Theos-Talk Archives (June 2002 Message tt00178)

I typed "haavara" into google.com, and found scores of sites 
including the following supposedly owned by Simon Wiesenthal:

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/pages/t028/t02846.html

Wiesenthal, who presumably is not a Nazi, says the story is true. 
The Zionists (who did not represent all Jews in 1933 by any means) 
saw the world boycott against German goods which was motivated by 
German persecution of Jews, as an opportunity to promote their own 
interests by importing German goods into Palestine, and to that end 
they cut a deal with Hitler's government.

Anyway, read about it and decide for yourself. It is surprising that 
this incident, which must have been seen by some as treacherous, was 
covered up until fairly recently.