Here are the transcripts of Livingstone's recent interviews, including with Vanessa Feltz.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7005311.html
and I snatched this comment from a friend on FB
"The existence of the Haavara agreement is not in dispute. Holding it up as an example of Hitler supporting Zionism however is a grotesque misrepresentation. Hitler had made it clear in Mein Kampf that he believed Jewish people should be exterminated. At the time of the Haavara agreement /jewish people in Germany were already subject to dreadful discrimination and prejudice. This had resulted in a Jewish boycott of all of Nazi Germany. Many of the Nazis in the top echelon feared this was going to derail their nascent economy and so they came up with the agreement as a means to both rid themselves of some Jews and to try and appease the international community. For the privelege of leaving their homes and friends Jewish people had to pay a large sum of money and give up all their possessions. About 60'000 made it out of Germany this way before it became untenable and the Holocaust began. Hitler's support for the scheme was luke warm at best.
To use the above to describe Hitler as either a Zionist or Zionist supporter is repugnantas Mr. Livingstone, I have no doubt, is well aware. The Haarva agreement has been used for decades to try and paint Jewish people as somehow complicit with the Nazis as opposed to their victims atempting to flee."