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Originally Posted by Rob
I read a book titled, "Inge: A Girl's Journey Through Nazi Europe", and they referenced that several times. You got the wrong dude if you think I read conspiracy theory websites, especially Nazi loving ones. I've heard several scholars suggest Palestine in Hitler's final solution and plans during the Holocaust. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. It won't be the first time.  |
The 'Final Solution' is well documented, it came midway through the war, and that was to build/convert concentration camps into extermination/death camps. To kill every last Jew in Europe. Prior to the Final Solution there were plans to export Jews - one was the Madagascar plan and another, once Hitler defeated Russia, to send the Jews to a settlement in Siberia.
Hitler did want to expel the Jews to anywhere outside Europe before the war, including to Palestine. I don't think you can characterize that as part of the 'final solution'. In 1933 the Nazis made an agreement with the Jewish organizations in Germany to facilitate Jews emigrating to Palestine whereby the Jews had to buy their way out and Germany profited. Here's the details of the deal called the Haavara Agreement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
"The Haavara Agreement was thought among certain circles to be a possible way to rid the country of its supposed "Jewish problem." The head of the Middle Eastern division of the foreign ministry, Werner Otto von Hentig, supported the policy of concentrating Jews in Palestine. Von Hentig believed that if the Jewish population was concentrated in a single foreign entity, then foreign diplomatic policy and containment of the Jews would become easier. Hitler's support of the Haavara Agreement varied throughout the thirties. Initially, Hitler criticized the agreement, but shortly reversed his opinion, and continued to support it, in the face of opposition, through 1939"