Topic: Jewish GI at Nuremburg

SoldieringforFreedom · June 7th, 2005

Soldiering for Freedom is a fantastic new book, a compilation of letters by Herman J. Obermayer, a staff sergeant during WWII who, through well placed connections and luck, had a front-row seat at the Nuremburg trials. He talks about his life in the military as "the only Jew many guys had ever seen" and his very liberal (in the classic sense) views on race relations and Zionism. He was educated at Dartmouth before joining the Army and wrote hundreds of letters home talking about the military schools he attended and his experiences in Europe before and after V-E Day.

Excellent read, excellent Fathers' Day gift.

See excerpts and more here

Missileer · June 7th, 2005

Interesting. Wasn't Henry Kissinger a lawyer for the prosecution or some such job at Nuremburg?

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SoldieringforFreedom Tirones	Post; Jewish GI at Nuremburg Soldiering for Freedom is a fantastic new book, a compilation of letters by Herman J. Obermayer, a staff sergeant during WWII who, through well placed connections and luck, had a front-row seat at the Nuremburg trials. He talks about his life in the military as "the only Jew many guys had ever seen" and his very liberal (in the classic sense) views on race relations and Zionism. He was educated at Dartmouth before joining the Army and wrote hundreds of letters home talking about the military schools he attended and his experiences in Europe before and after V-E Day. Excellent read, excellent Fathers' Day gift. See excerpts and more here

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Missileer Nuclear Duck Hunter Gear	Interesting. Wasn't Henry Kissinger a lawyer for the prosecution or some such job at Nuremburg? __________________ “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill

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