Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
7 April
ZIONIST-NAZI COLLABORATION BEFORE WWII
On this day in 1933, the Juedische Rundschau, the paper of the German Zionist movement, declared that of all Jewish groups only the Zionist Federation of Germany was capable of approaching the Nazis in good faith as "honest partners". In the spring of 1933 a senior Nazi, Mildenstein, and a ZF representative, Tuchler, left Berlin with their wives for Palestine. They spent a month together in Palestine, and Mildenstein began to write a series of articles supporting Zionism for Der Angriff, a Nazi Party newspaper.
التعاون الصهيوني النازي قبل الحرب العالمية الثانية
7 أبريل
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1933 ، أعلنت الصحيفة اليهودية الألمانية روندشاو، أن الاتحاد الصهيوني في ألمانيا هو الوحيد من بين كل الجماعات اليهودية القادر على التعامل مع النازيين بحسن نية "كشركاء أمناء". في ربيع عام 1933 ، غادر كل من ميلدنشتاين أحد كبار النازيين وممثل الاتحاد الصهيوني توشلر وزوجاتهم برلين متجهين إلى فلسطين. أمضيا شهرًا معًا في فلسطين ، وبدأ ميلدنشتاين في كتابة سلسلة من المقالات التي تدعم الصهيونية في صحيفة دير أنجريف التابعة للحزب النازي.
Baron von Mildenstein and the SS support of Zionism in Germany from 1934-1936
"...the two couples were travelling [to Palestine] with the sanction of both the Nazi Party and the Zionist Federation of Germany...What had brought them together on this journey to Palestine was their common desire, motivated by radically different objectives, to make Germany ‘free of Jews’, or, as the Nazis put it, Judenrein .
Where the National Socialists had not yet worked out a solution to ‘the Jewish question’, the Zionists, with their ambition to establish a Jewish homeland and their sponsorship of Jewish emigration to Palestine, had an answer.
Original article in History Today, January 1980
Lenni Brenner is withering in his condemnation of the politics of the leaders of the German Zionist movement. The facts are indisputable.
The truth is sadder than cowardice. The plain fact is that Germany’s Zionists did not see themselves as surrendering but, rather, as would-be partners in a most statesmanlike pact. They were wholly deluded. No Jews triumphed over other Jews in Nazi Germany. No modus vivendi was ever even remotely possible between Hitler and the Jews. Once Hitler had triumphed inside Germany, the position of the Jews was hopeless; all that was left for them was to go into exile and continue the fight from there. Many did, but the Zionists continued to dream of winning the patronage of Adolf Hitler for themselves. They did not fight Hitler before he came to power, when there was still a chance to beat him, not out of any degree of cowardice, but out of their deepest conviction, which they had inherited from Herzl, that anti-Semitism could not be fought. Given their failure to resist during Weimar, and given their race theories, it was inevitable that they would end up as the ideological jackals of Nazism.
Lenni Brenner on the collaboration of key Zionist leaders with the German Nazi regime up until 1941 or "How Ken Livingston got it substantially right before being expelled from the Labour Party"