Posted on 04/30/2002 5:31:11 PM PDT by swarthyguy
These two characters were the best of friends and used to enjoy shocking everyone with their war stories and jokes about lamp shades and other things that would now be branded offensive.
They were not enthusastic supporters of the third reich and committed acts of sabotage during their service to the fatherland. According to them this was common place among German soliders in the regular army. They stole supplies, threw hand grenades down the smoke stacks of tug boats, disabled vehicles, all in good fun and trying to get out of combat.
"Jewishness" is matrilinial -- ie you are Jewish if your mother is Jewish. Your mother is Jewish if HER mother was Jewish, and so on. So you can be Jewish under the Israeli "Law of Return", even if you and your parents have never been practicing Jews, as long as your lineage is correct
Any roadblocks and criticisms of this young man in his quest because of the Jewish subject are disgusting.
I found this article quite fascinating. I hope Mr. Riggs does well with his book and puts the denyers and naysayers to shame.
Leni
You can also take the definition of a Jew spelled out in Israel's right of return. Or whether these soldiers would have been eligible for reparations if they had gone to the camps instead of enlisting or being drafted in the Wehrmacht. In both cases the answer is yes, they are Jews. So if the state of Israel considers them Jews, who is to say they were not? Could be some of their kids even live in Israel after having been granted citizenship based on their heritage.
http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righitpix.html
According to this website there were a few Jews in the French Charlemagne SS division:
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/ss-33b.htm
"Charlemange consisted mainly of french volunteers (some of whom where transfered from the Horst Wessel division) but also of volunteers from Switzerland, the french colonies and a few from other counties such as Japan and Sweden. The French volunteers included a few from Indo-China (present day Vietnam), Laos and even a few Jews (!) who had served in the collaborationist forces in France. Apparently a black man from Martinique also volunteered but he was not accepted.
The division fought on the eastern front but most of it was destroyed during the soviet offensive though some parts fought in the battle of Berlin and some surrendered to the western allies."
This site gives a list of foreign volunteers in the SS:
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/military-foreign.htm
Indian volunteers in the SS and German Army:
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/ss-india.htm http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/heer-infanterie-reg-950.htm
Medal for the Indian volunteers:
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/awards-azadhind.htm
Hispanic volunteers for the SS:
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/heer-infanterie-div-250.htm http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/ss-span-101.htm http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/ss-span-102.htm
British volunteers in the SS in the Britisches Freikorps:
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/ss-uk.htm
American volunteers in the SS:
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/ss-usa.htm
Cossack volunteers in the German Army:
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/heer-kossaken-kavallerie-div.htm
Larry, judging by all of your cynical comments, you seem to have a lot of issues with jews.
Have you considered therapy?
Most of these were half-jews. If their mothers were Jews they would qualify as "Jews" according to Israel's law of return.
Jews also served in the Nazi police and security forces as ghetto police and concentration camp guards, which were known as Kapos.
Yes, that's what I said, but people with jewish mothers would be jewish to jews and raised as jews - therfore these Mischlinge people are paternally jewish, which means they could not, as Larry suggested make Aliyah. If their mothers or mothers' mothers were jewish, they would be jewish according to Halakha, and not Mischlinge.
If there were as many Jews as Rigg suggests then chances are at the very least several thousand were Jews on their mother's side. Chances are at least some were not raised as Jews and even if they were raised as Jews they could still have managed to get into Hitler's army.
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