'In addition to the Middle East and North Africa, some scholars have claimed that the Nazis had a plan to exterminate the Jews of Shanghai. This claim originated in Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz's 1979 book The Fugu Plan. The supposed extermination plan even has a name, the Meisinger Plan. Allegedly developed by Josef Meisinger, this plan contemplated the extermination of Shanghai's Jews by drowning, overwork, or medical experimentation. But . .the Meisinger plan probably did not exist. It lacks any documentation, is contradicted by contemporaneous Japanese documentation, and relies on a single – and highly problematic – piece of eyewitness testimony.’Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill, Did the Nazis plan to extend the final solution beyond Europe? Assessing the evidence,' Holocaust Studies :A Journal of Culture and History 2 April 2024
