1st Edition

The Third Reich and the Palestine Question

By Francis R. Nicosia Copyright 2000
343 Pages
by Routledge

344 Pages
by Routledge

319 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1: Imperial and Weimar Precedents; 2: Early National Socialist Attitudes toward Zionism; 3: The Development of the Haavara Transfer Agreement; 4: The Zionist Connection, 1933–1937; 5: The Role of England in Hitler’s Foreign Policy Plans; 6: The Rejection of an Arab Connection, 1933–1937; 7: The Peel Partition Plan and the Question of a Jewish State; 8: Continuation of the Zionist Option; 9: Germany, Palestine and the Middle East, 1938–1939; 10: Conclusions

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Francis R. Nicosia