Σχέδιο Μαδαγασκάρη: Διαφορά μεταξύ των αναθεωρήσεων

The '''Madagascar Plan''' was a suggested policy of the [[Third Reich]] government of [[Nazism|Nazi]] Germany to forcibly relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of [[Madagascar]].<ref name="contemplation">Browning, Christopher R. ''The Origins of the Final Solution.'' 2004. Page 81</ref>

The evacuation of European Jewry to the island of Madagascar was not a new concept. [[Henry Hamilton Beamish]], [[Arnold Leese]], [[Lord Moyne]], German scholar [[Paul de Lagarde]] and the British, French, and Polish governments had all contemplated the idea.<ref name="contemplation">Browning, Christopher R., The Origins of the Final Solution. 2004. Page 81</ref> Nazi Germany seized upon it, and in May 1940, in his ''Reflections on the Treatment of Peoples of Alien Races in the East'', [[Heinrich Himmler]] declared: "I hope that the concept of Jews will be completely extinguished through the possibility of a large emigration of all Jews to Africa or some other colony."

An ambitious bureaucrat named [[Franz Rademacher]], recently appointed leader of the ''Judenreferat III der Abteilung Deutschland'', or Jewish Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, set the plan in motion on June 3, 1940 with a memorandum to his superior [[Martin Luther (diplomat)|Martin Luther]]. The memorandum included a definition of the mechanics of Jewish evacuation out of Europe. Rademacher espoused the division of eastern and western Jews. The eastern Jews, he felt, were the source of the "militant Jewish intelligentsia", and should be kept close at hand in [[Lublin]], Poland, to be used as a kind of hostage to keep American Jews in check. The western Jews, he went on, should be removed from Europe entirely, "to Madagascar, for example."<ref name="example">Browning, Christopher R. ''The Origins of the Final Solution.'' 2004. Page 83</ref>