Differences Between Hitler And The Madagascar Plan

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The debate over whether Hitler decided from the beginning to murder the Jews or not is a tough debate. There are good points from both sides, but the one that makes the most sense is a mix between the two. I believe that Hitler and the Nazis had first set out to just get rid of the Jews through migration, but in the back of their minds genocide would be better. One of the best examples of a mixed reason is the Madagascar Plan. The Madagascar Plan was a plan to migrate Jews to the then French island of Madagascar after they had invaded and successfully captured France. Their plan was to send Jew laborers to get the colony started and then send more afterwards. Franz Rademacher first proposed the plan in June 1940. If they were planning on