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Hannah Arendt wrote:
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'During its first few years, Hitler’s rise to power appeared to the
Zionists chiefly as ‘the decisive defeat of assimilationism’.
Hence, the Zionists could, for a time, at least, engage in a certain
amount of non-criminal cooperation with the Nazi authorities; the
Zionists too believed that ‘dissimilation’, combined with the
emigration to Palestine of Jewish youngsters and, they hoped, Jewish
capitalists, could be a ‘mutually fair solution.’ At the time, many
German officials held this opinion, and this kind of talk seems to
have been quite common up to the end. A letter from a survivor of
Theresienstadt, a German Jew, relates that all leading positions in
the Nazi-appointed ' Reichsvereinigung’ were held by Zionists
(whereas the authentically Jewish ‘Reichsvertretung’ had been
composed of. both Zionists and non-Zionists), because Zionists,
according to the Nazis, were ‘the 'decent' Jews since they too
thought in 'national' terms.’
To be sure, no prominent Nazi even spoke publicly in this vein;
from beginning to end, Nazi propaganda was fiercely, unequivocally,
uncompromisingly anti-Semitic, and eventually nothing counted but
what people who were still without experience in the mysteries of
totalitarian government dismissed as ‘mere propaganda’. There
existed in those first years a mutually highly satisfactory
agreement between the Nazi authorities and the Jewish Agency for
Palestine - a 'Ha'avarah', or Transfer Agreement, which provided
that an emigrant to Palestine could transfer his money there in
German goods and exchange them for pounds upon arrival.
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