Why The Jews Couldn’t Leave Germany
During the Nazi Regime Jewish ,population were the center of all Germany's hate. Germany blamed the Jews for their economic crisis at the time. When Hitler took power he began a mass extinction of the Jewish people. So the Jews thought of ways to leave Nazi Germany. Although many people feel the Jews should have just escaped Nazi Germany they didn’t have the resources, no other country would take them, and the Nazis kept a close eye on them.
Jews Had No Resources
When Hitler started killing the Jews, many wanted to leave Germany but were not able to leave due to lack of resources and they were apprehensive. Getting visas was a resource the Jewish people did not have America made it difficult for the Jews
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This was also a way to keep a very close eye on the Jewish people on the island (Andrews). However, Rademacher wasn’t the only one who thought that this was a genius plan there was an SS commander called Heinrich Himmler. SS Chief Heinrich Himmler expressed his desire that the concept of Jews will be completely extinguished through the possibility of large-scale emigration of all Jews to Africa or some other colony (Andrews). When the island was surveyed The persecution ramped up after the beginning of World War II, when the Nazis began forcing Jews into camps and ghettos (Andrews). Many of the Jews who were supposed to be sent to the island; the Nazis had a list of all the known Jews living in Germany at that time (Khalique). When the Jews were going to the island where “The scheme called for the Jews to have their European citizenship revoked and their property and personal fortunes seized to help fund a new “super-ghetto” in the Indian Ocean,” (Andrews). The Nazis were supposed to acquiesce following an abortive plan to transform Poland’s Lublin district into a massive Jewish reservation, the Germans shifted their focus toward removing the Jews from the continent altogether