Pathfinder wrote:
> By Brian Murphy for World War II Magazine
> The idea of Jews fighting for Adolf Hitler seems wildly improbable. On
> seeing the title of Bryan Mark Rigg's book, you might imagine there
were,=
at
> most, 50 to 60 such men who served in the Wehrmacht and thus escaped the
> horrors of the Holocaust. In fact, about 150,000 Germans of at least 25
> percent Jewish descent spent time in the Wehrmacht. Many of them served
w=
ith
> great distinction, many were true German patriots-and many fought with
the
> express written permission of Adolf Hitler.
>
> Rigg, a former Israeli soldier and U.S. Marine officer, has do***ented
an
> aspect of World War II that almost defies belief.
No, it doesn't, because we've all heard this crap before.
What really defies belief is how the Palestinian Arab contribution to
the Nazi cause is consistently ignored.
>His book is, for once, a
> genuine untold story of World War II. Rigg has opened brand new
territory
> for historians and students of the war, offering new insight into the
Nazi
> mentality on race. Hitler's Jewish Soldiers reveals the reactions and
> actions of Germans who suddenly found themselves cast in the role of
"race
> enemies" of their own country.
>
> Rigg traveled extensively to conduct interviews with hundreds of
Wehrmacht
> veterans, their families and survivors. In addition, he ****ed over
thousa=
nds
> of pages of official do***ents and personal papers (now housed in a
> permanent collection in Germany). The result of his exhaustive study is
a
> startling, tragic and morally perplexing story.
>
> Before Hitler's rise to power, Germans of full or partial Jewish descent
> were assimilated into German society. They considered themselves fully
> German in thought and action. Surprisingly, many of those German Jews
also
> shared their countrymen's racial prejudices. According to Rigg, many
Germ=
an
> Jews believed that the cartoonish stereotype of the eastern Jew
(Ostjuden)
> that the Nazis promoted was accurate. German Jews felt a duty to
distance
> themselves from that image by thorough assimilation into the mainstream.
> "Ostjuden simply represented all that many Jews had fought to distance
> themselves from," Rigg writes.
>
> However, it was blood, not attitude or assimilation, that mattered to
the
> F=FChrer. He regarded Jewish descent as a genetic disease that had to be
> eradicated from German life.
And blood descent, in Judaism, doesn't matter a damn. Ergo, there's no
such critter as a "racial" Jew, and Shtler's "Jewish" soldiers weren't
Jewish.
[remaining drek flushed]
Deborah
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