There are some misconceptions here that /u/commiespaceinvader 's answer of theirs on the Madagascar plan clears up. The long and the short of it is that this particular plan was the brainchild of the Foreign Office and had only a very brief lifespan. So it was not a proposal bandied about by the German government but rather by an increasingly sidelined state agency that sought to make itself more relevant. The SS was already conceptualizing more immediate solutions to Europe's Jewish population while the Foreign Office was shopping around the Madagascar plan. Finally, it also must be stressed that the Madagascar option was not forced migration. The planned space in Madagascar for Europe's several million Jews could only accommodate a fraction of such a population. It would have been a genocide by starvation and neglect. In this way it was not that much different from the plans developed in 1941 by the SS in which Polish and other Jewish populations would be exterminated through hard labor after the successful conclusion of Barbarossa.

So Madagascar was never a benign option for solving the Jewish question.