The transcripts were released to the public last month and include the interrogation of Efraim Zetler, a member of the pre-[1948] state Lehi Zionist militia, who was kidnapped by Haganah fighters in 1942. The Haganah, formed in 1920, was another Zionist paramilitary.

“We will communicate with any military power ready to help with the establishment of the kingdom of Israel, even if it’s Germany,” Zetler told the interrogators. “The only condition is that we get weapons, so we can rebel against the English,” he added.

“If Germany agrees to help us fight enemy number 1, the English, we’ll team up with it,” he continued, saying about [the Third Reich]: “It’s not an enemy of the Jews in Israel.”

In its article, Haaretz revealed information that dispelled the Zionist narrative of Palestinian collaboration with [the Third Reich].

Zetler was interrogated roughly two weeks following the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, where [Axis] officials deliberated on the execution of the Final Solution. Securing [the Reich’s] support is believed to have been suggested two years prior by Avraham Stern, the Lehi leader who championed aggressive opposition to British governance.

According to Haaretz, Lehi agents met with an official from [Berlin’s] foreign ministry in Beirut at the end of 1940.

The document that was presented suggested various strategies, including a partnership between [a] Jewish militia and the [Third Reich].

In the document, it was proposed that Lehi actively participate in the war alongside Germany, arguing that a mutual interest existed between the “German perspective and the authentic national ambitions of the Jewish people”.

“The establishment of the historical Jewish state on a totalitarian national basis, in an alliance relationship with the German Reich, is compatible with the preservation of German power,” the document stated.

According to Haaretz, the [Third Reich] did not respond.