Young Germans marched through Haifa shouting Heil Hitler! and Swastika flags were hoisted at
the German consulates in Mandatory Palestine. It was in November 1931 when a non-Jewish German
made the initial contact with Nazi officials in Germany that led to the establishment of a
miniature Third Reich with local NS groups Hitler Youth program and associations for women
teachers and others in Palestine. Approximately 33% of all Palestine-Germans
(Palästina-Deutsche) participated in the NS movement. Until today no extensive research written
in English has been done on this bizarre footnote in history. While previous publications in
German mainly concentrated on the members of the Temple Society this work includes Protestant
and Catholic Germans as well. It focuses on the relationship of Palästina-Deutsche with local
Arabs and Jews. It covers the period of 1933 to 1948 as well as the years between the
establishing of the State of Israel and the departure of the last group of Germans in 1950. At
the end of the book the reader will find a list with more than seven hundred names of those
who joined the NS groups.
