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The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Secret Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine (157129077X) - Reviews and Prices
In 1933, the Zionist movement concluded a controversial pact with the Nazi government transferring 60,000 Jews and $100,000 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 years. The debate tore the pre-WWII Jewish world apart. Ultimately, the Transfer Agreement saved lives, rescued assets and seeded the infrastructure of the Jewish state.
The Transfer Agreement stands out as a still controversial example of a mass Jewish rescue that occurred before the genocide started. The terrible choices its negotiators undertook must now be viewed in the light of the Holocaust.
Edwin Black presents certain truths that have long eluded historians - the financial nexus that served Hitler's obsession with expelling the Jews as an essential prelude to conquering Europe, together with the Zionists' resolve to bring their dispossessed people to Palestine. The American Jewish involvement is of special interest as the author reconstructs the magnitude of the pro- and anti-boycott meetings and the passion invested in them.
The author spent five years on three continents researching and writing this work. He was aided by a team of researchers and translators who unearthed previously suppressed and widely dispersed documents and archives. Already acclaimed by dozens of experts and Holocaust scholars, The Transfer Agreement was described by Dr. Sybil Milton of the Simon Wiesenthal Center as "a spellbinding, exciting book."
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
