Persecution of Jews

Point four of the Nazis’ program made it clear: “Only those who are fellow Germans can be citizens. Only those who are of German blood can be fellow Germans, irrespective of their religion. Hence no Jew can be a fellow German.” When the anti-Judaist Hitler came to power, international Jewish organizations reacted swiftly with calls for the boycotting of Germany and by spreading false rumors about persecutorial acts in Germany. The Third Reich retaliated with a call to boycott Jewish retailers in Germany. What ensued in subsequent years was an ever increasing escalation of mutual threats of persecution and annihilation. Yet, since only the Nazis, in contrast to the Jewish organizations, had real power, they implemented their plans step by step…

Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers and the Grey Zones of the Holocaust

Bryan Mark Rigg joins Steven Karras’s “Schmooze Button” podcast in a lively discussion about his career as a historian and how he unearthed evidence of a large number of “Mischlinge” (part-Jews) in the Nazi Party and German Armed Forces during World War II. His book Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers earned him the Colby Award in 2003…

Zionism and Anti-Semitism: A Strange Alliance Through History

Allan C. Brownfeld is a syndicated columnist and associate editor of the Lincoln Review, a journal published by the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, and editor of Issues, the quarterly journal of the American Council for Judaism. This article is reprinted from the July-August 1998 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs…

Hate Crimes, Zionist Terrorism, and Jews in Hitler’s Army

Doug Collins, an award-winning journalist, has worked for several Canadian daily newspapers, and is the author of several books. He served with the British army during the Second World War, and then with the British control commission in postwar occupied Germany. For more about Collins, see the Nov.-Dec. 1994 Journal, pp. 43-46, and, “Canadian Jewish…

My Patient, Hitler

“My Patient, Hitler,” by Dr. Eduard Bloch “as told to J. D. Ratcliff,” originally appeared in two parts in the March 15 and March 22, 1941, issues of Collier's magazine. In those pre-television days, Collier's was one of the most influential and widely-read periodicals in the United States. Regarded by serious historians as an important…

Zionism and the Third Reich

Early in 1935, a passenger ship bound for Haifa in Palestine left the German port of Bremerhaven. Its stern bore the Hebrew letters for its name, “Tel Aviv,” while a swastika banner fluttered from the mast. And although the ship was Zionist-owned, its captain was a National Socialist Party member. Many years later a traveler…

Special Treatment: The Untold Story of Hitler’s Third Race

Special Treatment: The Untold Story of Hitler's Third Race by Alan Abrams. Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1985, 261pp, ISBN 0-8184-0364-0. This book may have the most ironic title of any work dealing with the Jews of Europe in the 1930's and 40's. Its author, Alan Abrams, is a convinced Exterminationist, but the “special treatment” he…

Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers

Bryan Mark Rigg, Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military, University Press of Kansas, ISBN: 0700611789, 528 pp., $29.95 On December 2, 1996, The Daily Telegraph reported briefly about a research work by the American Bryan M. Rigg about “Jews in Wehrmacht Uniform”…

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