Some uninformed defenders of the Holocaust tale declare that
if the Jews hadn't been forced or taken against their will from their homes
and lifestyles, none of this would have never happened even if it were just
the unfortunate death of hundreds of thousands by starvation and typhus.
Very few understand that there were TWO entities that wanted the German,
later European Jews, to emigrate out of Germany and Europe...the German
Nazis and the Zionists. The World Zionist Organization and the American
Jewish Council were adamant that Jews emigrate nowhere else than Palestine.
The Germans had tried to arrange emigration to Madagascar and Uganda but
those possibilities were closed by Jewish organizations. What remained is a
working relationship with the Zionist organizations Irgun and Haganah to
facilitate emigration to Palestine. The British made this difficult.
Edwin
Black, of Jewish heritage, an erudite scholar wrote The Transfer
Agreement: The Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and
Jewish Palestine, published in 1984. Dr. Sybil Milton of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center calls it,
a spellbinding, exciting book. This subject has not been previously
explored. It adds a significant new dimension to our understanding of this
critical era."
Yoav Gelber of the Yad Vashem Israel Holocaust Museum states,
Edwin Black's research is striking in its dimension and scope. The vast
uncovering of source material and its extensive use are almost
overwhelming. He penetrates deep into the political and economic processes
of inter-Jewish relations and into gentile attitudes involving the rescue
of Jews from Nazi rule for the benefit of the Zionist enterprise of Eretz
Yisrael.
Black focuses primarily on the effects of the Zionist elements among
world Jewry which had declared war on Germany by means of a boycott on all
German goods.
Although propagandists attempt to dismiss this amazing event as just a
newspaper headline, it lead to high level negotiations between the German
government and Zionists. Since Jews controlled much of the world's shipping,
they could effectively block German commerce. The terms of the Transfer
Agreement were that the boycott would end in return to the transfer of
German Jews to the Palestine.
The German Chancellor, Heinrich Bruning, had responded to the boycott by
establishing currency restrictions that prevented ANYONE, German or
foreigner, Christian or Jew, from transferring their wealth out of the
country without permission. The restriction was NOT aimed at Jews OR
Christians, but at speculators and hoarders.
At the same time, the British, who controlled the Palestine under a
League of Nations mandate following WW I, limited Jewish entry into
Palestine only to those in possession of at least a thousand pounds (equal
to about $5000 today).
The
Transfer Agreement began to degenerate into a personal feud along tactical
lines. The Mapai or Labor Zionists wanted a communal, collective for a
Jewish elite who would do manual work and farming. The Revisionist Zionists
wanted a mixed urban-rural society based on free enterprise instead of
socialism. Mapai used political intrigue and long-term manipulation whereas
Revisionists were very fascist and impatient. Chaim Arlosoroff headed the
Mapai and Sam Cohen, the Revisionists. Cohen saw personal advantages to the
power he was concentrating in his own hands as a Jewish hero. Arlosoroff was
murdered.
Black's analysis was that the economic relationship with Germany was
indispensable in the creation of the State of Israel. Without Germany and
the Nazis, there would have been no "aliyah," the Return to Jerusalem.
The close alliance of Nazi Germany and the Zionists was even more
probable because many of them were of Jewish heritage.. A German Jewish
schoolteacher, Dietrich Bronder, wrote Before Hitler Came in 1964
in which he documented the Jewish Heritage of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess,
Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering, Dr. Josef Goebbels, Gregor Strasser, Alfred
Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Heinrich Himmler, Reichsminister von Ribbentrop, SS
Leader Reinhard Himmler, and Hitler's bankers, Ritter von Strauss and von
Stein.
In 1974 an Austrian Jew, Henneke Kardel wrote Adolf Hitler: Founder
of Israel:
The cooperation which existed between Heydrich's Gestapo and the Jewish
self-defense league in Palestine, the Haganah, would not hve been closer
if it was not for Eichmann who made it public...the commander of Haganah
was Feivel Polkes, born Poland, whith whom in February 1937, the SD troop
leader Adolf Eichmann met in Berlin in a wine restaurant, Traube, near the
zoo. These two Jews made a brotherly agreement. Polkes the underground
fighter got in writing this assurance from Eichman: 'A body representing
Jews in Germany will exert pressure on those leaving Germany to emigrate
only to Palestine. Such a policy is in the interest of Germany and will be
executed by the Gestapo."
Polkes invited his Jewish "brother", Eichmann, to the land of their
ancestors. When he returned from Palestine, Eichmann wrote,
People of Jewish national circles are very excited about the radical
German politics toward the Jews, as this has increased Jewish population
in Palestine many-fold. In a short time they will become the majority
among the Arabs.
In The Secret Contacts: Zionism and Nazi Germany --1933-1941 by
Klaus Polkehn and serialized in the Journal of Palestine Studies confirms
what Edwin Black had revealed, that on February 28 1937, Feivel Polkes, head
of the Haganah had told Adolf Eichmann that he was interested most of all in
"accelerating Jewish migration to Palestine so that the Jews would obtain a
majority over the Arabs in his country." Polkehn revealed that collaboration
between the Zionists and the Third Reich was cemented by the "Mossad Aliyah
Beth" which had been created by Haganah as an illegal immigration
organization. Pina Ginsburg and Moshe Auerbach, with the blessings of the
Reich, set up offices in Berlin to carry out their immigration activities in
1938.
Jews Jon and David Kimche in Secret Roads wrote that the Mossad
special mission
converged with the intentions of the Nazi government. Only with the
support of the Nazi leaders could the project be carried out on a larger
scale
The Gestapo had discussed with Ginsburg "how to promote and expand
illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine against the will of the British
mandate government.
