WI: Peel Commission Plan Accepted

What if the Palestinian partition plan proposed by the Peel Commission, or the subsequent Woodhead Commission, was accepted?

Among other things, I'm wondering how Nazi Germany would react to a Jewish state. I'd imagine that fewer Jews would die in the Holocaust - either a substantial number of them leave, or the Nazis decide to just send them all to Israel.
 

Nietzsche

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What if the Palestinian partition plan proposed by the Peel Commission, or the subsequent Woodhead Commission, was accepted?

Among other things, I'm wondering how Nazi Germany would react to a Jewish state. I'd imagine that fewer Jews would die in the Holocaust - either a substantial number of them leave, or the Nazis decide to just send them all to Israel.

Well, their initial plan was exactly that. Germany for the Germans, deport all the Jews to some Israel somewhere. The where didn't really matter. It's the cheapest solution.
 

Wolfpaw

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Well, their initial plan was exactly that. Germany for the Germans, deport all the Jews to some Israel somewhere.
Quite right. The Third Reich's original policy was to "encourage" (which is a relatively bloodless term for harass, beat, discriminate against, disenfranchise, occasionally kill and the like) Jews to emigrate and the where didn't matter so long as it was outside of Großdeutschland. Eichmann, I believe, was actually sent to Palestine to scope out whether or not it would be suitable for "Jewish resettlement" or something like that. At least that's how he told the story.

In fact, the plan didn't change until the war. Until Wannsee, the plan was to use the Kriegsmarine and the Anglo-French fleets (once they'd surrendered, of course) to deport the Jews to Madagascar.
 
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