[swarthyguy]

That post is for you:

Also I think that most Jews up until Nazism really took over, tended to think of themselves as German first. How German Jewish WWI veterans could not believe that they would be treated the way they eventually were.

[lavrenti]

World War I was the first major war where Jews were allowed to serve in the German officer corps. A lot of Jewish line officers and NCOs died in the trenches in France fighting to the last breath for a country, who by the end of the Nazi regime had reduced their number, by exile or murder, from several million to a mere 17,000.

A terrible thought: how many Jews in the Kaiser's army took a bullet for Cpl. Hitler when the latter was a message runner?