The Haavara Agreement

to help him move to another area which he got for a steel. In doing so you hope he moves out easily, but he ends up just telling lies so other people attack, while he lives for free somewhere else. This is very similar to the type of agreement the Haavara Agreement was. The Haavara Agreement was agreement between National Socialists Germany and British Empire signed on 25 August 1933, to help the Jews move out of Germany, after they declared war on their host nation. This agreement made it possible for 60,000 German Jews to emigrate to Palestine between 1933-1939.

After the Jews declared war on Germany something had to be done. Hitler as well as other Nazis leaders spent about three months negotiating with leaders of the Jewish community to get answers to the question of what to do with them. After much negotiation, it was decided, on August 25th, of 1933, that Germany would help the Jewish population living in their country move to Palestine, under something known as the Haavara Agreement. This would let 60,000 Jews living in Germany move to Palestine and start Israel, even before the British agreed to help them create the state.

Originally the plan called for them to be moved to Madagascar, but the British stepped in, and were even part of the Belford Act, to give the Jews Palestine.

Part of the Haavara agreement was that not only would it help the Jew emigrate from Germany it would also help the financial assets as well.

Many of the Jewish immigrant involved in this program, were given jobs through Hanotea company, which was a citrus farming country located in Palestine, at the time. Many of the Jews fleeing Germany were promised plantation where they could farm and grow fruits for a living. Germany also gave the Jews permission to buy farming equipment in Germany, and have it transferred to Palestine.

Even the ones that did decide to stay, got sent to their own part of the cities called ghettos, but only after they started attacking the German people. Later when the war started the Jews would be sent to labor camps, instead of a “death camp.”

The Certificat stated:

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 country that ended up stopping the Haavara Agreement and the emigration of Jews to Palestine was Britain, when British Petroleum persuaded them, in 1939. Too many local Palestinians were too upset with the influx of Jewish Immigrant. Many British petrol pipelines ran through Palestine from other parts in the middle east, which were important for the British war effort. The British were afraid if the local Palestinian population got too upset, they might attack these vital supply pipes, in an order of retaliations, hindering the British war effort.

By the time the Haaara Agreement was over it transferred 105,000,000 marks; equivalent to $790 million dollars USD.

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