The Madagascar Plan

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Remember how some very observant people have pointed out how if you flip a world map upside down, Marley lines up very well with South Africa, and Paradis with Madagascar?

There’s an interesting thing about this: in the real world, The Madagascar Plan was a plan proposed by the government of Nazi Germany to relocate (kind way to put it) the Jewish population to Madagascar.

The island was a French colony at the time that the plan was proposed, but France was very close to falling. The idea was to make them hand over Madagascar when they were forced to surrender, then ship away the Jews to Madagascar, where many of them would likely die due to the environmental conditions there.

The plan didn’t work out: the British blocked their ships from getting down there. So they turned toward the Final Solution instead.

Put this one into the Isayama Likes His WWII Parallels An Awful Lot and Isayama Is A Huge Military History Dork files.