Word: madagascar
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...realized he could help the Jews by forcibly "facilitating" the work of the Zionists. "The real solution would be for the Jews to have a state of their own," he said. In this spirit, he claimed, he helped ship Jews out of Nazi Europe, tried to set up Madagascar as a Jewish haven. "I wanted Jews to have solid ground under their feet...
Zanzibar, to the north, is like neither Madagascar nor Tanganyika. Once the major headquarters for Arab slavers, it is a lady island, pungent with the odor of cloves and the glamour of Araby. Tourists can ride the streets in dilapidated rickshas, visit the old Arab waterfront fort and the harbor, where old wooden dhows with odd-looking lateen sails load up for trips to the mainland. They can buy French perfumes, Indian craft jewelry, or copies of the famed, huge oaken "elephant doors," which are covered with spikes to keep elephants from leaning on them. They are an unusual curio...
...Madagascar Plan. Then Poland fell, and there were another 3,000,000 Jews to dispose of. Eichmann lost himself in an elaborate and totally impractical plan to resettle 4,000,000 Jews under a Nazi overlord on the island of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa. Says a laconic observer: "The year Eichmann wasted on the Madagascar scheme was the most harmless he ever spent." In 1941, when the Nazis invaded Russia, the Madagascar scheme-and all other "soft" solutions of the Jewish question-went out the window. At the Wannsee conference in Berlin, Eichmann and 14 other Nazi...
...last big job was the elimination of Hungary's Jews. While the Nazi armies stumbled backward in defeat, Eichmann arrived in Budapest to command the roundup. He conceived another farfetched idea, on a par with the Madagascar scheme. Summoning Jewish Leader Joel Brand, Eichmann said: "I'm prepared to sell you 1,000,000 Jews: blood for money, money for blood. Whom do you want to save? Men who can beget children? Women who can bear them? Old people? Children? Sit down and tell...
...Senegal, Ivory Coast, Congo Republic, Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Central African Republic, Upper Volta, Mauritania, Niger, Cameroun, Malagasy Republic (the former Madagascar...