Edwin Black : The Transfer Agreement

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Book Discussion on The Transfer Agreement

Edwin Black talked about his book The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine (Dialog Press; 25th anniversary ed. August 25, 2009). He pieced together the story of an agreement made between Hitler’s government and a group of Zionist leaders in 1933. The agreement called for the transfer of 55,000 Jews and $100 million to Palestine in exchange for calling off a planned economic boycott of Nazi Germany by Jewish organizations. 

For his only planned presentation on the release of the 25th anniversary edition of his controversial volume Edwin Black was interviewed by Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt. He also responded to questions from members of the audience and those submitted in advance electronically. Mitchell Bard moderated.

This event at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Rockville, Maryland, at 2:30 p.m. Friday, October 30, 2009, was sponsored by the History News Network and cosponsored by Jewish Virtual Library, State of California Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Institute for Religion and Public Policy, Binghamton Social Justice Fund, Spero News, The Auto Channel, Energy Publisher, The Cutting Edge News and Dialog Press

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"The Haavara Agreement (Hebrew: הסכם העברה Translit.: heskem haavara Translated: "transfer agreement") was signed on 25 August 1933 after three months of talks by the Zionist Federation of Germany, the Anglo-Palestine Bank (under the directive of the Jewish Agency) and the economic authorities of Nazi Germany. The agreement was designed to help facilitate the emigration of German Jews to Palestine. While it helped Jews emigrate, it forced them to give up most of their possessions to Germany before departing. Those assets could later be obtained by transferring them to Palestine as German export goods."

CERTIFICATE

The Trust and Transfer Office "Haavara" Ltd. places at the disposal of the Banks in Palestine amounts in Reichmarks which have been put at its disposal by the Jewish immigrants from Germany. The Banks avail themselves of these amounts in Reichmarks in order to make payments on behalf of Palestinian merchants for goods imported by them from Germany. The merchants pay in the value of the goods to the Banks and the "Haavara" Ltd. pays the countervalue to the Jewish immigrants from Germany. To the same extent that local merchants will make use of this arrangement, the import of German goods will serve to withdraw Jewish capital from Germany.

The Trust and Transfer Office,

HAAVARA, LTD.

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An atheist makes the affirmative statement "God Does Not Exist".

How, then, can a professed atheist make the case for a Promised Land, for a Chosen People, mandated by God himself..?

Because of everything you already mentioned, how did the boycott feed into Nazi notions of Jewish power..?

That was the power of the boycott. 

You don't that measure in nickels or dimes or in Marks or in Fennigs.

You measure a boycott in ergs of  fear. How afraid are you of the boycott?

And were they?

"The Nazis is believed in Jewish Boycotts.

They believed in an international Jewish conspiracy which controlled markets. 

Hitler believed in his hero,  Henry Ford - but what brought him down?

A Jewish boycott run by the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress against the Ford Motor company and this was big of the in the minds of the nazis. 

Although they believed in the boycott almost as much. 

If anyone comes to you with statistics, they don't know what they're talking about because it is fear, it's economic fear that runs the economy."