The Haavara Agreement: Zionist Defiance Against Nazi Genocide – Saving 60,000 Lives While Crushing Antisemitic Lies
The Haavara Agreement: Zionist Defiance Against Nazi Genocide – Saving 60,000 Lives While Crushing Antisemitic Lies In truth, the Nazis harbored a profound ideological revulsion toward Zionism and the very concept of a Jewish national homeland, viewing it not as a legitimate aspiration for self-determination but as a sinister extension of their paranoid fantasies about a global Jewish conspiracy. As historian Jeffrey Herf documents in his seminal Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World , Adolf Hitler himself ridiculed Zionism as an impossibility for Jews, whom he deemed inherently incapable of building or sustaining a sovereign state. [1] Far worse, Nazi propagandists portrayed a potential Jewish state in Palestine as a “Vatican for the Jews”—a fortified nerve center from which Jews could orchestrate their alleged domination over Germany and the world. [2] This venomous rhetoric, disseminated through radio broadcasts to Arab audiences and publications like Joseph Goebbels’ Der Angriff...