Some 25% of the membership of the International Battalions that fought in the Spanish Civil War were Jewish; most all were either diehard Communists or Socialists.
Comment: Once we started supplying the Brits, our fate was sealed - we were in the war, like it or not. FReepers with limited knowledge of those times would do well to spend time on YouTube both with Victor Davis Hanson, and reviewing the excellent Spanish Civil War documentaries.
I’ve been rethinking WWII in Europe. I recently read Shirer’s “Berlin Diary” and he describes his astonishment at the complete lack of response from the French army to the German invasion. That makes me question the wisdom of sacrificing American lives to liberate people who wouldn’t fight for themselves. Then, since the invasion of Poland seems to have launched the whole mess, what good did it do to fight the Germans to rescue Poland and Eastern Europe from the totalitarian Nazis only to hand it all over to the totalitarin Communists at the end of the war?