Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent
in the German Military
Bryan Mark Rigg
May 2002
528 pages, 95 photographs, 6 x 9
Modern War Studies
Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1178-2, $29.95
Military service book of "half-Jew" Hermann Aub
Soldiers taking the oath of allegiance to Hitler
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"Half-Jew" Horst Geitner was awarded both the Iron
Cross Second Class and the Silver Wound Badge.
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This photo of "half-Jew" Werner Goldberg, who was
blond and blue-eyed, was used by a Nazi propaganda newspaper
for its title page. Its caption: "The Ideal German Soldier."
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"Half-Jew" Commander Paul Ascher, Admiral Lütjens's
first staff officer on the battleship Bismarck; Ascher
received Hitler's Deutschblütigkeitserklärung. (Military
awards: EKI, EKII, and War Service Cross Second Class.)
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"Quarter-Jew" Admiral Bernhard Rogge wearing the
Ritterkreuz; he received Hitler's Deutschblütigkeitserklärung.
(Military awards: oak leaves to Ritterkreuz, Ritterkreuz,
samurai sword from the emperor of Japan, EKI, and EKII.)
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"Half-Jew" Johannes Zukertort (last rank general)
received Hitler's Deutschblütigkeitserklärung.
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"Half-Jew" Colonel Walter H. Hollaender, decorated
with the Ritterkreuz and German-Cross in Gold; he received Hitler's
Deutschblütigkeitserklärung. (Military
awards: Ritterkreuz, German-Cross in Gold, EKI, EKII, and Close
Combat Badge.)
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"Half-Jew" and later Luftwaffe General Helmut
Wilberg; Hitler declared him Aryan in 1935. (Military awards:
Hohenzollern's Knight's Cross with Swords, EKI, EKII.)
"Half-Jew" and field-marshal Erhard Milch
(left) with General Wolfram von Richthofen. Hitler declared Milch
Aryan. He was awarded the Ritterkreuz for his performance during
the campaign in Norway in 1940.
General Gotthard Heinrici, who was married to a "half-Jew,"
meeting Hitler in 1937.
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