At the beginning of his rule, Hitler considered banishing the Jews of Europe to Jewish reservations. An early proposal suggested sending as many as 4,000,000 European Jews to the African island of Madagascar. Another reservation was proposed for 15,000,000 Jews in the area around Lublin in occupied Poland. But ultimately, the Nazi authorities settled on their Final Solution of mass extermination to remove all Jews from European society.
The Nazis were not the only ones to consider establishing Jewish reservations. As an alternative to accepting Jewish refugees, some governments suggested creating Jewish reservations in Rhodesia, British Guyana, Kenya, Portuguese Angola, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, and even sparsely-populated Alaska. None of these plans materialized, and few governments were ultimately willing to help the fleeing Jews.
