[3.9. NS poverty
methods against the Jews in the Third
Reich]
[Jews can take out capital - Methods to spread
anti-Semitism and to impoverish the Jews: Rich Jews are robbed step by
step]
The problem of Jews being able to take out enough capital to start a
new life outside of Germany occupied JDC's attention to a large degree.
The Germans had no interest in this, of course, because
-- one of their aims in pressing for Jewish
emigration was to spread anti-Semitism abroad by dumping poor Jews on
unwilling countries;
-- another aim was to use the money of rich Jews to get rid (p.127)
of the poor ones;
-- and a third [aim] was to squeeze the Jews dry before they were
allowed out of the country.
The fact that all this stood in contradiction to the Nazi aim of
ridding Germany of as many Jews as possible did not bother the Germans.
But whenever it was possible to gain a commercial or political
advantage, or whenever foreign pressure made it a desirable thing to
yield on the question of allowing the emigration of Jewish capital, the
Nazis might relent. [?]
