The Madagascar Plan, July 1940 The Jewish Question in the Peace Treaty The approaching victory gives Germany the possibility, and in my view also the duty, of solving the Jewish question in Europe. The desirable solution is: all Jews out of Europe. The task of the Foreign Ministry in this is:. MADAGASCAR PLAN The next plan for a 'solution to the Jewish question' in Europe was born in the spring of 1940 and connected with Germany's subsequent conquests. Success on the western front meant that by the middle of the year the German Nazis had several million Jews under control.
Madagascar lies off the east coast of Africa. The Madagascar Plan (German: Madagaskarplan) was a plan proposed by the Nazi German government to forcibly relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar. Franz Rademacher, head of the Jewish Department of the German Foreign Office, proposed the idea in June 1940, shortly before the Fall of France. The proposal called for the.. Other articles where Madagascar Plan is discussed: Wannsee Conference:.Jews to the island of Madagascar, off of Africa, was abandoned as impractical in wartime. Instead, the newly planned final solution would entail rounding up all Jews throughout Europe, transporting them eastward, and organizing them into labour gangs. The work and living conditions would be sufficiently hard as to fell…