World War II

Visit of German Officers in French North Africa in January-February 1939

The document is categorized as RW 5 in BA-MA Freiburg military Archive

It contains a report on a visit of German Officers in French North Africa in January-February 1939

P 1: The French officers express Anti-semitic tends and understanding for the Nazism

P. 8: One should accent in talks with Arabs that Germany has never fought against  Islam, and that the fight against Judaism is legitimate.

The situtation in palastina during the WWII

.File  number RL 2 of the German military archives in Freiburg reporting the years 1941-44 
The file  contains reports of the situation in October 1943  in Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and detail the political and strategic importance of these cities 
There are also reports of aerial bombardment of the Italian Air Force over these cities during the summer of 1942. The reports detail the vulnerability

Anti-Semitic propaganda and confiscation of money from Jews in Tunisia

File  number 19-VIII RH from German military archives containing various reports years 1941-43
Document dated 09/06/1941 with the analysis of the German armored forces of the situation in North Africa
                    The British are in distress, concentrated in Egypt over the Nile and are not able to attack Libya
 "Take advantage of the situation and take the city of Tobruk in Libya until mid-November 1941"
-List of the military needs to attack Tobruk

Report on forced labour in Tunis

Bundesarchiv-Militararchiv in Freiburg - BA-MA Freiburg Research Arabia, file number RH 2 Operationsabteilung
- Executive Order on the German attack on Tripolitania an Cyrenaica in Libya
- Political-Economic report on Tunis, including forced labour mannered by the Jewish community  and founded by the SS and SD.
- Combination of Arab Forces in the German Army
- Military maneuvers aiming to conquer Palestine   

German military plans to conquer in North Africa toward Israel (Palestine) and Egypt

Bundesarchiv-Militararchiv in Freiburg - BA-MA Freiburg Research Arabia, file number RW4
PP 2-3: Documents on "Unit F", propaganda unit operated in Syria and Palestine. Report on an Airplane filled with  propaganda in Arabic passing through Athens.
PP 19-21: German military plan to take over the middle east through Iraq, Iran and the Caucasus to Join forces with the German Army in Southern Soviet Union.
P 56: Report for August 1942  describing the panic among the Jewish Population in Palestine due to German Advancement into Egypt.   

Preparing the German Army occupation toward the Suez Canal

Bundesarchiv-Militararchiv in Freiburg - BA-MA Freiburg Research Arabia, file number RH 2 Operationsabteilung
The file deals with the advancement into Cyrenaica (Libya) as a preparation step to taking over Egypt and the Suez Canal. a large portion of the file is dedicated to the Jews in Syria and Palestine and their political power around the world.
PP 49-52: Report from August 1942 on the Jews of Alexandria fleeing from Rommel's forces as they advanced  into Egypt. It written that there are no more Jews in Alexandria.

Instructions of German propaganda in North Africa

German Foreign Office Archive File R-102974
P. 4- Broadcasting Propaganda on the radio.
P. 6- Distribution of books and propaganda materials on subject related to Islam and Nazism, HitlerJunge   and Arab-German dictionaries
P. 9- Orders Regarding Propaganda for Arabs:
A. Religious with Anti-Semitic and Anti-Capitalistic  motives  
B. Presenting Germany as the defender against the Jewish - Bolshevik conspiracy
P. 11- Propaganda aiming for American and British on the devastating effect Jews have on the war and its continuum.