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Source: http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/162914/yehuda-bauer-sets-record-straight-hitler-and-zionism
Setting the Record Straight on Hitler and Zionism
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Daniel Sugarman - Yehuda Bauer, professor of Holocaust Studies at Hebrew University, responded Tuesday to former London Mayor Ken Livingstone's remark that Hitler had supported Zionism. "The Nazi policy from 1933, when they reached power, was to get rid of the Jews of Germany. They did not yet plan the Holocaust. They wanted the Jews to emigrate and if they didn't emigrate voluntarily, to expel them. The Zionist movement in Palestine at the time wanted to rescue these Jews." "The British government, in 1938-1939, agreed to the absorption in Britain of close to 10,000 Jewish children - the Kindertransport - from Germany, Austria and later from the occupied Czech lands until the outbreak of war. This was done with the agreement of the German government; they wanted to get rid of Jews, and the British wanted, at that point, to rescue children. Does that mean that the British and Nazi governments were in collusion?"