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LIVES OF HITLER'S JEWISH SOLDIERS UNTOLD TALES OF MEN OF JEWISH DESCENT WHO FOUGHT FOR THE THIRD REICH
Book Type: C By Bryan Rigg. They were foot soldiers and officers. They served in the regular army and the Waffen-SS. And, remarkably, they were also Jewish, at least as defined by Hitlerâs infamous race laws. Pursuing the thread he first unraveled in Hitlerâs Jewish Soldiers, Bryan Rigg takes a closer look at the experiences of Wehrmacht soldiers who were classified as Jewish. In this long-awaited companion volume, he presents interviews with twenty-one of these men, whose stories are both fascinating and disturbing. Rigg relates each individualâs experiences following the establishment of Hitlerâs race laws, shifting between vivid scenes of combat and the increasingly threatening situation on the home front for these men and their family members. Their stories reveal the constant tension in their lives: how some tried to hide their identities, and how a few were even âAryanizedâ as part of Hitlerâs effort to retain reliable soldiersâincluding Field Marshal Erhard Milch, three-star general Helmut Wilberg, and naval commander Bernhard Rogge. Chilling, compelling, almost beyond belief, these stories depict crises of conscience under the most stressful circumstances. Lives of Hitlerâs Jewish Soldiers deepens our understanding of the complex intersection of Nazi race laws and German military service both before and during World War II. 64 photographs 320 pp. 
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