Had Charles Martel not been victorious at Poitiers -already, you see, the world had already fallen into the hands of the Jews, so gutless a thing Christianity! -then we should in all probability have been converted to Mohammedanism [Islam], that cult which glorifies the heroism and which opens up the seventh Heaven to the bold warrior alone. Then the Germanic races would have conquered the world. Christianity alone prevented them from doing so.- Adolf Hitler
50
years ago on this date, March 5, 1965, Johann Von Leers, a Nazi who converted
to Islam, passed away. I will post information about him from Wikipedia and
other links.
Born
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January 25, 1902
Karbow-Vietlübbe, Germany |
Died
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5 March 1965 (aged 63)
Cairo, Egypt |
Allegiance
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Germany
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Service/branch
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Waffen-SS
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Rank
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Sturmbannführer
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Other work
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Convert to Islam
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Johann von Leers (25 January 1902 – 5 March 1965)
was an Alter Kämpfer and an honorary Sturmbannführer
in the Waffen SS in Nazi Germany, where he was also a professor known for his
anti-Jewish polemics. He was one of the most important ideologues of the Third
Reich, serving as a high-ranking propaganda ministry official. He later served
in the Egyptian Information Department, as well as an advisor to Gamal Abdel
Nasser. He published for Goebbels, in Peron's Argentina and for Nasser's Egypt.
He converted to Islam, and changed his name to Omar Amin.
1
Early life and education
Von
Leers was born in Vietlübbe, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany on January 25, 1902.
He studied law at Berlin, Kiel, and Rostock and eventually worked as an attache
in the foreign office. He was involved in the Viking Free Corps. Von Leers
became actively involved in voelkisch politics during the Weimar Republic, and
he joined the NSDAP in 1929. He was a district speaker and leader of the
National Socialist Students' League, and in 1933 signed the Gelöbnis treuester
Gefolgschaft, the "vow of most faithful allegiance" to Adolf Hitler.
2
Career
2.1
Nazi Germany
Von
Leers supported himself writing freelance articles for the NSDAP press, and
joined the Waffen SS in 1936 as a sub-Sturmbannführer, eventually becoming an a
full honorary. He would serve as a professor at the University of Jena. He eventually was summoned
by Joseph Goebbels to work in the propaganda ministry. There he was assigned to
proliferate party propaganda, eventually penning 27 books between 1933-1945.
He
wrote the notorious anti-Semitic tract (published and popular during the Third Reich),
Juden sehen dich an (Jews Are Looking at You). He was fluent in five
languages, including Dutch and Japanese.
Jeffrey
Herf reports that in December 1942, von Leers published an article in Die
Judenfrage, a journal which belonged to the anti-Semitic intellectual
world, entitled "Judaism and Islam as Opposites". As the title
indicates, the author's perspective is Hegelian, presenting Judaism and
Islam in terms of thesis and antithesis. This essay also reveals the
ingratiating National Socialist perspective which von Leers projected on the
Islamic past as well as the intensity of his hatred for Judaism and Jewry. The
following passage is part of the original text:
Mohammed's hostility to the Jews had one result: Oriental Jewry was completely paralyzed. Its backbone was broken. Oriental Jewry effectively did not participate in [European] Jewry's tremendous rise to power in the last two centuries. Despised in the filthy lanes of the mellah (the walled Jewish quarter of a Moroccan city, analogous to the European ghetto) the Jews vegetated there. They lived under a special law (that of a protected minority), which in contrast to Europe did not permit usury or even traffic in stolen goods, but kept them in a state of oppression and anxiety. If the rest of the world had adopted a similar policy, we would not have a Jewish Question (Judenfrage).... As a religion, Islam indeed performed an eternal service to the world: it prevented the threatened conquest of Arabia by the Jews and vanquished the horrible teaching of Jehovah by a pure religion, which at that time opened the way to a higher culture for numerous peoples .... (Quoted in Victor Klemperer' Tagebuch as author of an article "Schuld ist der Jude" in nr.143 of "Freiheitskampf" Review (1943), where he accuses the Jews to have prepared the First World War to destroy the German people: "if the Jews win, our destiny will be that of the polish officers in Katyn".
2.1.1
Realpolitik
Von Leers
was a proponent of realpolitik, advocating a race-free foreign relations
policy on the basis of relationship and alliance. He authored the memo which
led to the exemption of non-Jewish racial minorities from race laws
in the nation in 1934, 1936, and 1937.
2.2
Post-war
In
1945 he fled to Italy, living there for five years, and then moving to
Argentina in 1950 where he continued his propaganda activities. He was praised
by Haj Amin al-Husseini for his loyalty to Arab
nationalism. Thereafter he moved from Argentina to Egypt.
2.2.1
In Nasser's Egypt
Von
Leers was welcomed in Egypt by al-Husseini
and he became the political adviser to the Information Department under Muhammad
Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser. He continued to specialize
in anti-Semitism as head of the Institute for the Study of Zionism, managing
anti-Israeli propaganda. He was a mentor of Ahmed Huber
and networked with Muslim emigres in Hamburg, while
also being an acquaintance of Otto
Ernst Remer in the country.
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