Jan Masaryk and the Palestinian solution: solving the German, Jewish, and statelessness questions in West Central Europe

This article uses varied sources from early to mid-1940s to demonstrate how Jan Masaryk''s understanding of the postwar Jewish questions, namely who belongs to the Jewish people and where do these Jewish people belong geographically, cannot be separated from broader questions regarding German belonging to Czechoslovak body politic.Masaryk's postwar commitment to enabling Jewish movement away from east central Europe and towards ethnicized polity is best understood within the context of the overall ethnic revolution which gripped the region between Berlin and Moscow across the 1940s.