Reply #41: Three reasons [View All]

[rockymountaindem]

Firstly, the allies wanted a strong, united Germany as a bulwark against the Communists. The French were originially against this, but as the French Communist party gained in popularity in the immediate postwar period, their conservative government realized that Germany would be a good way to keep the commies at arm's length.

Secondly, because after the Holocaust, why would the Jews want to live in Germany? Furthermore, giving away part of Germany to the Jews would have made a lot of Germans think that Hitler was right, and that the "world Jewish conspiracy" really was plotting to weaken Germany, this at the time we were trying to de-Nazify the country.

Thirdly, because world Zionism had been trying to establish the Jewish homeland in the area of the former Jewish kingdom for over 50 years at that point, and the world community along with the Zionists identified Jews with the Biblical Jewish homeland. Establishing the Jewish state in Germany was never even concieved of as far as I know.

As an interesting side note, Stalin created a "Jewish homeland" in the USSR along the Sino-Soviet border in the 1930s. He hoped that all the world's Jewish communists would move there, thereby populating a militarily strategic area and fortifying it against Chinese and Japanese attack, as well as supposedly getting the Jews to move away from the power centers of the USSR in the West. Hardly any Jews immigrated there, and they never became the majority of the population. Jews of the Diaspora really wanted to move back to the Mideast, and didn't really care to pick up sticks just to move to yet another far-away land.