Language:
German
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2002) 76-90
Keywords:
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Zionism
Abstract:
Immediately after the Nazi accession to power, the German Zionist organization sought to establish contact with the new regime and persuade it to support the Zionist solution to the "Jewish problem". SS officer Leopold von Mildenstein was sympathetic to this idea, and in spring 1933 he, together with Zionist leader Kurt Tuchler, set off for a tour of Palestine to investigate its potential for the absorption of German Jews. Mildenstein's report, published in Goebbels' "Der Angriff", was favorable. Heydrich was impressed and appointed him to organize the new office for Jewish affairs (Judenreferat) in the SD, which was to encourage Jews to emigrate to Palestine. The response was disappointing, and at the beginning of 1936 Mildenstein transferred to Organisation Todt. The Nazis continued to encourage emigration until 1941, the start of the deportations.
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