ABSTRACT
Dieter Wisliceny argued that II/112 should be included in the deliberations of the Ministry of Economics and other government ministries concerning emigration policy, including the question of Zionist emigration to Palestine. The Schutzstaffel had consistently favored Jewish emigration to Palestine and would continue to do so with its enhanced authority in emigration policy. The Foreign Office continued to stress the dangers of a Jewish state, even after Britain had dropped the partition plan and had substantially reduced Jewish immigration to Palestine. The Foreign Office lent its support to the Sicherheitsdienst for the promotion of the illegal immigration of Jews to Palestine. The initial German conquest of much of Poland and about a million and a half Polish Jews in September, 1939, radically transformed the scope of Nazi Jewish policy. Adolf Hitler had already expressed his support for an understanding among the anti-Semitic regimes of Germany and Rumania aimed at securing the removal of millions of Jews from Europe to Madagascar.
