Although the main attempt was made during the Nazi era, we share this strange plan that dates back to ancient times. For those who say what is the Madagascar Plan, what is its history, come here.
What is it, What is not ?
The madagascar plan is the idea of placing the Jews on the island of Madagascar as a super ghetto, whose origin dates back to the end of the 19th century. The plan, which sounded absurd when I first heard, was seriously worked out, as another version, the British Uganda Program was offered to the Zionist communities at the beginning of the century (the plan to settle the persecuted Jews in Europe (see: pogrom) on British East African lands) I was even more surprised when I found out. Of course, when you stop and think about it, the fact that the establishment of Israel after the Second World War was not much different from this shows that the plans were very serious.
Anyway, the Nazis worked hard on this plan, although Himmler worked for a long time and Hitler approved it, as the British Navy, which was planned to transport the Jews, was never captured by the Nazis and finally the British took Madagascar from the Vichy government. The plan is gone forever.
The sinking of such a plan paved the way for one of the most important events in history, the Holocaust. It was the beginning of the end for the Jews who were hoarded in ghettos and concentration camps until the middle of the Second World War and mostly died of natural causes.
Political History
The Madagascar Plan is a policy of the Nazi government that proposes the relocation of the Jewish population in Europe to the island of Madagascar.
The sending of European Jews to the island of Madagascar is not a new idea. The idea was first proposed by the antisemitic orientalist thinker Paul de Lagarde in 1885 and was revisited in the 1920s by Henry Hamilton Beamish, Arnold Leeese, and others. The Zionist movement seriously discussed and finally rejected the British Uganda program, which envisaged the settlement of Jews in Uganda in 1904 and 1905. The advocates of regionalism left Zionism and tried to find a place where Jews from all over the world could settle down and create a new state, or at least an autonomous space, without thinking that Madagascar would have a specific role in this matter. Nazi Germany's handling of the plan Nazi Germany's leaders confiscated the idea, and Adolf Hitler gave his approval in 1938. In May 1940, Heinrich Himmler said, "I hope that the views of the Jews will be completely extinguished by the possibility of a great exodus of all Jews to Africa or to another colony." he stated his opinion.
In late August 1940, Franz Rademacher pressured Ribbentrop to hold a meeting in his ministry to prepare an expert panel to strengthen the plan. likewise, Adolf Eichmann's draft, which was never approved by Reinhard Heydrich, lost its force. In October, the Warsaw ghetto was completed and opened. The deportation of Jews from German territory into occupied Poland continued from late August 1940 until spring 1941. The resistance of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain and Germany's mistake in order to achieve a quick victory from September are the main factors that caused the plan to collapse.
The rhetoric of madagascar as a super-ghetto was seldom repeated in successive months. but from the beginning of December the plan was abandoned altogether. In 1942, the British and Free French forces recaptured Madagascar from the Vichy forces, effectively ending all discussions of the plan.