
Автор: Bryan Mark Rigg
Издательство: University Press of Kansas
Серия: Modern War Studies
ISBN: 070062340X
Год: 2016
Страниц: 328
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.52 MB
They were foot soldiers and officers. They served in the regular army and the Waffen-SS. And, remarkably, they were also Jewish, at least as defined by Hitler's infamous race laws. Pursuing the thread he first unraveled in Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, Bryan Rigg takes a closer look at the experiences of Wehrmacht soldiers who were classified as Jewish. In this long-awaited companion volume, he presents interviews with twenty-one of these men, whose stories are both fascinating and disturbing. As many as 150,000 Jews and partial-Jews (or Mischlinge) served, often with distinction, in the German military during World War II. The men interviewed for this volume portray a wide range of experiences-some came from military families, some had been raised Christian-revealing in vivid detail how they fought for a government that robbed them of their rights and sent their relatives to extermination camps.