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Originally Posted by Horch
I was looking up the Jewish Brigade (interesting) and came across this from a University of Kansas site. I never heard of this. It could be of some interest. I guess. Does anyone know anything about them?
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There were more than several Jews who served in the German Army during the war. Most were already in the service before the racial laws were passed and were allowed to stay on appeal, some approved by Hitler himself. Most of them were
Mischlinge ("part-Jews") but many were full blooded Jews. One of the most notable was Field Marshall Erhard Milch whose father was Jewish and whose mother, while purportedly Christian, had a Jewish maiden name (Rosenau). Milch was tried and convicted of war crimes at Nuremberg and spent several years in Landsberg Prison.
According to Rigg's book, which is fairly well researched (I have it), there were perhaps 150,000 Jews and part-Jews in the German military during the war. There also were many in the armed forces of Hungary during that period. Andy Grove, one of the founders of Intel and himself a Holocaust survivor said in his book
Swimming Across that his father served in the Hungarian Army on the Eastern Front and was held as a POW by the Soviets for a period after the war. I don't know off hand about Germany's other allies.