Zionist militia frequently contacted Nazi Germany, Israeli documents reveal

Declassified Israeli archives reveal the Stern Gang's attempts to forge a wartime alliance with Nazi Germany, driven by a shared goal of expelling the British from Palestine. | Contesto: cronaca

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Recently declassified documents from Israeli state archives have confirmed that the radical Zionist militia known as the Stern Gang made multiple, direct attempts to forge a partnership with Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The files, reported by the newspaper Haaretz, detail efforts by the group's founder, Avraham Stern, and his associates to establish contact with German officials, motivated by a common enemy: the British authorities governing Mandatory Palestine. The revelations are based on internal Haganah intelligence records, including a 1941 report titled "Contacts with the Axis," which documented the militia's outreach to the fascist powers. The core of the proposed alliance, as laid out in the documents, was a convergence of interests. Stern and his followers believed that Nazi Germany's policy of expelling Jews from Europe could be harnessed to realize Zionist aims of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. A 1951 document quotes Stern Gang member Naftali Lubenchik as believing the Nazis sought not the "physical destruction of the Jewish people, but rather their expulsion from Europe and their concentration in one place." One proposal from the group argued for an "active partnership" in the war, citing "shared interests between German policy and Jewish national aspirations" and envisioning a future alliance between a Jewish state and the German Reich. This strategy placed the Stern Gang in direct opposition to the mainstream Zionist leadership. While the larger paramilitary organizations, the Haganah and the Irgun, observed a truce with British forces to focus on the fight against Hitler, Stern's faction continued its violent campaign against British and even rival Jewish targets. In May 1941, Eliyahu Golomb, the de facto commander of the Haganah, warned a small gathering about intelligence pointing to a Jewish group with "connections with the enemy," explicitly identifying "S"—Stern—as the man who had contacted the Germans. The Haganah subsequently monitored the group closely and even hunted its members. The ideological rationale for Stern's shocking overtures is detailed in the archival material. He is described as viewing Britain as a...

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