Their solution was NOT the extermination of the Jews, but the deportation of said people.! Under the havarra transfer which was in place right up until the outbreak of war made it logistically impossible, this agreement between judea and the germans ment that tens of thousands of Jews were successfully deported to palastine WITH THEIR WEALTH INTACT. When war made this plan impossible to continue, they were rounded up and put into internment camps and put to work. The germans would have restarted the havarra transfer after the war, which sadly didn't work
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The original plan was to send them to the island of Madagascar but the French and British had other ideas so the germans settled for palastine. As long as they were out, the plan suited both the Jews and the German's. The havarra transfer is readily researchsble, a commemorative coin was even created with the star of David on one side and the Swastika on the other side.
HAVAARA AGREEMENT, 1933: CONTROVERSIAL AGREEMENT TO FACILITATE EMIGRATION OF GERMAN JEWS TO PALESTINE
In the summer of 1933, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the German Zionist Federation, and the German Economics Ministry drafted a plan meant to allow German Jews emigrating to Palestine to retain some of the value of their property in Germany by purchasing German goods for the Yishuv, which would redeem them in Palestine local currency. This scheme, known as the Transfer Agreement or Ha’avarah, met the needs of all interested parties: German Jews, the German economy, and the Mandatory Government and the Yishuv in Palestine. The Transfer Agreement has been the subject of ramified research literature.1 Many Jews were critical of the Agreement from the very outset. The negotiations between the Zionist movement and official representatives of Nazi Germany evoked much wrath. In retrospect, and in view of what we know about the annihilation of European Jewry, these relations between the Zionist movement and Nazi Germany seem especially problematic. Even then, however, the negotiations and the agreement they spawned were profoundly controversial in broad Jewish circles. For this reason, until 1935 the Jewish Agency masked its role in the Agreement and attempted to pass it off as an economic agreement between private parties.
One of the German authorities’ principal goals in negotiating with the Zionist movement was to fragment the Jewish boycott of German goods. Although in retrospect we know the boycott had only a marginal effect on German economic development in the 1930s,2 at the time it was perceived as a genuine threat.
Correspondence between Heinrich Wolff, the German consul in Palestine, and the German Foreign Ministry shows that shattering the boycott was a key motive for the German authorities in concluding the Transfer Agreement.3 In the absence of precise information concerning the Yishuv’s standing in the international boycott movement, some tended to believe that a considerable economic impact could be achieved by concludingacontractwiththePalestinianYishuv. Nobodydoubtedthemoralweight that breaking the boycott in the Yishuv would carry for world Jewry.
The Jewish movement to boycott German goods was foremost among the efforts of international Jewish organizations on behalf of German Jewry, and Jewish communities worldwide, especially in the United States, France, and Great Britain, took part in it. The boycott movement in Poland was particularly strong and become pre-eminent in Jewish actions against Nazi Germany.4 In addition to the boycott, Polish Jewry conducted a sweeping press campaign to turn public opinion against Germany and offered active assistance to German Jews who had fled to Poland in search of refuge. German Jews had mixed feelings about these initiatives, lest they anger the German authorities and cause their situation to worsen. The boycott movement was widely perceived as a threat to the interests of German Jews, for it might cause the Germans to toughen their own anti-Jewish economic boycott. It was also considered a potential impediment to the Transfer Agreement, an arrangement that served the basic interests of German Jewry with respect to economics and emigration.
The events of the 1930s in Germany created a strong relationship between German and Polish Jewry, both of which found themselves threatened by Nazi policies. However, while German Jewry had to contend with the end of Jewish emancipation in Germany and the intrusion of the new regime into every aspect of their lives, Polish Jews struggled with the direct and indirect implications of Nazi rule in Germany for the status of European Jewry in general and Polish Jewry in particular. Because they faced different problems, German Jewry and Polish Jewry leaned toward different political solutions. German Jewry had to formulate survival tactics vis-à-vis the Nazi government of…
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