Editing Islam in Germany (section)

===1920s to the 1940s===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1987-004-09A, Amin al Husseini und Adolf Hitler.jpg|right|thumb|Haj [[Amin al-Husseini]] meeting with Adolf Hitler (28 November 1941)]]

The Islamic Institut Ma'ahad-ul-Islam was founded in 1927 and is now known under the name "[[:de:Zentralinstitut Islam-Archiv-Deutschland|Zentralinstitut Islam-Archiv-Deutschland]]" (Central Islamic Archive Institute) and is the oldest such institution in Germany. Shortly after its founding the [[Nazi Party]] came to power the archive was forced to suspend all further work, until after the war.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/zentralinstitut-islam-archiv-ev-wertvolle-islam-sammlung | title=Zentralinstitut Islam-Archiv e.V.: Wertvolle Islam-Sammlung &#124; Qantara.de | date=9 September 2004 }}</ref>
During [[World War II]] [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem]] [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]] energetically recruited Muslims from occupied territories into several divisions of the [[Waffen SS]] (primarily the [[13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)|13th ''Waffen'' Mountain Division of the SS ''Handschar'' (1st Croatian)]] and [[21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg|21st ''Waffen'' Mountain Division of the SS ''Skanderbeg'']]) and some other units.

In [[September 1943]] Hitler specifically decreed that Muslim Germans could be members of the party as well as people of Christian denominations.<ref>Rundschreiben Nr. 124/43, Der Leiter der Partei-Kanzlei, 9/2/43 (“Zugehorigkeit 

von Parteigenossen zum Islam”), NS6/342:64</ref>