How well did the creators of the animated movie Madagascar portray the Island of Madagascar?

• The official name of Madagascar is the Republic of Madagascar.

• Madagascar is an island country, off the east coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean.

• Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world.

• From 1895 France governed Madagascar. In 1960, the country became a fully independent country called the Malagasy Republic. It became the Democratic Republic of Madagascar in 1975 and the Republic of Madagascar in 1993.

• The capital of Madagascar is Antananarivo, home to over 2 million people.

• The official languages of Madagascar are Malagasy and French.

• Madagascar is home to over 22 million people (22,599,098) as of July 2013.

• The highest mountain in Madagascar is Maromokotro at 2876 m (9436 ft).

• Madagascar is classed as one of the world’s 17 megadiverse countries that are considered to be home to the majority of the worlds biodiversity. Over 70% of the 250,000 wildlife species found in Madagascar are found nowhere else in the world. While 90% of the estimated 14,000 plants native to Madagascar are also found nowhere else.

• The lemur is only found in the wild in Madagascar. As of 2012, there were 103 living species of lemur in Madagascar, including sub-species. The majority of these are classified as rare or endangered. Several species of lemur such as the giant lemur have become extinct in the past, mainly due to extensive deforestation.

• The unique ecology of Madagascar has led some scientists to refer to the country as the “eighth continent” of the world.

• Madagascar has the 3rd largest coral reef system in the world, the Toliara coral reef, off the south-western coast.

• Madagascar is one of the world’s main suppliers of vanilla and cloves, while coffee, lychees and shrimp are also important agriculturally. The country currently provides half of the world’s supply of sapphires and produces a number of other precious and semi-precious stones.

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TURNING OF THE BONES

MADAGASCAR AND THE JEWS

THE MADAGASCAR PLAN

“The approaching victory gives Germany the possibility, and in my view also the duty, of solving the Jewish question in Europe. The desirable solution is: all Jews out of Europe.” That was how Franz Rademacher, head of the German Foreign Office’s “Jewish desk,” began a memo to the Nazi high command in the summer of 1940. In the document that followed, he spelled out an audacious plan to banish millions of European Jews to the African island of Madagascar. The scheme called for the Jews to have their European citizenship revoked and their property and personal fortunes seized to help fund a new “super-ghetto” in the Indian Ocean. Once resettled, they would languish under the rule of a Nazi SS police force. Rademacher argued that the island reservation could be spun as propaganda to show the world the “generosity” of the German people. On an even more sinister note, he pointed out that “the Jews will remain in German hands as a pledge for the future good behavior of the members of their race in America.” The Jews on Madagascar would not just be exiles—they would also be hostages.

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