Jewish-American soldiers didn’t just fight Nazis in WWII — they endured anti-Semitism

Jewish Telegraphic Agency ^ | April 5, 2018 11:56am | Curt Schleier

[PA Engineer]

GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II” begins as many Holocaust documentaries do, with a history of the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany mixed with what is now standard archival footage of Brownshirts and Kristallnacht. Throw in interviews with some Jewish celebrities — in this case, Carl Reiner and his friend Mel Brooks wearing his old Army jacket — and it has all the workings of a typical PBS documentary.

But the film, which premieres April 11, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, quickly takes an unexpected turn. Jewish-American soldiers, the viewer learns, weren’t only fighting Nazis during the war — they had to battle the anti-Semitic prejudice of many of their fellow soldiers.

All told, some 550,000 Jews served in World War II. A few had experienced anti-Semitism at home already in the form of “Gentiles Only” signs, for example, which were found at some public facilities across the country.

[Cronos]

I don't get your remark -- the article linked says nothing about Jews post WWII. So nothing about "Jews being victims in modern America"

Am I missing something?

[wardaddy]

To be accurate Jews in WWII fought at one percent higher than their population rate

And i know it sounds stereotypical but many were doctors

I think a majority of Jewish doctors under 45 joined the service in WWII

But Lordy I’m sure that private Hillbilly the anti Semite from Alabama probably with his leg blowed off when he reached the hospital tent asked that doctor about to save his life

“No offense doc but you sure you ain’t Jewish doc I’m an anti Semite you know “

[wardaddy]

Did I link it wrong try this

http://www.jwmww2.org/VF/ib_items/1073/American%20Jews%20Serve%20in%20World%20War%20II.pdf

22 pages of reality about Jews in us military in wwii

Not this crybaby victimhood crap

[Cronos]

Wardaddy - you probably missed the sarcastic tone of m's postWay back in the Old South there was so much prejudice against Jews that the Confederate Secretary of State was Jewish

The "old south" was "so prejudiced against Jews" that they elected a Jew to be Secretary of State :)

[wmileo]

Jonah Goldberg is not Jewish.

My comments were not meant to slur the Southern Culture. It was just to point out that some antisemitic miscreants like to ones I mentioned would use Jews in the antebellum South as evidence that the Jews profited from slavery more so than others and therefore deserve to be vilified accordingly.

[wardaddy]

I have apologized and been corrected

I am now beside my bed doing push-ups in contrition before donning my cpap to try to go back to sleep

Now I’m gonna need a nitro...lol

/s

Judah Benjamin is a favorite figure of mine...a survivor and unrepentant like capt William Lankins Bradford who was Semmes adjutant and who escaped after Mobile Bay and made his way to Barranquilla where he became prosperous in shipping on the Magdalena

Two of his descendants have posted here over the past 18 years

Irony of ironies....some of his huge Bradford clan in Colombia are now of all things...Jewish....and several are doctors

You can’t make this stuff up

[wmileo]

Remarks by Monterrosa-24 which triggered your response only show what asses he and PA Engineer are. This Post by the Later is BS and only brings out the worst in all of us.

If you separate the sinners from the saints in all of recorded history you will end up with Noah, Abraham, Jesus and possibly Lou Gehrig.

[wardaddy]

I confess I missed that point at first...

I realize Goldberg is only half Jewish via daddy which per the hardcore denies membership

Lowery isn’t Jewish I don’t think

My point was we have a cabal of south bashers some Jewish some not here rooted in GOPe groups who’ve been exposed from time to time and were mostly anti Trumpers too

And some are in my opinion NRO folk especially since Goldberg says the same things and used to openly post here as did Lowery i believe

I suspect they are part of this group

I’ve witnessed the OP south bash and be PC on race....I got it now

[wmileo]

That is why the state of Israel schooled all of the original citizens from the post WWII Exodus to learn Hebrew.

[wardaddy]

Monterossa forgot his sarcasm tag

And took a bullet for it from my metaphorical gun

I apologized

[Cronos]

Quite frankly I read the article as showign positives about America -- let's be blunt there was anti-semitism in the USA before WWII - but it was eliminated after the 1940s - by the people of the USA themselves. The MeinKampf is freely available yet people also know that anti-semitism leads to a descent to evil

The USA has nothing to be ashamed of for its past where people may have verbally dscriminated againstJews or blacks or whatever, what matters is how people learnt -- the greatest generation may have grown up with some prejudice to hispanics, Italians, Jews, blacks etc. but they overcame it - that's another aspect that made them great, growing beyond the circumstances you were raised in

[Cronos]

Actually it started earlier - read abou tthe efforts during Aliyah in the late 1800s

I was reading a gigantic tome on Lawrence of Arabia (a snoozer with the gigantic number of details, but definitely worth slogging through) -- "Lawrence in Arabia" by Scott Anderson

Anyway, there are eye-openers. The book doesn't deal only with Jews, but they are one of the many threas

Aaron Aaronsohn is one of the unsung heroes of the Israeli state -- anyway, so they started with the useage of Hebrew under this noted agronomist

[wmileo]

I never bashed the South. I also believe that all of the statues and memorials of the Confederacy should stand.

The following partial list of folks who are revered by the PC police either owned slaves or were antisemitic.

Mohammad the profit ( owned slaves and raped them as well)

Gandhi (antisemitic comments about the Jews during WWII as well as comments about Blacks in South Africa when he was there.

Maya Angelou who did not have kind thing to say about Jews, America and also wrote Crap passing as Poetry.

Jesse Jackson ( talked trash about Jews calling them Hymie's)

Al Sharpton calling the Jews interlopers.

Jimmy Carter comparing Israel to South Africa during Apartheid

[SunkenCiv]

No one comes right out and says, see, same thing was going on here -- but that is precisely the message that is being delivered, and it is being soaked up by what passes for the brains of the PBS audience.

[SJackson]

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There was antisemitism in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s. I never knew. You could find other groups as well. Ethnic and racial bias was far more acceptable than it is today.

And no, I don't mean to suggest that there's less racism today than 50-60 years ago in the US. There is, but I'd be a racist to suggest a fack.

[miss marmelstein]

It was a different country back then. Jews were in cities and many of our fighting boys came from very rural backgrounds with a very limited idea of Jews. Don’t laugh but Neil Simon’s play/movie Biloxi Blues explores this. My dad was with the Dixie Division and he was made fun of for being a Brooklyn boy. But when they were all in the jungle together, those boys saved his life because of their skills. I doubt my father could read a compass!

[miss marmelstein]

No one here has suggested “erasing history” as you keep referring to it. They, as Americans, are simply sick of having to hear every single damn day that either they or their ancestors are racists, bigots and homophobes. The fact is, thanks to America, that horrible war was won and the Holocaust brought to an end.

That very young, individual men sometimes acted foolishly or stupidly doesn’t make them Nazis, ok?

[yarddog]

My Father’s dog tags had a “B” for Baptist.

Yes that it correct.

[wmileo]

"My Father’s dog tags had a “B” for Baptist."

I presume that was after 1952.

[wmileo]

"No one here has suggested “erasing history” as you keep referring to it."

Great response to the individual who misused this website by posting this Crap.