Not at all, please read my comment properly, I said;Terry, you need to brush up your African history and geography.
Clearly it says 'like this' and not that the name appled directly to this area.Places like this did not obtain the name 'The White Man's Grave' for lack of reason.
The entire history of white settlers in Aftrica indicates a far higher mortality rate than in Europe, and curiously there is no magic teleport to take shipping from Suez or Dakar to Madagascar to avoid a long journey through these areas.
The maps posted by Jon show that the health problems in the two areas are not the same and that the latter is a far greater health risk area.If European Jews could settle in such a god-forsaken place as Palestine was at the beginning of the 20th Century, there is no reason why they could not settle in Madagascar.
It is not a satisfactory excuse. Airily suggesting 'oh the Jews in America will supply them with enough aid' is no proof it will happen, let alone on any scale sufficient to avoid a major loss of life. It might do, but it is not a certainty.I have already addressed the issue of material assistance for the Jews arriving in Madagascar in one of my earlier posts. No doubt they would receive aid from the wealthy Jewish community of the United States, in the same way as the early Zionist settlers in Ottoman Palestine received aid from Jewish organisations that enabled them to survive and prosper.
In 1940 is that not the most dense population of Jews in any area under German control? Are you saying the Germans would not ship them?The only Jews who were on starvation or semi-starvation rations in 1940 were those of German-occupied Poland.
You could take photos in any city on Earth and you will only ever capture a fraction of the people living there, and quite often the worst health cases are not out wandering the streets but inside and out of sight.Photographs taken in the Warsaw Ghetto in the summer of 1941 (not official propaganda, but private photos taken by a German soldier) show a population that appears adequately fed, and definitely not starving, although some malnorished beggars appear.
They may well do, but this is on a quite different scale, probably one that is beyond the ability of a single grouping to achieve, and would need the power and organisation of a state behind it to work.The German authorities had allowed Jewish organisations in the United States to provide aid to their racial brethren in occupied Poland, so there is no reason to believe that they would not have permitted similar aid to be provided to Jews on the voyage to Madagascar and after their arrival.