>>939087323
Nazicucks weren't any better.
The modern Zionist movement was founded by Theodor Herzl in the 1890s, advocating for a Jewish homeland in Palestine as a solution to antisemitism in Europe.
Herzl himself explicitly argued that antisemitism could be harnessed to encourage Jews to emigrate. So yes, by the time Hitler came to power in 1933, Zionism was already decades old.
Catholic antisemitism (esp. the “deicide” accusation) certainly primed many Germans and Austrians to be receptive to Hitler’s rhetoric. (Deicide accusation is the accusation that Jews killed Christ)
It’s true: in the early 1930s, Nazi policy was emigration, not extermination.
The Haavara Agreement (1933) allowed German Jews to transfer some assets to Palestine — something both Zionists and Nazis saw as useful, though for very different reasons.
Roughly 60.000 of 520.000 people of the Jewish population in Germany at the time emigrated under the Haavara Agreement.
So while the Nazis weren’t ideologically Zionist (not in public), their policies advantaged Zionist Jews while harming anti-Zionist Orthodox communities.
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