1991/12/01 by Paul Lawrence Rose · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Negotiation #German #Political science #Judaism #Interim #Agency (philosophy) #Law #Nazism #Economic history #History #Sociology #Archaeology #Social science
paper · doi:10.1017/s0018246x00017350
openalex publication_date 1991/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Recent archival research has elucidated the German purpose in sending Joel Brand to Istanbul in May 1944 to negotiate the exchange of Hungarian jews for ‘goods’. Himmler's aim was to enlist the zionist leadership in an effort to detach the western allies from Russia and obtain a separate peace. It is also known now that the allies were initially willing to ‘keep the door open’ by negotiation, but suddenly broke off contacts in July. And we know too how Moshe Shertok – the jewish agency's ‘foreign secretary’ – was tricked by a British promise that Brand would be allowed after meeting him in Aleppo to return to Budapest.