- 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 FrËres 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 emigrÈs. 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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