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I never knew this or even heard about this.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)the author wrote the book and seems well researched.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)clue. The holocaust has interested me since middle school. Thank you again.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)On Amazon regarding the book...
"As Rigg fully documents for the first time, a great many of these men did not even consider themselves Jewish and had embraced the military as a way of life and as devoted patriots eager to serve a revived German nation. In turn, they had been embraced by the Wehrmacht, which prior to Hitler had given little thought to the "race" of these men but which was now forced to look deeply into the ancestry of its soldiers.
The process of investigation and removal, however, was marred by a highly inconsistent application of Nazi law. Numerous "exemptions" were made in order to allow a soldier to stay within the ranks or to spare a soldier's parent, spouse, or other relative from incarceration or far worse. (Hitler's own signature can be found on many of these "exemption" orders.) But as the war dragged on, Nazi politics came to trump military logic, even in the face of the Wehrmacht's growing manpower needs, closing legal loopholes and making it virtually impossible for these soldiers to escape the fate of millions of other victims of the Third Reich."
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)My father fought in WWI -- for the Germans. He despised the French, respected the English and Americans. He took us out before the war (and the Nuremberg laws) got started, and had some considerable sympathy towards the populism and nationalism of the day.
On this topic, there was a pretty thorough analysis of "how would the war have ended, if the Nazis were not anti-Semitic".
It concluded, from manpower lost, to heads of industry lost (lots of upper/middle management was Jewish), to the key scientists of the Manhattan Project, the Germans would have ended up ruling the world.
Kind of bizarre to think about.