HIEU 158 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Federal Foreign Office, Sicherheitsdienst, Jewish Question
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The main question is whether things were planned out or haphazard. Can"t have the jews emigrate anymore because the germans were taking on too much new land with too many jews. Stages of persecution and how they match up with the war. Functionalists argue that sometimes nazi figures -- including the man on the street -- did antisemitic actions without hating jews or did not know how to deal with so many jews. The significance of the haavara transfer agreement. 40,000 german jews give up their houses and properties to the government and the proceeds go to palestine which is then used to buy german coffee and the rest is put towards housing the jews. There was a lot of resistance to this because people saw it as legitimizing the nazis by showing them they have this power. Buber had actually supported wwi with the idea of a parallel between his jewish and german nationalisms.
