Can Google Translate compare?

News pounding on our notification centers makes the severity of the situation hard to realize at the present time. Information flow and their intensity make it hard to realize the slope we've been slipping down. Suffocating as if tumbling under a wave, stretching up for some air, come to these moments when it seems I am losing orientation as we slip further and further into the abyss. I take occasional screengrabs, to freeze the spiral dive we seem to take part in, and realize my big fears which were prematurely awoken during my first visit to Germany in 2008, are now full-blown - just as I feared would happen. Associations as a reporter named "Eichner" spread this little message in the updating flow of events in a popular news desk in Israel.

I had to translate it into English, and then into German...Just to see if any of this might sound somewhat familiar.

Finally, a short chat with GPT, helped me remember so much of what I have learned in recent years.

screengrab from y-net

screengrab from y-net translated to English

screengrab from y-net translated to German

"Voluntary Departure" hmmm my DNA is unsettled from this word combination So I used it to check our not so far history, and this is what GPT had to say to me:

Q: Did Nazi representatives ever look into voluntary departure methods for the Jews?

A: Yes, in the years before the Holocaust escalated to mass extermination, Nazi officials did explore various "voluntary" emigration schemes for Jews—though these were typically coercive and exploitative, not truly voluntary.

Here are a few key examples:

1. Encouragement of Jewish Emigration (1933–1939)

From the moment the Nazis came to power in 1933 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, their main policy toward Jews was forced emigration. They created such unbearable conditions—social exclusion, economic destruction, and violent persecution—that many Jews felt compelled to leave Germany and Austria.

• The Nisko Plan (1939): A Nazi plan to relocate Jews from Germany and Austria to a reservation in the Lublin district of occupied Poland. It was eventually abandoned, but it reflects a kind of coerced "resettlement" idea.

• The Madagascar Plan (1940): After the fall of France, Nazi officials, including Adolf Eichmann, seriously considered deporting European Jews to Madagascar. This was never implemented, partly due to logistical impossibility and wartime realities.

  
  

2. Haavara Agreement (1933–1939)

This was an agreement between Nazi Germany and Zionist German Jews to allow some Jews to emigrate to Palestine. In exchange, part of their assets could be transferred there via German exports. While controversial, it enabled around 50,000 Jews to escape Germany.

3. Evian Conference (1938)

Although initiated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to address the growing refugee crisis, the Nazis used the international community's refusal to take in large numbers of Jews as propaganda—portraying Jews as unwanted by the entire world.

Important Context:

Even during these years of "emigration," the Nazis imposed severe restrictions, stole Jewish property, and treated those leaving as a burden to be rid of, not as citizens deserving dignity. Once WWII started, and particularly after 1941, Nazi policy shifted toward mass murder, and any remaining options for emigration were closed.

Would you like to go deeper into any of these plans or the personal experiences of Jews who tried to emigrate?

There would be points to argue as for the few differences in the 2 situations. but I think they would only serve as a marginal point, spinning the essence and context into some detached argument.

This is too hard to bear. It has been going on for too long, and all signs tell me we are going to head to worse times. 💔