a distortion of the Holocaust's origins. The hosts discuss the 1941 meeting between Hitler and the Mufti, noting the lack of evidence for Netanyahu's specific claims.