Why did the Nazi regime encourage Jewish emigration from Germany before World War II?

The Nazi regime encouraged Jewish emigration before World War II as part of its broader goal to establish a Volksgemeinschaft (a racially pure national community) and to rid Germany of those they characterized as "racial polluters" and a "cancer" on the body politic.12

Guided by a virulent racial ideology, the Nazis sought to systematically exclude Jews from German society. By promoting emigration, the regime aimed to achieve the "removal of the Jews altogether" from Germany, a core objective of their antisemitic agenda. This policy was driven by the desire to purify the German race and eliminate the perceived influence of Jewish values, which Hitler claimed undermined the natural order and the strength of the "master race".12

While the Nazis initially facilitated this forced emigration, they simultaneously stripped departing Jews of their assets, often requiring them to leave without money or possessions. As the regime expanded its territory, however, it brought millions more Jews under its control, eventually shifting from policies of forced emigration to the systematic mass murder known as the "final solution".34