FWD: Nazis planned Holocaust for pre-state Israel

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Nazis planned Holocaust for pre-state  Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3237529,00.html

Nazis  created special mobile SS murder squad ordered with carrying out
genocide of  Jews in British Mandatory Palestine
Reuters

Nazi Germany planned to  expand the extermination of Jews beyond the borders
of Europe and into  British-controlled Palestine during World War Two, two
German historians  say.

In 1942, the Nazis created a special "Einsatzgruppe", a mobile SS  death
squad, which was to carry out the mass slaughter of Jews in  Palestine

similar to the way they operated in eastern Europe, the  historians argue in
a new study.

The director of the Nazi research  centre in Ludwigsburg, Klaus-Michael
Mallman, and Berlin historian Martin  Cueppers say an Einsatzgruppe was all
set to go to Palestine and begin  killing the roughly half a million Jews
that had fled Europe to escape Nazi  death camps like Auschwitz and Birkenau.

In the study, published last  month, they say "Einsatzgruppe Egypt" was
standing by in Athens and was ready  to disembark for Palestine in the summer
of 1942, attached to the "Afrika  Korps" led by the famed desert commander
General Erwin Rommel.

The  Middle East death squad, similar to those operating throughout eastern
Europe  during the war, was to be led by SS Obersturmbannfuehrer Walther
Rauff, the  historians say.

'Holocaust in Palestine planned'

"The central plan  for the group was the realisation of the Holocaust in
Palestine," the authors  wrote in their study that appears in a book entitled
"Germans, Jews,  Genocide: The Holocaust as History and the Present."

But since Germany  never conquered British-controlled Palestine, plans for
bringing the  Holocaust to what is now Israel and the Palestinian territories
never came to  fruition.

Six million Jews were killed by the Nazis in Europe. According  to their own
records, the Einsatzgruppen killed over one million people, most  of them
civilians.

In the battle of El Alamein, Egypt, British General  Bernard Montgomery
turned the tide of the war in north Africa by routing  Rommel's "Afrika
Korps" and ending his African campaign.

As they did  in eastern Europe, the plan was for the 24 members involved in
the death  squad to enlist Palestinian collaborators so that the "mass murder
would  continue under German leadership without interruption."

"Einsatzgruppe  Egypt" never made it out of Greece.

"The history of the Middle East would  have been completely different and a
Jewish state could never have been  established if the Germans and Arabs had
joined forces," the historians  conclude.

Regarding the question why this is emerging 61 years after the  end of World
War Two, Mallmann and Cueppers said they simply unearthed  something other 
historians had not found yet.



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