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in the “political baiting and economic boycott against Germany.” 139 Jews should be
resettled not in their own State, such as Palestine, but rather in a “Jewish Reserve.” 140
Hitler remarked that he expected and hoped that the Western democracies that
held “such deep sympathy for these criminals will at least be generous enough to convert
this sympathy into practical aid” and offered to place “all these criminals at the disposal
of other countries…even on luxury ships.” 141 He criticized the West for its complaint of
the “boundless cruelty” of German anti-Jewish policies and noted their failure to offer
“helpful activity…[O]n the contrary, these countries with icy coldness assured us that
obviously there was no place for Jews in their territory…So no help is given, but morality
is saved.” 142 Das Schwarze Korps, the official organ of the S.S., noted that the Reich a
offered to the world a “well assorted stock of Jewish lawyers, well-preserved and well
rested women doctors, specialists for skin and social disease” and a “considerable rebate”
for Jewish business owners, wholesalers and salesmen. 143
The S. D. analyzed the events and accomplishments of the Evian Conference.
The text of the final resolution establishing the London based committee demonstrated
that a “practical and concrete” solution to the Jewish Question was “not possible” at that
time. The statements and qualifications offered by the various delegates confirmed that
139 International Military Tribunal vol. XLI (Exhibit Streicher-8), 545-7 cited in Tenenbaum, Race and
Reich, 240-241.
140 Gerard Reitlinger, The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945
(NY: Beechhurst Press, 1953), 21-22.
141 “Hitler is Pleased to Get Rid of Foes,” New York Times, March 27, 1938, 25.
142 Lyn H. Harper, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler April 1922-August 1939 (Oxford: Oxford Press,
1942), 719-720.
143 Time, April 4, 1938, 11-12.
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