A strange coin of dubious value
The odd tale of “A Nazi travels to Palestine”
A strange coin of dubious value
This tiny brass coin (3.5 centimeters in diameter) features a Star of David, with the words “A Nazi travels to Palestine,” on one side and a swastika on the other.
The coin is a relic left behind from a twisted alliance between Zionist Jews who saw the Nazis drive to get rid of Germany’s Jews as an opportunity encourage immigration to Palestine.
One of them, Kurt Tuchler, a judge and central member in the Zionist Federation of Germany, reached out to Nazi officials to see if there might be common ground. There was, and plenty of it.
Tuchler found an ally in Leopold von Mildenstein, the head of the Jewish Desk at the security service of the SS.
Tuchler encouraged Mildenstein to take a trip to Palestine, then under British rule, hoping that Mildenstein, also known as a writer, would compose a travel record arguing why this location was an appropriate place for Jews to immigrate to.
Tuchler and Mildenstein travelled to Palestine together in 1933. Subsequently Mildenstein, who was an accomplished author, wrote at length about the efforts of Jews to fulfill a Zionist dream by developing backwards Palestine in a record of this journey.
The material was seized upon by Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda, who used it to demonstrate that the Nazi stance towards Jews was justified by the thinking of the Jews themselves.
Mildenstein wrote twelve essays, under the title “A Nazi travels to Palestine,” that appeared in the Nazi mouthpiece Der Angriff ("The Attack") in 1934. Goebbels wanted to show the overwhelming approval of the Nazi Party for the immigration to Palestine of Jews.
The Nazi Party produced these brass coins as a free gift to anyone who purchased a subscription to the magazine.
The grotesque cooperation between Zionist political operatives and fascists who were determined to destroy the Jews, to blame them for every ill in society, did not end in 1934. Sadly, we see the same abominable covert alliance between Zionist politicians, who would force Jews to choose their militant side for survival, and fascistic forces, whether the antisemites advocating the “great replacement theory” in the US, the ultranationalists in Poland, Hungary, and Russia who attack Jews, or the antisemitic political campaigns against Jews carried on in the Middle East as a means to distract from the extreme concentration of wealth. That choice is being forced on people by active collaboration with these reactionary forces.
These twisted alliances form the backbone of an organized drive to force Jews in Israel, and around the world, to fall back on the defenses of a sophisticated military, industrial, IT, intelligence complex headquartered in Tel Aviv that is absolutely ruthless. This time, the war on Gaza is ground zero for the plan to create such a backlash against Jews globally that these mercenaries will have enormous business opportunities protecting Jewish populations in Israel, and literally everywhere in the world.
For a detailed description of the dangerous moves by the Israeli right to cultivate relations with the far right around the world, see Antony Loewenstein’s article “Palling around with anti-Jewish bigots: Israel's deep and growing ties to the global far-right reflects a disturbing comfort with extremism”
Loewnenstein notes,
“These alliances are sometimes based on convenience - eg. Israel wants to sell weapons or surveillance tech and doesn’t care who’ll use them - or at times is more ideological with like-minded partners who are anti-gay, anti-refugees, anti-Islam, anti-feminist and yes, anti-Semitic.
This upcoming conference in Spain will reveal some of the most vocal backers of Israel in the world (beyond Western states such as the US, UK etc); far-right extremists, including with neo-Nazi backgrounds, who traditionally loathe Jews.
At a time of mass carnage in Gaza and rampant colonial criminality in the West Bank, the idea that Israel is increasingly partnering with extremist political parties from the West to India is a deep cause of concern and must be robustly challenged.”
What is clear is that this dangerous, even treasonous, activity has a long history, dating back to the twisted friendship of Kurt Tuchler and the SS leader Leopold von Mildenstein.
This coin was sold at the Israeli auction house CollecTodo in 2001 (source).
Fascinating, disturbing important obscure history that should be better known and that helps to explain current evildoing.
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