ABSTRACT
How the Nazis themselves weighed up their Jewish policy and its central significance in the drama of 1938 can be assessed in this revealing extract from a German Foreign Ministry memorandum on ‘The Jewish Question’, dated 25 January 1939:
Subject: The Jewish Question as a Factor in Foreign Policy in 1938
1. Germany’s Jewish policy as condition and consequence of foreign policy decisions in 1938. 2. The aim of German Jewish policy: emigration. 3. Means, ways and destinations of Jewish emigration. 4. The Jewish émigré as the best propaganda for Germany’s Jewish policy.
