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The story of X Troop, a unit of WWII German-speaking refugee volunteer commandos
THE TIMES OF ISRAEL ^ | 6-17-2021 | Renee Ghert-Zand

Posted on 06/16/2021 10:02:30 PM PDT by Texan4Life

87 members were mainly Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria.

Secret WWII Jewish British military commandos finally come out of the shadows

Declassifying records, author Leah Garrett uncovers amazing story of X Troop, a unit of German-speaking refugee volunteers determined to outwit and outfight the Nazis at all costs.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Religion
KEYWORDS: commando; jewish; troop; x
I had always wondered if refugees of Jewish heritage fought the Nazi's in combat. And now the answer!!
1 posted on 06/16/2021 10:02:30 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life
I had always wondered if refugees of Jewish heritage fought the Nazi's in combat. And now the answer!!

This has always been common knowledge. Just one example:

Henry Kissinger.

In 1938, when Kissinger was 15 years old, he and his family fled Germany as a result of Nazi persecution. [...] Kissinger saw combat with the division, and volunteered for hazardous intelligence duties during the Battle of the Bulge.

-Wikipedia

Regards,

2 posted on 06/16/2021 10:21:55 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Texan4Life

They were the original X-Men.


3 posted on 06/16/2021 10:28:34 PM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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#TheBearJew

4 posted on 06/16/2021 10:52:54 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Texan4Life

I met Jack Masters well over 20 years ago at a talk at the National Holocaust Museum in DC. It is what he said after the official talk that made me prouder of him and his men.
They became Nazi war criminal hunters at the end of the war and didn’t take many, if any, prisoners.

No legal bullshit, no excuses for genocide, nothing. They killed genocidal murderers, giving their victims a “just” treatment for what they did to millions of Jews and millions of others, including American, British and French POWs.

My other favorite Nazi-fighters/hunters included Peter Malkin who physically seized Adolf Eichmann in Argentina (I shook his hand, a great honor), and Nazi-Hunter concentration camp survivor Simon Weisenthal (who provided me with Nazi-hunting materials which I published in the US).

Some Jews fought back with all they had against Nazi Germany and their allies. They are the modern “Maccabees”. What they did should never be forgotten!!

NB: My grandmother’s family in Lemberg was massacred in the sandpit killings that left 2,500 Jews and possibly others dead in a day or two. Any who survived were sent to Belzec Concentration Camp and/or Auschwitz extermination camp (according to a German soldier who saw them on the death trains).

The best Nazi is a dead Nazi. No excuses. The best Communist is a dead Communist. No excuses. They are the greatest genocidal killers in history and when they attack, must be killed. Screw taking prisoners except for questioning (I learned a lot from VC and NVA soldiers/defectors in both So. Vietnam and Cambodia, some of it of strategic intelligence value which I passed on to “friends” in Saigon).

Otherwise, “dead reds” sounded great to me, especially the “crispy critter” kind.


5 posted on 06/16/2021 11:24:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: alexander_busek; Texan4Life

ummm, Soros, not so much.


6 posted on 06/16/2021 11:37:02 PM PDT by A strike (Barr to Gitmo,Roberts to Florence supermax, HerrDoktor FauxiGates to TerreHaute)
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To: Texan4Life

I met a Jewish man in Charlotte, NC (recently deceased) who was sent to a Nazi death camp with his family. Because he was too young to do any real work, the guards expelled him. Alone, he somehow made it out of German territory and eventually to The States.

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor he lied about his age and enlisted in the army. He was among the first troops to hit the beach in Normandy on D-Day and was involved in liberating one of the Concentration Camps.

No other family members survived.


7 posted on 06/16/2021 11:59:56 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Texan4Life

Given the propensity to rewrite history we will soon be told that it was the Amazing 87 who actually won WW2 and that the millions of Americans, Brits, Russians, etc., were just their helpers.


8 posted on 06/17/2021 6:00:54 AM PDT by euram
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To: euram
X-Troop
ping
9 posted on 06/17/2021 2:06:31 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Texan4Life

10 posted on 06/17/2021 2:07:55 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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