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The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Secret Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
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In 1933, the Zionist movement concluded a secret and controversial pact with the Third Reich transfering some 60,000 Jews and $100 million to Jewish Palestine. In return, the Zionists halted the worldwide Jewish-led anti-Nazi boycott that threatened to topple the Hitler regime in its first year. The debate tore the pre-War Jewish world apart. Ultimately, the Transfer Agree
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Paperback, New and Updated Edition, 430 pages
Published
July 25th 2008
by Dialog Press
(first published May 1st 1984)
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Edwin Black tells a piece of history which is not well known, perhaps purposely kept from public view because it is so embarrassing to the participants.
In 1933, the worldwide Jewish community began a protest versus the antisemitic Nazis who had just come to power by organizing a huge and successful boycott versus German goods. This action inflicted severe damage on the German economy and threatened to create so much chaos that the Hitler government was expected by many to fall before winter.
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In 1933, the worldwide Jewish community began a protest versus the antisemitic Nazis who had just come to power by organizing a huge and successful boycott versus German goods. This action inflicted severe damage on the German economy and threatened to create so much chaos that the Hitler government was expected by many to fall before winter.
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The Transfer Agreement was a fascinating and yet heartbreaking book for me to read. It revealed an unknown layer of Nazi and Jewish history that I was completely ignorant of. It involves a highly secretive deal made by Zionists with the Reich after Hitler came to power and he and his minions began dismantling the lives of German Jews. We all know that Jews were kicked out of their professions, lost their citizenship, and many were tortured and even killed in those early months of the Third Reich
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Edwin Black has brought incredible clarity to this murky subject. Occasionally Black can mail it in with books that are partially regurgitated previous works. However, when he tackles a new subject (IBM and The Holocaust, War Against the Weak) as he does with The Transfer Agreement he will not miss a single detail. The complex politics behind this story are fascinating and compelling. There are no good guys and no bad guys. Just various responses to a world on the brink and the future of Palesti
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Not an easy or entertaining read, but well worth the effort. At points (reminded me of other histories frm the era) it was simply tedious. I had to keep reminding myself of what it might have been like in that place, at that time. Could I have made the decsions that they had? They were a generation of giants, faced with seriously world-changing challenges.
I liked the beginning about the world Jewish boycott of the Nazis in 1933 and the cooperation between Nazis, who wanted all Jews out of Europe, and the Zionists who wanted all Jews to go to Palestine.
Later boredom crept in when lots of unrelated names were thrown around without any apparent connections to each other.
Later boredom crept in when lots of unrelated names were thrown around without any apparent connections to each other.
GB
Wow, what an interesting flood of knowledge about what the Jews of the world did and did not do to save each other from Hitler's terror.
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