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Ocelot II

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3. Look up the Nazis' Madagascar Plan.
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 10:59 AM
Jul 2025

The Nazis' original intent was not to kill the Jews in Germany but to deport them to someplace where they could not thrive and become powerful, and Madagascar was suggested (it had previously been considered by 19th-century anti-Semites). When discrimination and the sporadic violence that began soon after the Nazis assumed power in the early '30s was insufficient to persuade enough Jews to leave Germany voluntarily, a plan was was hatched in 1940 to negotiate with France, as a condition of surrender, the use of their colony of Madagascar, to be governed as a police state, for resettlement of the remaining Jews. The deportees' assets would be seized to pay for the project. The plan was abandoned when Germany failed to seize the British Merchant Marine intended as a means of transporting the deportees, and Britain took control of the island from Vichy France.

When the Nazis' plan to remove all the Jews from Germany finally fell apart (and another plan to ship them to Siberia having also collapsed when they were unable to defeat the USSR), they decided instead to exterminate them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan

If Gestapo Barbie and Tom Holman don't meet Stephen Miller's deportation quotas because of court orders and transportation logistics, what's next? If they're at the removing/relocating stage and there's no "Madagascar" to send them to?

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