Haavara FAQs: Jews for Sale? By Yehuda Baur

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We have reviewed the first four chapters of this book. No questions about it: Mr. Baur painted Zionists in a much more favorable light than they deserve. For example, he gave Zionist leaders a free pass on many things, here are a few of them:

• How Zionists obstructed the Evian Conference which is well documented even on Wikipedia,
• Zionist fixation on Palestine as the only destination for European Jewish refugees, which American Jews attempted to investigate 40 years ago and they got canceled, google "Jan. 3rd, 1983 NYTimes.com: US Panel on Jews" for details,
• Zionists' stances on the Nuremberg Race laws and Kristallnacht pogrom are widely known; especially how they behaved after Kindertransport when Ben-Gurion wished death to ten thousand Jewish kids because they were saved by the British.
• What was amazing was how he gave Zionists a free pass on their objections to similar schemes like Haavara but to countries other than Palestine.
• No criticism whatsoever to how Zionists objected Rublee-Schacht scheme although they were executing a similar one simultaneously with Nazis!
• Note how Mr. Baur provided zero details as to why Zionists objected to these schemes (plus what the Warburgs have suggested) especially when JDC (the Joint) attempted to save more Jews but to destinations other than Palestine.
• What was stunning was how Mr. Baur downplayed the effect of Haavara on the German economy. Yes, Haavara-based trade accounted for .5% of the total German exports, but he makes it to imply that if the boycott persisted trade wouldn't have lost billions of RMs (i.e. negative). Nazi archived shows how this terrified Nazis which Mr. Baur pointed out in Nazi chatter on page 19! Just to show you how the boycott terrified Nazis after the Kristallnacht pogrom Nazis lost 12.5% of their exports in January 1939, which was over 100 million RM per month! This terrified Nazis!
• As Ms. Porat, Mr. Baur literally chewed Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl's reputation and went on a limp to discredit him (see Chapter 5). Mr. Baur primarily used the fact that some of his evidence was based on his memories (especially related to Schwalb's letter who was Jewish Agency's representative in Geneva), not on primary documentation. YES, primary documents are essential for history's sake, but isn't that too much to ask from the Rabbi who jumped from a cattle train car while being shipped to Auschwitz? Not only Mr. Schwalb's letter was corroborated by Andrej Steiner (from the Working Group, see p. 77) who was cited by Mr. Baur, but most importantly what was written by Schwaulb was typical of Zionists' opinions at the time especially once compared to Ben-Gurion's infamous hate speech, or Y. Gruenbaum (the head of the so-called Rescue Committee) whom Ms. Porat reported about his antisemitism during the war.
• On several occasions. Mr. Baur repeated how Slovakian Jews got more than any other Jewish community in terms of aid during WWII. On the other hand, Yehuda failed to share too what was the allocated budget for rescue during WWII, and how much of it was actually spent. Once you look at the details, you may fall off your chair. What was spent is a little over half of what was allocated, which was a fraction of what was already donated for rescue. Therefore, almost ZERO dollars came from Zionists' enterprises which spent close to P£10 million during the war. But when $2 million (P£0.4 million) was asked (by the Working Group) to halt the deportation and extermination, they all bulked and pondered where the money would come from (see last paragraph on p. 85) although the so-called Yishuv was awash with cash and profited a lot because of the war efforts who had almost P£45 million; equivalent of $180 million in their cash deposits (see Dina Porat, at page 88).
• Finally, as Mr. Baur was discussing Nazi plans of removing Europe's Jews to Madagascar in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he lamented how Nazis ignored the fact the African island had an indigenous population (p. 58). Of course, no such intellectual courtesy was extended to Palestine (the most important land bridge in human history) since it was empty. "Thank God" for the Jews who bloomed its Negev deserts!