Table of Contents

Zionism in the Age of the Dictators: A Reappraisal
by Lenni Brenner, 1983

Table of Contents - Including subsections which will constitute individual blog postings:

In lieu of a new introduction: Edward Mortimer: Contradiction, collusion and controversy (A review from the London Times) - posted 19 April 2007

Preface - posted 19 April 2007

Chapter 1. Zionism and Anti-Semitism Prior to the Holocaust

--- Zionism and Anti-Semitism Prior to the Holocaust - posted 19 April 2007
--- “Taking the Jews away from the revolutionary parties” - posted 19 April 2007
--- The First World War
--- The Balfour Declaration and the fight against Bolshevism
--- The minority treaties at the Versailles Peace Conference
--- The Zionist alliance with anti-semitism in Eastern Europe
--- Zionist accommodation with anti-semitism

Chapter 2. Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil): The Roots of Racist Zionism

--- Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil): The Roots of Zionist Racism
--- “To be a good Zionist one must be somewhat of an anti-semite”
--- “Grist to the mills of Nazi propaganda”

Chapter 3. German Zionism and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic

--- German Zionism and Collapse of the Weimar Republic
--- “It is right, therefore, that they should fight against us”
--- The Zionist Minorities
--- “Germans of the Mosaic faith are an undesirable, demoralising phenomena”
--- “Liberalism is the enemy; it is also the enemy for Nazism”

Chapter 4. Zionism and Italian Fascism, 1922-1933

--- Zionism and Italian Fascism, 1922-1933
--- “True Jews have never fought against you”
--- Establishment of Relations between Mussolini and Hitler

Chapter 5. German Zionism Offers to Collaborate with Nazism

--- German Zionism offers to collaborate with Nazism
--- “Seeking its own national idealism in the Nazi spirit”
--- “The exclusive control of German Jewish life”

Chapter 6. The Jewish Anti-Nazi Boycott and the Zionist-Nazi Trade Agreement

--- The Jewish Anti-Nazi Boycott and the Zionist-Nazi Trade Agreement
--- The appeal of the blood idea
--- First Dealings with the Nazis
--- The WZO Justifies the Pact with the Nazis
--- “Trying to derive the utmost advantage from it in the Zionist sense”
--- “What Matters in a Situation of this sort is a People’s Moral Stance”

Chapter 7. Hitler Looks at Zionism

--- Hitler Looks at Zionism
--- Nazi Patronage of Zionism
--- “Our official good will go with them”
--- “It was a painful distinction for Zionism to be singled out for favours”
--- Nazi leniency towards Zionism
--- “The Nazis asked for a ‘More Zionist Behaviour’”

Chapter 8. Palestine – The Arabs, Zionists, British and Nazis

--- Palestine – The Arabs, Zionists, British and Nazis
--- “The Haganah’s Goal – A Jewish Majority in Palestine”
--- Zionist Notions of the Future Israel
--- Nazi Admiration for Zionist Efforts in Palestine
--- The failure of the Mufti’s collaboration with the dictators

Chapter 9. The World Jewish Congress

--- The World Jewish Congress
--- “Centers about the Anti-Fascist Struggle Alone”

Chapter 10. Zionist-Revisionism and Italian Fascism

--- Zionist-Revisionism and Italian Fascism
--- “We Want a Jewish Empire”
--- “He had caught a glimpse of the great secret of politically minded peoples”
--- The Jewish Bourgeoisie – the Only Source of our Constructive Capital
--- The Revisionists’ Relations with the Italian Fascists
--- The Revisionists rationalise their links with the fascists
--- “Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our time”

Chapter 11. Revisionism and Nazism

--- Revisionism and Nazism
--- Revisionist Flirtation with the Nazis
--- “The Triple Alliance of Stalin-Ben-Gurion-Hitler”
--- Jabotinsky’s Efforts to Maintain the Boycott
--- “There will be no war”

Chapter 12. Georg Kareski, Hitler's Zionist Quisling Before Quisling

--- Georg Kareski, Hitler’s Zionist Quisling Before Quisling
--- “The Zionists as the ‘Racial Jews’ have at least Given us a Formal Guarantee”
--- “A Jewish Legion to Protect the Jews in Palestine from Attack”

