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Originally Posted by senojekips That's not unusual although it is despicable, there are turncoats and traitors in every society. People who will gladly sacrifice their morals for the promise of favourable treatment. |
Wel tell that to the Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd Regiment Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion and veterans of the Military Intelligence Service who fought in WWII and were among the most decorated soldiers of the US army.
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It is known that there were an estimated 150,0000 "half Jews" in Hitlers army too, and an undisclosed number of full Jews, who kept a very low profile, for obvious reasons.
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That figure comes from Bryan Mark Rigg and is misleading because allmost all cases are about "mixed Jews" as defined by the Nazi ideology, but not according to the Jewish view. Mixed jews were non-jewish people who had two Jewish grandparents (Mischling of the first degree) or one Jewish grandparent (Mischling of the second degree). Most of them maybe didn't even knew they had jewish blood in them. A Jew was someone who had at least three Jewish grandparents, and who had been enrolled with a Jewish congregation.
According to the 1939 Reich census, there were about 72,000 Mischlinge of the first degree, some 39,000 of the second degree, and probably tens of thousands more of higher degrees, which, however, were not recorded. (D. Bankier, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 3, Number 1 (1988), pp. 1-20.)
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The Cover shot on the booklet "The Ideal German Soldier" featured half Jew Werner Goldberg.
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Werner Goldberg's photograph appeared in the Sunday edition of the Berliner Tageblatt newspaper in 1939 with the caption "The Ideal German Soldier". The photograph had been sold to the newspaper by the official army photographer. It was later used on recruitment posters. Werner was a Mischling.
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Among others were people like Field Marshal Erhard Milch.
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He was one of the few high ranking Jews in the Wehrmacht and enlisted in 1910 and served also as a founding Director of Deutsche Luft Hansa. He too was a Mischling. In 1947, Milch was tried as a war criminal by a United States Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and sentenced to life imprisonment at Landsberg prison.
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There is also the story and film (Europa, Europa) about Shlomo Perel who falsified his papers and served in Hitler's Army.
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Perel was constantly in danger of being discovered by his German unit, and attempted on several occasions to flee back to the Soviets, each time without success. His father died of starvation in the Łódź ghetto, his mother was killed in a gassing truck and his sister was shot while on a death march but he found his brother Isaak alive. In 1948 Perel resettled in the newly independent Israel where he joined the army to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.