Madagascar Plan

• The Madagascar plan was a scheme devised in the late 1930's for the resettlement of the Jewish population in Germany. 
• In December 1938, the French Foreign Minister informed Ribbentropp that if they were to rid France of 10,000 Jews, they would have to put them somewhere. 
• In March 1938, Eichmann, the chief of emigrating the Jewish peoples, created a document for Heydrich highlighting "a foreign policy solution". This was of course the Madagascar Plan, which was put aside during the war before the success of the German army in France during the summer of 1940.   
• Eichmann developed a detailed report on the island of Madagascar, based on knowledge given to him from the French foreign office. Whether Madagascar was a suitable place didn't concern the Nazis, as they didnt care for their well being.  His plan was to ship 4 million Jews within 4 years to the island, advocating the "police reserve" to be a giant ghetto. This would be financed by a bank managing confiscated property from Jews as well as contributions exacted from the world of Jewry. 
• In August 1940, the Reich officially endorsed the Madagascar Plan, to which the American Jewish Committee published a special report in May 1941 highlighting how they would not be able to live there. By that time though, another plan had been created - the "Final Solution" which meant the annihilation of the Jews.
• In the end no Jews were shipped to Madagascar, but if they were there tropical disease and starvation would overcome them alongside the brutality of the SS. This is why many historians argue that sending them there would of been a death sentence in itself, let alone the Holocaust.