WI: Hitler dropped all Jews in Palestine

As the title suggests, what would happen if Hitler decided to bring all Jews in Nazi controlled Europe into the middle east? What would happen to the political situation in England? US? Would the Brits let it happen? Would the Jews be happy?
 

nbcman

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There were less than 2 million people living in Palestine in the early 1940s. How would 6+ million Jews be housed and fed?
 
There were less than 2 million people living in Palestine in the early 1940s. How would 6+ million Jews be housed and fed?

Hitler hardly would care any shit. Another thing is how Hitler gets Brits agree re-settle over six millions Jews to Palestine. Probably only way is that Germans succeed to capture area.
 
As the title suggests, what would happen if Hitler decided to bring all Jews in Nazi controlled Europe into the Middle East?
Well my first question would have to be how on earth would he transport them? A very close second being how they would be able to survive since it would put massive strain, if not outright wreck, the local water and food sources that weren't as heavily developed as the modern state.


Would the Brits let it happen?
Considering that they refused post-war when the Jewish holocaust was widely known about, going so far as to run military patrols and intern attempted immigrants in Cyprus, I'd say definitely not. The British can simply refuse it as a German tactic to try and make them use resources supporting this influx of people.
 
I'm not sure the Royal Navy is just going to allow a gigantic fleet of axis vessels to sail down the Med towards British held Palestine during wartime.

Marching them across southern and eastern Europe and Turkey is going to have much the same outcome as the death camps did and burn a comparable amount of resources too.
 
Would it work if Hitler offered the Jews Palestine in lieu of fighting the British off? He can claim that the British are denying them their promised land and all the jazz.
USA can't provide that much assistance, since they are still recovering from the Great Depression.
 
Pre-war, Britain might agree to take them? Maybe half or a third of German Jews move to Palestine, and the rest move to more developed parts of the British Empire or western world.

During the war, it would be a convoluted and expensive way to kill Jews. There is no way a Nazi controlled Palestine is anything but a ghetto, and if it were somehow under the Allied auspices, there is no way several million migrants could support or defend themselves.
 
A more plausible TL could be increasing the number of Jews migrating to Palestine via neutral Turkey.
At which point they reach Iraq - and after mid-1941 Syria, or possibly even before then - and are refused entry. The Turks, no doubt expecting this, or possibly having been forewarned by the British, use this as an excuse to decline to cooperate with Germany.
 
I agree that is probably what would happen. I just thought it was more plausible than Germans sailing them over.
 

NoMommsen

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Erhm, pre-war the Nazis tried this ... but this was hindered mostly by the restictive immigration regulations the Brits had set up for palestine.
The germans even set up deals with international jewish organizations to promote the moving of german jews to palestine.

I can't see any plausible way how this could have been done during the war.
And if the Nazis had offered the wallies to send the jews under their control to palestine ... somehow I have problems to see the wallies actally "accepting" this offer.

For the resons of my ... doubts : see the Evian Conference, ... at least.
 
The British - who were 'lucky enough' to have the Palestine mandate at that time - would not allow the migration of millions of peoples regardless of race to Palestine - for the simple reason that it creates a precedent that other nations can then use to exile other 'undesirable' peoples in their given state and a massive burden no nation wanted.

Also no one knew that the Holocaust was coming and anyway few would believe in the mid 30's that a people as well educated as the Germans would allow such a thing to happen.

No one was going to want to deal with hundreds of refugees let alone millions - One only has to look at the MS St. Louis and her 1939 pre war attempts to take 900 German Jews to Cuba and then other nations
 
Would it work if Hitler offered the Jews Palestine in lieu of fighting the British off? He can claim that the British are denying them their promised land and all the jazz.
USA can't provide that much assistance, since they are still recovering from the Great Depression.

Even Chamberlain is not stupid enough that would believe Hitler anymore on this point. And hardly it would had worked even before the war. Like other had already stated, Brits don't allow millions Jews move to Palestine.
 
As the title suggests, what would happen if Hitler decided to bring all Jews in Nazi controlled Europe into the middle east? What would happen to the political situation in England? US? Would the Brits let it happen? Would the Jews be happy?

How should he do that? He did not have political control there? Palestine was under British control and gradually fewer and fewer jews were allowed to settle there, as Britain wanted to have a better relation with the arabs in case war should break out. In particular Britain wanted a good relation to the oil-producing countries.
 
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