- Nazis and Jews
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- At the 1958 World Jewish Conference in Geneva, Dr.
Nahum Goldman, President of the World Zionist Organization, warned Jews
that "a current decline of overt anti-Semitism might constitute a new
danger to Jewish survival... The disappearance of anti-Semitism has had
a very negative effect on our internal life."
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- Goldman was not the first Jew to recognize the common
ground between Zionists and anti-Semites. In fact, ever since Zionism
was invented by a Jewish journalist in the late nineteenth century,
Zionist-inclined Jewish leaders have actually cooperated with
anti-Semites, including Hitler's Nazis, in the prevention of Jewish
assimilation.
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- The founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, himself entered
into negotiations with the anti-Semitic Tsarist Minister of the Interior
Plehve, who promised the Tsarist Government's "moral and material
assistance" to the Zionist movement.
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- In 1937 the anti-Semitic Polish government sent the
Michael Lepecki expedition to Madagascar, accompanied by Jewish
community representatives, to study the possibility of sending Poland's
entire Jewish population there, in order to set up a Zionist state on
the island.
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- The possibility of setting up a Zionist state on
Madagascar (which was in fact first suggested by Herzl himself) also
received consideration from the Nazi government. In 1938, Hitler agreed
to send the President of the Reichsbank, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, to London
for discussions with Jewish representatives Lord Bearsted and a Mr.
Rublee of New York. The plan failed only due to intransigence on the
part of the British government.
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- Another prominent Jewish leader, Haim Arlossorof,
Secretary of the Histadrut, was also involved in similar negotiations
with the Nazis according to the Protocols of the Knesset of 30.6.59 (the
Israeli Hansard).
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- By the late 1930's, the German Jews were riding on a
new peak of Zionist fervour, courtesy of the Nazi regime. Zionist
organizations received three times as much in contributions in 1935-6 as
they did in 1931-2, and the circulation of the Zionist weekly Judische
Rundschau rose from 5,000 to 40,000. The Editor of the paper was the
first to coin and make popular the slogan about the yellow star which
Jews were later forced to wear: "Wear it with pride, the Yellow Star!"
This was more than six years before Jews were forced to wear the star by
law.
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- There is even a certain amount of evidence to show
that Hitler was financed by Jewish interests. In his book, I Paid
Hitler, Thyssen admitted that the Nazis themselves had been obliged to
recognize the services rendered by the Jewish Simon Hirschland Bank in
Essen, which had arranged Wall Street loans for Hitler through another
Jewish bank in New York, Goldman Sachs & Co. For a long time no-one
dared lay hands on the Simon Hirschland Bank, despite pressure from the
extremist element of the Nazi Party.
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- And during the Nuremberg trials, Hjalmar Schacht
requested that a Mr. Jeidels be called from America as a defence
witness. According to a war-time edition of Time (3.7.42), Jeidels had
been one of Schacht's closest cronies before the war. Hitler had even
let Jeidels act as his deputy at the famous Standstill Agreement. By
1942 he had become a partner in the Jewish Lazard FrĖres bank in
Manhattan, but still "had access to choice Continental pipelines into
Hitlerism."
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- But probably the most bizarre liaison between
Hitlerism and Zionism was in Austria and Hungary, where prominent Jewish
leaders actively cooperated with the Nazis in registering the Jewish
population and keeping order in the ghettoes, in return for allowing the
emigration to Palestine of thousands of young Jewish pioneers. The Nazis
even agreed to set up agricultural schools for the would-be emigrants in
Austria. This entire affair is described in rhapsodical terms in The
Secret Roads by Jon and David Kimche, two prominent British Zionists.
They describe how two young Jewish settlers made their way back to
Berlin and Vienna in 1938 in order to put the plan to the Gestapo. Adolf
Eichmann readily agreed to the scheme, and even expelled a group of nuns
from a convent to provide a training farm for young Jewish emigrČs. By
the end of 1938, about a thousand Jews were being provided with training
in these establishments. The two emissaries were allowed to move freely
about Germany. They were even allowed to visit internment camps and
select the most able Jewish youngsters for training and subsequent
passage to Palestine.
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- Eichmann himself admitted to being a staunch Zionist,
ever since he had studied Herzl's classic, The Jewish State (original
title An Address to the Rothschilds) as part of his S.S. training.
Eichmann attended, in civilian clothes, the commemoration ceremony of
the thirty-fifth anniversary of Herzl's death. And in 1939 he protested
against the desecration of Herzl's grave in Vienna. In 1937 Eichmann had
visited Palestine on the formal invitation of a Zionist official. But he
had scarcely arrived in the territory whereupon he was deported to Egypt
by the British authorities. In Cairo, he was visited by a representative
of one of the Jewish terrorist organizations Hagannah.
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- Even well into the war, in 1944, Eichmann still
liaised with his Zionist friends. He made a deal with Dr. Rudolf
Kastner, a leader of the Budapest Jewish community, that several
thousand prominent Zionists would be allowed to emigrate to Palestine in
return for Kastner keeping order amongst those who were being shipped to
concentration camps.
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- The Kimche brothers paid tribute to Eichmann's efforts
on behalf of the Jews in The Secret Roads. "Eichmann may go down in
history as one of the arch murderers of the Jewish people, but he
entered the lists as an active worker in the rescue of the Jews from
Europe." They go on to point out that the Zionist agents in Europe
regarded the British as "the chief enemy," not Germany.
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- From Let My People Go, Empirical Publications,
Northern Ireland c. 1976. Authorship unknown. Names of Jews are shown in
bold face throughout the publication.
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