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10/21/2007: "150,000 Jews served under Hitler"

Cambridge University researcher Bryan Rigg has traced the Jewish ancestry of more than 1,200 of Hitler's soldiers, including two field marshals and fifteen generals (two full generals, eight lieutenant generals, five major generals), "men commanding up to 100,000 troops."

Jews also served in the Nazi police and security forces as ghetto police (Ordnungdienst) and concentration camp guards (kapos).

Rigg demonstrates that the actual number was much higher than previously thought--perhaps as many as 150,000 men, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals.

Numerous "exemptions" were made in order to allow a soldier to stay within the ranks or to spare a soldier's parent, spouse, or other relative from incarceration or far worse. (Hitler's own signature can be found on many of these "exemption" orders.)

[ Hitler wasn't a kneejerk moron. He knew that many people who were Jewish were fine people, and would support his Germany, so he welcomed them into the effort. His goal was a healthy Germany.

Many Jews also supported him because they supported German values. They wanted to keep being Jews, but they saw in the Jewish establishment something that had gone off-track from what it was to be Jewish, or German. They loved their adopted land and wanted to fight for it -- and they did fight and die for it.

The removal of Jews was mostly a removal of criminals who were also Jewish. They, by the values they had demonstrated, were corrupt and sick and needed to be banished. It wasn't a witch-hunt per se. ]

http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righit.html