Haavara FAQs: How did Zionist leaders respond to schemes that could have saved Jews by paying ransom to the Nazis?

Based on our research, starting from the summer of 1942, it is safe to say that Nazis were interested in making deals (for unknown reasons, perhaps Nazis were pressed for cash) that could have saved Jews in return for paying a relatively small ransom (either in cash payment or by providing materials like trucks, food provisions, ..etc.). The Slovakian Working Groups attempted to delay the shipment of the Slovakian Jews to Auschwitz by paying a small ransom of $50,000. Once that was successful and trust was built between the Working Group and Heinrich Himmler's deputy (e.g.., Dieter_Wisliceny), the Group recognized the potential of a much larger deal, which aimed to save much of the European Jewish community that was still alive (in a deal best known as The Europea Plan). Still, sadly, Jewish communities worldwide (especially those in the US and Palestine) didn't seem to take the offer seriously. This was true in the case of the Jewish Agency, which kept dithering and dragging its feet until the clock ran out (see the case of Joel Brand for details). As far as we can tell, there was no successful deal whatsoever. The account of Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl of what happened was heart-wrenching; he paid dearly for exposing Zionists' reasons during WWII (the same thing happened to Hanna Arendt when she exposed the KAPO files). Rabbi Weismandel is one of the true unsung heroes humanity has ever known, who lost much of his family in the Holocaust and escaped from a moving train on his way to be killed in Auschwitz. Rabbi Weismandel was instrumental in writing the Auschwitz Protocols and for lobbying to bomb the death camps. Stay tuned; we shall be enriching this section soon: