The Haavara Agreement, signed on August 25, 1933, was a formal economic arrangement between Nazi Germany’s Ministry of Economics, the Zionist Federation of Germany, and the Anglo-Palestine Bank, a Zionist institution operating in British Mandate Palestine. The pact facilitated the emigration of approximately 53,000 to 60,000 German Jews to Palestine between 1933 and 1939, allowing them to transfer part of their assets through the export of German goods to Palestine. It represented a pragmatic but deeply divisive response to escalating persecution under the Nazi regime, enabling some Jews to escape while indirectly supporting the German economy at a time when...
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