The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine Hardcover – October 5, 1999

by Edwin Black (Author)

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An updated edition of the controversial best-seller documents the secret 1933 pact between the Third Reich and German-Jewish leaders that promised an end to the Jewish-led boycott of German-made goods in exchange for the transfer of sixty thousand Jews and some $100 million to Jewish Palestine.

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A fascinating book creating controversy all across the country. Black applied his established investigative journalism techniques to history. The result is an extraordinary book. -- Bill Kurtis, CBS Morning News

A struggle to write a painful chapter in Jewish history. What Black began uncovering was a tangled account of an anguished moment in history, one that he at the center had to piece together from...forgotten archives, pre-WWII newspapers, and government records. -- Jan Cawley, Chicago Tribune Magazine

Black poses the controversial question: 'Was it madness or was it genius?' The many fascinated readers will have to decide for themselves. -- Booklist, American Library Association

About the Author

Edwin Black is the son of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. He was the founder of Chicago Monthly and frequently contributed to the Chicago Tribune and other publications. He lectures and writes extensively on Jewish and Israeli subjects, and is the author of the Apocalyptic techno-thriller Format C:

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brookline Books; Updated edition (October 5, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 430 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 157129077X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1571290779
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.85 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #4,178,583 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #24,521 in Judaism (Books)

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Mr Bassil A MARDELLI

.....tragic history revisited....

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2006

Researchers have recently unearthed `directives' sent from Heinrich Himmler to Dachau, and Mauthausen concentration camps to the effect that all inmates were to be bathed in showers providing insecticides, their heads cleared of hair, their heavy garments that bore Wool Collars were to be burned outright. The reason for such directives was to prevent lice, and leprosy from spreading among all other inmate prisoners.

Gypsies, Polish, Slavs, Soviets (Christians and Jews) who had been incarcerated during the war and routed into the five main Concentration Camps, {which had been established throughout the years 1933 to 1939}, were in their majority suffering lice parasite, notably on youngsters. Himmler ruled "they should be showered in insecticides twice per week in order to remove the nits attached to their hair - difficult to remove without specialized products."

Many inmates were homosexuals' prisoners of war, suffering from venereal diseases - transmissible. This parasite was widely spreading at the time Germany was lacking enough doctors to take care of the prevention process or even to guard against casual means of transmission.

Most doctors were preoccupied with war related engagements; on their priority list was first and foremost to take care of injuries from battles, research, and the last was to worry about concentration camps per se, unless in absolute emergencies like `fear that certain virus might not be contained and would be causing widespread damage'.

In very few pages of this book did the author speak of Concentration Camps - dispersed on ten pages? Even there he did it casually in the context that ""workers were rushed to construct a mysterious political concentration camp at a pastoral village called Dachau...."" """Every train entering Denmark was crowded with German Jewish refugees..""" indicative that the `Transfer' from Germany to Palestine (in transit through neutral Europe - France had fallen by then) gives credence to this book.

Perhaps written books on the `Pogrom' will soon be revisited and be traced back with more up to date material on these most fateful human tragedies of WWII.

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Joshua Wander

Deeply disturbing...A must read!

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2000

This book is insightful and profound. Even though it is disturbing, I think that it sheds light in a unique way on one of the darkest periods of our history. Anyone who wants a better understanding of Holocaust history must read this book!

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