This is worth a read. Steve Silver – The Cairo Connection: Johann von Leers and the Rebirth of Nazi Propaganda:

The man who had once been one of Goebbels’ most loyal foot soldiers died in Cairo on March 5, 1965, at the age of 63. His death was marked by a funeral that reflected his dual identity: it was attended by both former SS officers and high-ranking Egyptian officials. He was given an Islamic funeral under his adopted name, Omar Amin.

Von Leers’ death did not signal the end of his influence; rather, it marked the successful implantation of his Hitlerite worldview into a new era. By the time he was laid to rest in 1965, he had kept the Nazi legacy alive in a way that his peers never managed: he had successfully rehashed 1930s antisemitism into the language of 20th-century anti-colonialism.

His “anti-Zionist” antisemitic propaganda efforts were to become so successful that their repercussions are felt more strongly today than they were in his lifetime, with the indoctrinated totally unaware of the provenance.

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