wm wrote: ↑06 Feb 2022, 14:44
I'm not sure the Nazis were blackmailed into the Agreement. After all, Hitler wanted Germany as free from the Jews as possible.
Its difficult to be sure what the 21 points (or his prison manifesto, chunks plagiarised from his great hero, Henry Ford). Neither were ever mentioned again. The American original was the "The International Jew" of 1920 and sold very well (though with considerable help) whereas Mein Kampf in 1924/1925 sold quite poorly until Hitler was in power 8 years later, when it was adopted as a "scripture" that nobody read but looked good on the bookshelf of each new German mother. Hitler needed Mein Kampf in order to claim to be a "successful writer" and explain where his otherwise totally mysterious wealth was coming from. (Interesting stories behind that - but astonishingly little hard research).
I'm not aware it was ever treated as a blueprint for expulsion and the timescale seems wrong. The last thing that Germany, desperately in trouble from the depression (30% unemployment), needed was another blow to its economy. As you said, the threat to the economy came from the Zionist boycott - and it was huge.
Hitlers first threats were not expulsion but extermination, they were uttered in January 1939. The web reminds me that a) that was new and b) it was also unexpected /unbelieved/ unbelievable. Nobody took any notice - there certainly would be no war on behalf of the Jews. Nor any protest.
https://forward.com/culture/418459/80-years-ago-today-hitler-threatened-genocide-of-european-jews-for-the/ wrote:January 30, 1939. Adolf Hitler had been chancellor of Germany for exactly six years. Thousands of Jews were already imprisoned in concentration camps. Legally defined as anyone possessing at least one Jewish grandparent, Jews were prohibited from marrying so-called Aryans, and had their businesses destroyed. But his annual speech to the Reichstag, Germany’s legislative body, delivered as usual on the anniversary of his election to the chancellorship, was the first time Hitler publicly called for the annihilation of the Jewish people in Europe.
... At the time, the remark was barely noted. The New York Times, publishing excerpts from the official English translation of the speech, did not include this first hint at the Final Solution in its summary of “Hitler’s Salient Points.” ... on February 4, The Times’s Otto D. Tolischus referred to the speech as “more moderate in tone than most of [Hitler’s] speeches,” ... did not mention the comments about Jews.
And the Agreement was the cheapest and surest way to achieve that.
I thought you told me, from a reading of Edwin Black's "Transfer Agreement", that Ha'avara was forced on Hitler by the Zionists.
The Nazis may have been forced to abandon their counter-boycott - but we've no evidence of that. April 1st 1933 was a Saturday, the Sabbath, practising Jews approved of shutting down Jewish shops on that day. (Look it up here -
https://www.dayoftheweek.org/?m=April&d=1&y=1933&go=Go )
wm wrote: ↑06 Feb 2022, 14:44
I don't think all the wealth of Jewish Germans was transferred, I've read it was about 60 percent survived to the end - the rest was various transaction costs and the flight tax.
The original agreement gave absolutely nothing to the Nazi regime. (Please challenge me if I'm wrong about that). In practise, money had to go to Germany because the manufacturers of Mercedes and Leika cameras had to pay for materials - but even then, none of it was supposed to go to Hitler.
Francis R. J. Nicosia - "The Third Reich and the Palestine Question" - Development of the Haavara Transfer Agreement wrote:p.38 ... Sam Cohen of Hanotaiah Ltd. of Tel Aviv, a private citrus growing company, had negotiated an agreement with the Ministry of Economics in Berlin in March, 1933. It provided for the transfer to Palestine of RM 1 million belonging to German Jews in the form of equipment for citrus groves, to be purchased in Germany and sold on the Palestine market.57 For Zionists in Palestine, the Jews from Germany, along with their assets in the form of goods to be transferred from Germany to Palestine, represented a stimulus for the development of the country. This was recognized at the Eighteenth World Zionist Congress in Prague in August-September, 1933, where resolutions supporting the worldwide boycott of Germany were rejected in favor of the transfer approach.58
Nicosia doesn't actually say as much but my interpretation is that Sam Coheh had been negotiating to steal the assets of the German Jews before the Nazi revolution (9th/10th March 1933 takeover of town halls). The Nazi revolution came after after Roosevelt's revolution/takeover of the American banking system and all the money of all Americans (5th to 13th March 1933) but for the same desperate financial reasons. Both revolutions used slavery (US - Hoover Dam, Germany, autobahns) to rescue the economy.
Strikingly, this was one of two agreements the Nazis were prepared to sign - because Chaim Arlosoroff had (or maybe planned?) to negotiate a different agreement that was, presumably, too good for the German Jews and deprived the Zionists of their massive share of the stolen money.
As we know, Arlosoroff was accidentally murdered on Tel Aviv beach in June 1933 and it was Sam Cohen's agreement that was finalised by the Zionist Congress on 25 August 1933. (Details hastily retracted from the official report of the Congress, says Nicosia).
The Zionists had rescued their failing colonial project with an audacious hijack of almost all the wealth of the German Jews - have I missed something?