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The
following agreement has been made with the Jewish
organizations concerned to enable German Jews to
continue to emigrate to Palestine with the aid of
allocations of the required funds, but without making
excessive demands on the foreign-currency reserves of
the Reichsbank. At the same time, German exports to
Palestine will be increased.
Emigrants
may obtain an endorsement from the Emigrants Advisory
Bureau to the effect that they require additional
sums, over and above the minimum of LP 1,000 required
for capitalist immigrants, which are necessary and
adequate for the establishment of a livelihood in
Palestine. This endorsement with respect to funds
exceeding RM 15,000 [then equivalent to LP 1,000] will
authorize them to pay the additional sum into Special
Account I of the "Bank of the Temple
Society" Ltd., established by the
Reichshauptbank, in favor of a Jewish Trust Company to
be established in Palestine (and in favor of the
Anglo-Palestine Bank Ltd. until such time as the Trust
Co. is established). For the time being a total of RM
3 million has been budgeted for Special Account I
together with Special Account II, referred to below.
Both will be administered by the Temple Society Bank
as a Trust Account for the above Jewish Trust Co.
Exports of German goods to Palestine will be paid for
through this account. Funds accruing from the sale of
the German goods in Palestine will be paid out by the
Palestinian Trust Company in Palestine Pounds to the
emigrants in accordance with their payments in
Germany, and in the order and relative sums in which
these payments were made into Special Account I. A
"Palestine Trust Co. to Advise German Jews
Ltd." has been established at Friedrichstrasse
218, Berlin, to advise German Jews in matters
concerning this form of capital transfer to Palestine.
I would request that when endorsements are issued the
applicants [for such transfers] be emphatically
advised to visit this office.
In
addition, a Special Account II has been opened for the
Bank of the Temple Society in the Reichshauptbank. The
German Foreign Currency Authorities may, on
application, give permission for the payment of sums
up to a maximum of RM 50,000 per person to German
citizens of Jewish nationality (Volkstum) who
are not yet emigrating but nevertheless wish already
to establish a home in Palestine. (These funds will
also be paid in to the credit of a Jewish German Trust
Company which is to be established in Palestine and to
the Anglo-Palestine Bank Ltd. until this Trust Co. has
been set up.) Special Account II, like Special Account
I, will be used to pay for German exports to
Palestine, with the difference that this account will
be made use of only after Special Account I has been
entirely disbursed. Special Account II may also be
used by emigrants for deposits in excess of the sums
authorized on their behalf as adequate by the
Emigrants Advisory Organization, but also in no case
more than RM 50,000 per person (including sums
allocated in foreign currency).
L.
Pinner, "Vermoegenstransfer nach Palaestina
1933-1939" ("Transfer of Capital to
Palestine 1933-1939"), In zwei Welten
Siegfried Moses zum fuenfundsiebzigsten Geburstag
("In Two Worlds for Siegfried Moses on His 75th
Birthday"), Tel Aviv, 1962, pp. 138-139.
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Transfer of Jewish property to Palestine.
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