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The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & a Rescue from Nazi Germany (American Heritage) by Robert H. Gillette is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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With a forward by Elizabeth Thalhimer Smartt, learn about William Thalhimer's elaborate plan to save Jewish Germans from Hitler and the Third Reich. During Hitler's rise to power in the 1930's, Richmond department store founder, William Thalhimer and his family traveled to Germany to visit relatives and business contacts. Thalhimer was deeply disturbed and increasingly alarmed as the anti-Semitism that he and his family witnessed escalated into the violence Brown Shirts and Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. Thalhimer became determined to aid Jews fleeing from Germany, and he eventually met a representative of Gross Breesen, a German-Jewish agricultural training institute. The mission of Gross Breesen, and eventually Thalhimer, was to train young Jews in agriculture in hopes that the expertise gained would ensure the students' successful emigration from Germany. Thalhimer purchased a farm, Hyde Farmlands, in Burkeville, Virginia to give the students a home in Virginia.

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Author

Robert H. Gillette

Publisher

<<The>> History Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781614230984

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Historical Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.2 / 5 (94 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14