Atlas company
Enterprise Atlas was the code name for an operation by a special command unit of the Waffen SS that took place in October 1944. Five soldiers took part: three who had previously been members of the Templar sect in the Mandate Palestine and two Palestinian Arabs who had worked closely with the Mufti of Jerusalem , Amin al-Husseini . Detailed information on the operation was first released in 2001 by the British secret service MI5 .
The mission aimed to establish a news gathering base in Mandate Palestine, send information to Germany , and recruit and arm anti-British Palestinians by buying their support with gold . It also aimed to increase tension between Jews and Arabs, thereby creating problems for the British Mandate authorities.
The plan failed because three of the participants were arrested by the British Transjordan Frontier Force near Jericho a few days after landing on October 6th . The German commander Frederick Deininger was captured in 1946 and the fifth, Hasan Salama , managed to escape.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nazis planned Palestine subversion . July 5, 2001 ( bbc.co.uk [accessed June 25, 2019]).
- ↑ MI5 | Otto Skorzeny. June 11, 2011, accessed June 25, 2019 .
- ↑ The Milwaukee Journal - Google News archive search. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .