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Lives of Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich

For at least one Jew in Nazi Germany, the way to avoid persecution was to join the army under an assumed Aryan identity.

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Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich | Jewish Book Council Skip to main content Close Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, found­ed in 1943, is the longest-run­n­ing orga­ni­za­tion devot­ed exclu­sive­ly to the sup­port and cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox. Invalid email address Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich | Jewish Book Council Main navigation Books Find the lat­est book reviews, read­ing lists, and edi­tors’ books, and search JBC’s data­base of over 8,000 titles.  Book Search Reading Lists Israel Bookshelf Global Jewish Literary Alliance Review for Us Submit a Book for Review Editors' Picks Flower of Vlo­ra: Grow­ing up Jew­ish in Com­mu­nist Albania The 12th Commandment Book Clubs Find the lat­est month­ly picks, dis­cus­sion ques­tions and resource guides, and the lat­est books in paperback. 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Oth­ers in the army who con­sid­ered them­selves Chris­t­ian had their mil­i­tary careers ruined or com­pro­mised by the dis­as­trous rev­e­la­tion of their part-Jew­ish descent. In this intrigu­ing work, the author, a mil­i­tary his­to­ri­an and for­mer Marine offi­cer, has col­lect­ed the oral his­to­ries of Jews and part- Jews who served in the Ger­man armed forces dur­ing World War II. He presents his ​“heroes” in a can­did and unbi­ased fash­ion. Did they have any qualms about fight­ing in sup­port of Hitler while their rel­a­tives were in con­cen­tra­tion camps or were oth­er­wise threat­ened? No, they rea­soned, how else could they have saved them­selves? Sev­er­al did, in fact, use their priv­i­leged posi­tion to help Jews in trouble.Skill­ful­ly writ­ten and care­ful­ly researched, the book is absorb­ing read­ing. Its con­tro­ver­sial qual­i­ty sug­gests using it as a basis for dis­cus­sion groups inter­est­ed in moral prob­lems. Bib­li­og­ra­phy, list of abbre­vi­a­tions, list of SS and Wehrma­cht ranks, notes, pro­logue, six­ty­four photographs. Jane Waller­stein worked in pub­lic rela­tions for many years. She is the author of Voic­es from the Pater­son Silk Mills and co-author of a nation­al crim­i­nal jus­tice study of parole for Rut­gers University. More from Jane Waller­stein mil­i­tary Discussion Questions Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture inspires, enrich­es, and edu­cates the community. Help sup­port the Jew­ish Book Council. 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