“The relationship between Nazism and Judaism was well known in Jewish circles of the 1930s. No one expressed it better than the American rabbi Harry Waton in a book published in 1939 by the Committee for the Preservation of the Jews, A Program for the Jews: Nazism is an imitation of Judaism; Nazism adopted the principles and ideas of Judaism with which to destroy the Judaism and the Jews.”

“The Nazis philosophy starts out with the postulate: The blood of a race determines the nature, course of evolution, and destiny of that race….whether consciously or not, the Nazis took this theory from the Bible itself.”

Waton goes further still: Hitler’s declaration that the Jewish consciousness is poison to the Aryan races is the deepest insight that the Western world has yet achieved in its own nature; and his capacity to realize this is proof of his genius as well as the secret of his power and of the curious fascination which his personality exerts…it is not the practical power or wealth of the Jews that he fears, but the character of the Jewish mind…It is the hidden penetration of the Jewish spirit into the Gentile mind that is the danger; and it is a danger because the ‘Aryan’ mind cannot resist it but must succumb.”

Waton, in fact, misunderstands Hitler’s real views on Jewishness, which, in private, were less racist than his own: “We use the term Jewish race,” Hitler wrote to a friend, “merely for reasons of linguistic convenience, for in the real sense of the word, and from a genetic point of view, there is no Jewish race…The Jewish race is above all a community of the spirit.”

Nazism and Zionism shared more than one ideological foundation; they had as their common enemy the assimilationist Jew. They also had a common goal: the emigration of Jews from Germany. Reinhardt Heydrich, Chief of the SS Security Service, wrote in 1935, in Das Schwartze Korps, the official SS Journal: “We must separate Jewry into two categories: the Zionists and those who favor being assimilated. The Zionists adhere to a strict racial position, and by emigrating to Palestine…the time cannot be far distant when Palestine will again be able to accept its sons who have been lost to it for over 1000 years.  Our good wishes together with our official good shall go with them.”

It would be exaggerating to say that Hitler was ideologically a Zionist for he had written in Mein Kampf in 1923, “for while Zionism tries to make the other part of the world believe that the national self-consciousness of the Jew finds satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again most slyly dupe the stupid goyim. They have no thought of building up a Jewish state in Palestine so that they might inhabit it, but they only want a central organization of their international world cheating, endowed with prerogatives, withdrawn from the seizure of others; a refuge for convicted rascals and a high school for future rogues.”

Nevertheless, the Nazis were largely favorable to the project originally formulated by Herzl, who had boasted in his diary: “I believe I have found the solution of the Jewish Question. Not a solution, but the solution, the only one,”  repeating further that Zionism was “the only possible final, and successful of the Jewish Question.”  The first Zionist association inspired by Herzl’s book, The National-Judische Vereinigung Koln, declared as its goal in 1897: the Final Solution of the Jewish Question lies therefore in the establishment of the Jewish State…”

Hannah Arendt has shown in her controversial book Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Nazi policy was pro-Zionist until 1938, and ” all leading positions in the Nazi-appointed Reichsvereinigung [compulsory organization of all Jews in Nazi Germany] were held by Zionists.” This created ” a situation in which the non-selected majority of Jews inevitably found itself confronted with two enemies — the Nazi authorities and the Jewish authorities.” Arend was the first Jewish intellectuals to unveil one of the Zionist’s darkest secrets, which has been abundantly documented. (eg. documented by Tom Segev in The Seventh Million.) : “There existed in those first years a mutually highly satisfactory agreement between the Nazi authorities and the Jewish Agency for Palestine — a Haaavarah or Transfer Agreement, which provided that an emigrant to Palestine could transfer his money there in German goods and exchange them for pounds upon arrival. It was soon the only legal way for a Jew to take his money with him. The alternative was the establishment of a blocked account, which be liquidated abroad only at a loss of between 50 and 90%.”

The result was that in the ’30s, when American Jewry took great pains to organize a boycott of German merchandise, Palestine, of all places, was swamped with ‘goods made in Germany.'” Some 60,000 wealthy Jews benefited from this Haavara Agreement, making a decisive contribution to the Jewish colonialization of Palestine.

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