Historical Analysis of Nazi-Jewish Relations

Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time.

He wanted to expel the Jews,

expel the Jews, expel the Jews.

A group of Zionists at the same time

was quietly negotiating an agreement with the Nazis

to allow the immigration of German Jews and

the transfer of their assets to Palestine.

That deal, reported in August 1933, was the transfer agreement.

Palestine, sparsely settled by Jews at the time,

was radically changed as a result.

I lived in Palestine from 1933 to 1936.

And we saw, every week, transports of German Jews

coming to settle in Palestine.

German-Jewish settlement of Palestine was, for a time, official Nazi policy.

These photos of Jewish life in Palestine,

along with a lengthy text, appeared in 1934.

In the Berlin paper, Daron Grimm,

the publisher, Hitler's propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels.

A Nazi visits Palestine was the title of the multi-part series.

A medal was struck by Goebbels in commemoration.

On one side, the swastika.

On the other, the Star of David.

Hitler demanded one concession for the transfer agreement,

that the call for a boycott of the Reich,

raised by Jews here and elsewhere, be rejected by the Zionists.

The Zionists made their concession.

To be continued...