Nazi Collaboration with Zionist Movement

I mean, he didn't just sign the deal.

The SS set up training camps so that

Jews, German Jews who were going to go there could be trained to

cope with a

very different sort of country when they got there.

And when the Zionist movement asked, would

the

Nazi government

stop a Jewish

rabbi, the rabbis doing their sermons in Yiddish

and

make them do it in Hebrew, he agreed to that.

They passed a law that said only the Zionist flag and the

swastika were the only flags that could be flown in

Germany. There were an awful lot. And then, of course, they started

selling Mauser pistols to the underground Jewish army.

I mean, so you had right up until the start of

Second World War,

real collaboration. And when, in

July 1937, many senior

Nazis gathered at their foreign office saying we should

stop sending Jews to Palestine because it could create a Jewish

state. In the middle of that meeting, a directive comes specifically

from Hitler saying, no, we will continue with this policy.