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RTE2 - Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, Tuesday 8.0

  • 24-08-2010 6:20pm
    #1
    PatsytheNazi
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    Hitler's Jewish Soldiers

    Documentary following the lives of four Jewish Germans who were drafted into the Nazi Army. By Nazi law, anyone who was 25 per cent Jewish was a Jew, yet many were proud Germans.

    http://www.rte.ie/tv/listings_rtetwo.html

    I know it sounds the strangest thing you've ever heard but I've actually read some stuff where some of those who went on to found the state of Israel are on record of admiring Nazism in the early 1930's. They even welcomed the pogroms as they seen it as a way of getting more Jews to the middle east. Fact. I'll see what I can dig up, it may be under a pile of dusty books in the attic :)


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  • #2
    deise go deo
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    Were these soldiers only part Jew or full Jews? I know there was some idelogical grey area as to what should be done with part Jews, meishlings I think they were called. If they were less than 25% then I suppose it dose make sence, especially later in the war when manpower was in short supply.

    If they were full Jews then it seems very odd, although they did use Russians in their forreign legions and slavic people were low in standing too.


  • #3
    PatsytheNazi
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    deise go deo wrote: »
    Were these soldiers only part Jew or full Jews? I know there was some idelogical grey area as to what should be done with part Jews, meishlings I think they were called. If they were less than 25% then I suppose it dose make sence, especially later in the war when manpower was in short supply.

    If they were full Jews then it seems very odd, although they did use Russians in their forreign legions and slavic people were low in standing too.
    They were part Jews, their surname's gave them away to the Nazi's. One full Hungarian Jew joined he said to survive as he was starving etc. I only watched about 25 minutes of it and turned over, thought it was rubbish. Sensationalist title but little substance in it.


  • #4
    Morlar
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    PatsytheNazi wrote: »
    I only watched about 25 minutes of it and turned over, thought it was rubbish. Sensationalist title but little substance in it.

    I didn't see it but going from past experience with WW2 documentaries on Irish TV that sounds about right to me. Maybe it's just me but I really don't see any great level of historical value in an anomaly like that story anyway.


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