| The Transfer Agreement | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Edwin Black |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | History, Politics |
| Publisher | Dialog Press |
| Publication date | 1984 |
| Pages | 194 |
| ISBN | 0914153137 |
The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine is a non-fiction book written by author Edwin Black, documenting the agreement between Zionist Jews and Adolf Hitler to help create a Jewish state in Palestine, in return for an end of a global boycott of Nazi Germany that had threatened to bring it down in its first days of power.
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This book documents the agreement between Adolf Hitler and an organization of Zionist Jews in 1933, which made Hitler "the chief economic sponsor of the state of Israel". A sweeping, worldwide economic boycott of Germany by Jews helped spur a deal between the Nazis and Zionists[1]. At that time, there were few Jews in Palestine, but from 1933 through 1936, 60,000 German Jews immigrated into the region, bringing with them $100,000,000 dollars ($1.6 billion in 2009 dollars)[2].
There was no effort to deny the history documented in this book, but Jewish groups around the world decried it as "sensationalism". The author, himself a Jew, was disowned by his own mother,[3] although they reconciled later.