The Holocaust Reviewed: Part Seven

Germans of Jewish Descent Who Served Hitler

Possibly one of the most damning indictments of the allegations surrounding the Holocaust and Nazi racial policy, come in an analysis of Germans of part Jewish descent who were not only ardent Nazis but who faithfully served the Nazi state at all levels in its military structure. For if the Nazi state had, as is so often claimed, been hell bent on killing all traces of Jews, it would never have allowed these individuals into positions which they did hold - including army and air force generals.

As discussed earlier, the Nazi racial laws made specific allowances for such exceptions, and in fact actively sought to assimilate partial Jews into German society, rather than have them re-congregate and form pure Jewish gene pools once again. From the Nazi side, there was therefore no contradiction between the assimilation of part Jews into German society, although this policy is subject to considerable misunderstanding from outside observers.

As discussed in the book by American Military University professor Bryan Mark Rigg in his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers, The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military" (University Press of Kansas, Modern War Studies, May 2002) as many as 150,000 men of part Jewish descent, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals, fought for Nazi Germany right to the bitter end.

Almost all of these 150,000 men received special exemptions and declarations of being "true Germans", many of these orders being signed by Adolf Hitler himself, in a legal provision known as the Deutschblütigkeitserklärung (or literally, the Declaration of German Blood).

Above: photographs of Wehrmacht soldier and half-Jew Anton Mayer, typical of those which accompanied an application for exemption under the Nazis' racial laws.

Above left: Quarter-Jew Admiral Bernhard Rogge wearing his Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz) with oak leaves. Above right: Adolf Hitler personally declared Luftwaffe Field Marshall Erhard Milch (standing left) as  an Aryan, even though Milch was half-Jewish. To Milch's right, General Wolfram von Richthofen.

Above right: Half-Jew Luftwaffe General Helmut Wilberg; above right: The military service book of half-Jew Hermann Aub.

Above left: World War One veteran and half-Jew, General Johannes Zukertort; and above right: Half-Jew Commander Paul Ascher, Admiral Lütjens's first staff officer on the battleship Bismarck.

Above left: Half-Jew Colonel Walter H. Hollaender, decorated with the Knight's Cross (Ritterkreuz) and German-Cross in Gold; and above right: Half-Jew Wehrmacht soldier Werner Goldberg.

"KNOWING THE NAZI STATE FOR WHAT IT WAS"

The significance of these Germans of Jewish descent serving the Third Reich has not been lost on the academic world: for example, the following quote from historian John Keegan in his review of Bryan Mark Rigg's book:

"The revelation that Germans of Jewish blood, knowing the Nazi regime for what it was, served Hitler as uniformed members of his armed forces must come as a profound shock. It will surprise even professional historians of the Nazi years."  - John Keegan, author of The Face of Battle and The Second World War,  (http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righit.html)

Keegan is of course, mistaken in the one sense, in that even a cursory study of Nazi racial laws will have revealed that the Blood Protection Law of 1935 make specific allowances for such cases, and only the general hysteria and ignorance of what the Nazis actually said and did has allowed people to be "shocked" by the large number of part Jews serving the Reich.

The phrase "knowing the Nazi regime for what it was" above by Keegan, is however the real significant part: for indeed, if the Nazis had been mass murdering, gassing and burning millions of Jews, it is extremely unlikely that these 150,000 prominent Germans of part Jewish descent, would have served the Reich at all, never mind having made specific application to be granted full Aryan status - especially given that there were only approximately 600,000 full blooded Jews in Nazi Germany.

Part Eight: The Holocaust as Viewed by a Jewish Scholar

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Part One: How Many Jews were killed?

Part Two: The Wanssee Conference Reviewed

Part Three: Auschwitz: Extermination or Labor Camp?

Part Four: Treblinka: A Forensic Examination

Part Five: Faked Holocaust Memoirs - Simon Wiesenthal

Part Six: The Theater of Lies - the John Demjanjuk Case