The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine (0786708417) - Reviews and Prices
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The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine (0786708417) - Reviews and Prices
First published to international acclaim in 1984, The Transfer Agreement stunned readers worldwide with its revelations of a pact between Zionist leaders and Hitler's Third Reich. Concluded in 1933, this controversial pact transferred 55,000 Jews and $100 million to Palestine on the condition that Zionist organizations call a halt to their economic boycott of Nazi Germany -- a potent tactic that was threatening to topple Hitler's government, then only in its first year in power. The debate over this controversial deal virtually tore apart the Jewish world in the pre-World War II era, and it remains unresolved today. Whereas the transfer agreement indeed ultimately saved lives, rescued assets, and helped lay the foundation for what would become the Jewish state in 1948, it also -- arguably -- allowed the Nazi regime to survive its first year and, over the next twelve, to plumb the depths of ethnic intolerance and implement massive genocide. With the world today confronting such morally complex issues as the compensation for slave labor during the Holocaust and the refusal of Swiss banks to return Jewish assets to their rightful heirs, the transfer agreement and the boycott that preceded it stand out even more startlingly as early examples of Jewish initiatives against Nazi terror. However ambiguous the choices made by the Jewish leaders in the turbulent prewar 1930s, they stand in a new and different light today. The Transfer Agreement is a remarkable and revelatory book that has now found its time.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
INTERESTING , AND SHOCKING:
Not being an expert of the formation of the Israeli state , and the significance of all of the events leading to its formation, it is difficult for me to determine whether ' The Transfer Agreement' is a story about the uncovering of the most hidden secret of the war , or more simply, an in depth look into an event, which although significant , has already received its rightful amount of attention in world history (little to none).
It can certainly be stated that Mr Black has reseached a ' gem ' of a... more info
What SHOCKING facts you will learn from reading this book::
In an interview after the war, the former head of the Zionist Federation of Germany, Dr. Hans Friedenthal, summed up the situation: "The Gestapo did everything in those days to promote emigration, particularly to Palestine. We often received their help when we required anything from other authorities regarding preparations for emigration." At the September 1935 National Socialist Party Congress, the Reichstag adopted the so-called "Nuremberg laws" that prohibited marriages and sexual relations between... more info
Versailles, Effective and Ineffective Jewish Boycotts, Nazi-Zionist Deal, etc.:
This scholarly, fact-filled book tells of such things as western European Jews looking down upon the Ostjuden (p. 4), the American-Jewish founding of the NAACP and the ACLU (p. 40), Jews in Mussolini's Fascist government (pp. 61-62), large Jewish-led boycotts against tsarist Russia and against Henry Ford (pp. 26-33; the latter of whom caved). Ironically, such boycotts played into the hands of those who portrayed Jews as powerful. Some Jewish leaders opposed them in part because of possible ineffectiveness... more info
Less than it could have been:
Glen Yeadon, author of Nazi Hydra in America, had this to say about The Transfer Agreement: I found it very boring--it was steeped with internal Jewish politics and very little about the actual negotiations with the Nazis or the actual deal and its results. It is geared to Jewish historians and only vaguely to the war and the Nazis... I liked IBM and the War against the Weak - both were good and I bought this one on the strength of the other two. It tried to remain neutral rather than to place the... more info
