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It's a misunderstanding of several facts. The Nazis did initially have a plan to expel Europe's Jews to Madagascar, and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem did encourage Hitler to fully exterminate the Jews, but the two aren't linked. The Madagascar Plan was abandoned because it was logistically difficult to begin with, and became impossible once the Naziswlonst the Battle of Britain, ensuring that the British would retain control of the seas. The switch from deportation to extermination as official policy occurred in several stages, but systematic murder of entire Jewish communities began during the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, and the goal of eliminating _*all_* Jews was fully embraced at the Wannsee conference in January 1942, after which the extermination camps were established.
The Grand Mufti met with Hitler a little over a month before the Wannsee conference, hence the assumption by some that his encouragement played a part in persuading Hitler to initiate the Holocaust. However, as mentioned before, there were already Nazi death squads operating in occupied Soviet territory at that point, so this claim doesn't hold water.
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It's a misunderstanding of several facts. The Nazis did initially have a plan to expel Europe's Jews to Madagascar, and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem did encourage Hitler to fully exterminate the Jews, but the two aren't linked. The Madagascar Plan was abandoned because it was logistically difficult to begin with, and became impossible once the Nazis
The Grand Mufti met with Hitler a little over a month before the Wannsee conference, hence the assumption by some that his encouragement played a part in persuading Hitler to initiate the Holocaust. However, as mentioned before, there were already Nazi death squads operating in occupied Soviet territory at that point, so this claim doesn't hold water.