Two identical medallions (different shade of metal) struck in honor of the series of articles "A Nazi Travels to Palestine" published in the Nazi journal "Der Angriff" ("The Attack"). A memento of the cooperation between the Nazi party and the German Zionist Federation, in their mutual goal of relocating German Jews to Palestine ("Ha'avara"). Germany, 1934.
Obverse: A Star of David surrounded by the German legend "A Nazi travels to Palestine" (Ein Nazi fährt nach Palästina). Reverse: swastika and the legend: "And he writes about it in The Attack" (Und erzählt davon in Angriff).
In the beginning of the Nazi rule in Germany, the Zionist Movement was inclined to cooperate with the line adopted by the Nazi government in its early days - encouraging immigration of German Jews to Eretz Israel. In the spring of 1933 the German Zionist Association decided to contact elements within the Nazi party who might support the Zionist cause. Kurt Tuchler, a Jewish-German jurist and judge, member of the managing committee of the German Zionist Federation, contacted Leopold von Mildenstein, head of the Jewish department of the SD (Security Service of the Nazi Party and the SS) and asked him to write in the Nazi press about the Jewish settlement in Eretz Israel. In 1933, the two men traveled to Eretz Israel with their wives, for one month, to let von Mildenstein to get an impression of the booming Zionist operations. In a report Tuchler delivered to Yad VaShem years later he wrote: "The purpose of the visit was to create in an important Nazi paper an image which will promote the construction operations in Eretz Israel". Upon his return to Germany von Mildenstein pusblished a series of 12 illustrated articles about his visit to Eretz Israel in the Nazi journal Der Angriff ("The Attack"), the mouthpiece of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minster. The articles were titled "A Nazi Travels to Palestine". To commemorate the series of articles Goebbels struck this medallion.
Diameter: 35 mm.