Hannah Arendt has shown in her controversial book Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Nazi policy was pro-Zionist until 1938, and " all leading positions in the Nazi-appointed Reichsvereinigung [compulsory organization of all Jews in Nazi Germany] were held by Zionists." This created " a situation in which the non-selected majority of Jews inevitably found itself confronted with two enemies -- the Nazi authorities and the Jewish authorities." Arend was the first Jewish intellectuals to unveil one of the Zionist's darkest secrets, which has been abundantly documented. (eg. documented by Tom Segev in The Seventh Million.) : "There existed in those first years a mutually highly satisfactory agreement between the Nazi authorities and the Jewish Agency for Palestine -- a Haaavarah or Transfer Agreement, which provided that an emigrant to Palestine could transfer his money there in German goods and exchange them for pounds upon arrival. It was soon the only legal way for a Jew to take his money with him. The alternative was the establishment of a blocked account, which be liquidated abroad only at a loss of between 50 and 90%."
The result was that in the '30s, when American Jewry took great pains to organize a boycott of German merchandise, Palestine, of all places, was swamped with 'goods made in Germany.'" Some 60,000 wealthy Jews benefited from this Haavara Agreement, making a decisive contribution to the Jewish colonialization of Palestine.
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