Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
From the time of his capture by French soldiers May 1945 to his “escape” to Egypt in May 1946, Haj Amin al-Husseini was held under house arrest near Paris by the French government. This chapter draws on files of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to offer a detailed account of Husseini’s conversations with French officials; France’s rejection of Britain’s modest efforts to have him extradited; the French Foreign Ministry’s hopes that lenient treatment of “the Mufti” would meet with approval in the Arab states; and Husseini’s expression of gratitude to France.
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