[sheik yerbouty]

This crap is just a variation of the jihadist/nazi line "The Jews did it to themselved." Yasser's uncle Haj Amin Al Husseini organized Bosnian Muslim SS divisios for Hitler. The Book is Called "Asphalt Soldiers."

[onedoug]

"...men of partial Jewish origin...."

Like Herr Schicklegruber.

[Cicero]

Very interesting. And interesting how desperate the standard academic historians are to deprecate and diminish his accomplishment. What a bunch of insecure dweebs they are.

[SauronOfMordor]

A lot of it revolves around the question: is "Jewishness" a religion or an ethnicity?

It seems like most of these "Jewish Nazis" were Germans who had some Jewish ancestors, but who did not consider themselves Jewish. Is a baptised Jew still a Jew, or is he now a Christian?

[Senator Pardek]

Good post. For those of you who think the man's research is a crock, I offer three words: John Walker Lindh.

[RJCogburn]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.

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[MinuteGal]

History of events and civilizations is composed of bits and pieces of oral and written words. It's not just the chronicles of great battles and the like, but the sum of remembrances of men and women concerning their individual lives that give a face to history.

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

[Edmund Burke]

Sure there were plenty of Jews who joined up, but at the time they only saw it as a way to make a buck.

[Marduk]

Interesting site with pictures:

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."

[jonatron]

This article seems a little disingenuous, as if it's little more than a publicity promo - kinda like an infomercial.

[Aliska]

I didn't take the time to read the entire article, but I saw a foreign film about this very thing. A young Jew hid in the German Army, having a couple close calls because of his circumcision. Sure wish I could remember the name of it. If I find out the title, I'll try to post back to this thread.

[aristeides]

SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich was a doubtful Halbjude, but there is no doubt that Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch, the operational head of the Luftwaffe, really was a half-Jew (in fact, in Jewish terms, simply a Jew, as his mother was Jewish.) Speaking of field marshalls, Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein was born von Lewinski, and he seems to have descended from a grand rabbi of Warsaw.

[cynicom]

General Milch was a jew, everyone knew it then and now. He served Hitler well. None of this is new ground.

[g'nad]

bookmarked...

[Petronski]

His Jewish ancestry was not the only discovery Mr. Rigg made in Germany that summer. One evening, he went to see the movie Europa, Europa, the harrowing story of Shlomo Perel, a German Jew who escaped his homeland after the Nazis seized power, made his way east to the Soviet Union, was captured by the German army, and then, to save his life, assumed the identity of a non-Jewish German soldier.

Breathtaking and heartbreaking, this film Europa, Europa is well worth the cost of purchase, let alone rental. Even those who hate subtitles will still gain a great deal from this film; one can never forget him trying desperately to conceal his circumcision.

[metesky]

Why does nobody pay attention to the fact that Hitler also employed Blacks from South West Africa, the feared Schwartzkomando?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"What's more", [Professor David Cesarani] contends, "it's unoriginal."

Rigg should adopt the research methods of Bellesiles who is so highly original that he doesn’t even sources!

[SunkenCiv]

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Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military by Bryan Mark Rigg

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[Ciexyz]

Sounds like a most fascinating book, I'd like to read it.