Chapter 13. Choosing the Chosen People – The Doctrine of “Zionist Cruelty”

--- Choosing the Chosen People – The Doctrine of “Zionist Cruelty”
--- “The Cruel Criteria of Zionism”
--- “No Jewish organisation would ... sponsor a bill”
--- “We Are Risking the Existence of Zionism”

Chapter 14. The World Zionist Organisation and Italian Fascism, 1933-1937

--- The World Zionist Organisation and Italian Fascism, 1933-1937
--- “My Third and Last Interview with Mussolini”
--- “I shall be Able to Place at your Disposal a whole Team of Chemists”
--- Goldmann’s Secret Diplomacy
--- “Jewry Remembers with Thanks the Loyalty of the Fascist Government”
--- “So? Is it Good for the Jews?”

Chapter 15. Austria and the “Gentile Friends of Zionism”

--- Austria and the “Gentile Friends of Zionism”
--- “This Great Patriot and Leader of his Country”
--- “We Condemn Dissemination of Atrocity Stories from Austria Abroad”
--- The Folly of Zionist Reliance on the Christian Socials

Chapter 16. The Jewish Parties of Eastern Europe

--- Czechoslovakia – 2.4 Per Cent of an Empire
--- Romania – “Yids to Palestine!”

Chapter 17. Spain – The Nazis Fight, the Zionists Do Not

--- Spain – The Nazis fight, the Zionists do not
--- “The Question is not Why They Went, But Rather Why Didn’t We Go?”

Chapter 18. Zionism's Failure to Fight Nazism in the Liberal Democracies

--- Zionism and the British Union of Fascists
--- Zionism and the German-American Bund

Chapter 19. Zionism and the Japanese East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

--- Zionism and the Japanese East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
--- “An Active Part in the Construction of the New Order of East Asia”
--- Verdict: the Zionists Collaborated with the Enemy of the Chinese People

Chapter 20. Poland, 1918-1939

--- Poland, 1918-1939
--- “The workers have not been contaminated”
--- Electoral Victories that Lead Nowhere
--- “I wish that a million Polish Jews might be slaughtered”
--- The Failure of the Socialists and the Betrayal of the Zionists

Chapter 21. Zionism in Holocaust Poland

--- Zionism in Holocaust Poland
--- The working class does not capitulate
--- The Zionist leadership disperses
--- The Judenrats
--- “The parties haven’t any right to give us orders”
--- “Jews dream of getting into me homes of workers”

Chapter 22. Zionist Collusion with the Polish Government-in-Exile

--- Zionist collusion with the Polish government-in-exile
--- “Those of Moses’ Faith Step Forward”
--- Zionist Acceptance of Anti-Semitism in the Polish Army

Chapter 23. Illegal Immigration

--- Illegal Immigration
--- “Priority Went to Members of our own Betar”
--- “Whom a Jewish homeland in the process of construction needs most”
--- “They will co-operate with us in matters in which we are vitally interested”
--- Dogs fight dogs, but they unite against the wolf

Chapter 24. The Wartime Failure to Rescue

--- The Wartime Failure to Rescue
--- Wise suppresses news about extermination of Jews
--- “There is no Need to Reveal Them in Public”
--- “For only with Blood shall we get the land”
--- Minimal Response to the Extermination
--- The Emergency Committee
--- The Irgun Revolt in 1944
--- “We must not disturb the war effort ... by stormy protests”

Chapter 25. Hungary, the Crime Within a Crime

--- Hungary, the Crime within a Crime
--- “They ... begged them to hush up the matter”
--- “Hardly likely to achieve the salvation of the victims”
--- “He agreed to help keep the Jews from resisting deportation”
--- “Are we therefore to be called traitors?”
--- Who helped kill 450,000 Jews?

Chapter 26. The Stern Gang

--- The Stern Gang
--- “The historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis”

Appendix: Stern Gang: Proposal of Irgun Zvai Leumi Concerning the Solution of the Jewish Question and Participation in the War on the Side of Germany (1941) (The German original)

Glossary of Jewish and Zionist Organisations

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