The Third Reich and the Palestine Question
In order to ensure its racial, ideological, and strategic interests, the Hitler regime actively supported the status quo in Palestine and the Middle East during the interwar period. This included the perpetuation of British imperial power in Palestine, the Jewish National Home (not an independent Jewish state) promised by the Balfour Declaration, and the rejection of Arab self-determination and independence.\ The Third Reich and the Palestine Question is the first comprehensive study of...
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Introduction to the Transaction EditionPreface1Imperial and Weimar Precedents12Early National Socialist Attitudes toward Zionism16The Anti-Semitic Background16Alfred Rosenberg, Zionism and the Conspiracy Theory21The Emergence of Hitler's Attitude toward Zionism263The Development of the Haavara Transfer Agreement29The Economic Background29The Impact of the Anti-German Boycott33Consul-General Wolff and the Role of Palestine36The German Government and the Haavara Transfer Agreement of 1933414The Zionist Connection, 1933-193750The Position of the German Foreign Office50The Role of the SS54The Umschulungslager58Abteilung II/112 and Palestine60Other Interested Agencies645The Role of England in Hitler's Foreign Policy Plans67Theories on Hitler's Englandpolitik67The Formulation of Hitler's Englandpolitik to 193369The Quest for Alliance, 1933-193772The Tactical Change: Without England, 1935-193776The Racial Factor826The Rejection of an Arab Connection, 1933-193785The Arab Response in Palestine to the Hitler Regime85The Rejection of Arab Overtures to 193687The NSDAP and the Palastinadeutsche92The Arab Revolt of 1936997The Peel Partition Plan and the Question of a Jewish State109The Peel Commission Report of July, 1937109The German Foreign Office and the Question of a Jewish State112The Rejection of Diplomatic Initiatives against the Partition Plan123Emigration Policy and the Haavara Debate126Hitler's Intervention and the Continuation of Jewish Emigration to Palestine1408Continuation of the Zionist Option145War Plans and Racial Policy145The Economic Ausschaltung148The SS and the Centralization of Emigration Policy151The Limits of the Legal Immigration System157The Promotion of Illegal Immigration to Palestine159Toward the Final Solution1639Germany, Palestine and the Middle East, 1938-1939168Shifting Patterns in Hitler's Englandpolitik168German Propaganda and Italian Middle East Policy174Germany and the Arab World, 1938-193918010Conclusions193Appendixes203Notes223Bibliography283Index303
\ BooknewsThis well-referenced exploration of the interwar conflict over Palestine by Nicosia (history, St. Michael's College, Colchester, VT) remains timely, although Germany no longer is a Middle East power player. Includes details of early German interests in Palestine and data on legal German Jewish immigration there until 1940. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
