Reddit reviews Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military

Indeed there were! The books Hitler's Jewish Soldiers and it's "Sequel" The Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers are great places to start looking if you interested.

A lot of Jewish soldiers in the Wehrmacht joined because they wanted to show the Nazi's that a Jew could do anything a German could do (since at the time the party was playing up that they were inferior). Others joined simply because they believed being a Jew on the front was safer than being a Jew back home. The Nazi's eventually closed the loophole that allowed Jews to join though but I think estimates say there were 50,000 Jewish soldiers in the army?

One of the highest decorated Wehrmacht soldiers was actually Jewish, he was given his medal by Hitler himself who from what I read resented it at first but in the end caved. There was a book written on Jewish soldiers in the Wehrmacht (and even a documentary that complemented it) which featured his story but the name escapes me at the moment.

Edit: Spelling.

Edit 2: I believe this is the book,

http://www.amazon.ca/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700611789

The estimate given is infact 150,000 soldiers of Jewish decent, not the 50,000 I stated above.

Your argument is irrelevant. There were Jews in Nazi army.
http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700611789

Already posted my source.

Also there are countless other exceptions of the rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Bloch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Maurice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Milch

Erhard Milch is a great example of a WWI veteran getting the status of a honorary Aryan.

There are also some books on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700611789

Julius Streicher (that we hung at Nuremberg for his faith-hatred) seems to have been less guilty than many Zionists.

And, while he was certainly a disgusting racist, his defence is pretty strong:

>In 1935, at the Nuremberg Party Congress, the "racial laws" were promulgated. During the preparation of the law-project, were you called upon for consultation and did you participate in any way in the elaboration of these laws ?

>>"The accused Streicher:- Yes, I believe I participated in it insofar as, for years, I had been writing that all mixing of German and Jewish blood had to be prevented in the future. I wrote articles to that effect, and I have always repeated that we had to take the Jewish race, or the Jewish people, as a model. I have always repeated in my articles that the Jews were to be regarded as a model by other races, for they have given themselves a racial law, the law of Moses, which says:

>>>"If you go unto foreign lands, you must not take foreign wives. And this, Gentlemen, is of great importance in judging the Nuremberg laws. It was these Jewish laws that were taken as a model. When, centuries later, the Jewish legislator Ezra saw that, despite this, many Jews had married non-Jewish wives, these bonds were broken. This was the origin of Jewry which, thanks to its racial laws, survived for centuries, whereas all the other races and civilizations were destroyed."

>>Source : Trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Court (Nuremberg : November 14th 1945 October 1st 1946). Official French text. 26th April 1946 Debates, Tome XII. D 321).

Note - German Jews were not actually preaching division and very few of them were Zionist (< 1/2%?). German Jews were overwhelmingly practicing integration - up to 150,000 of them may have served in the German Army - see http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700611789/

The first Germans (and only Jews) arguing in favour of apartheid were the Zionists! Should we hang them too?

(Note - despite Julius Streicher being labelled as the race "theoretician" of the Nazis, he didn't claim any personal contribution to the Nazi racial laws of 1935, only that his logic was applied. Der Sturmer was popular pre-war because it was pornographic - its circulation slashed to some 15,000 during the war to save paper).

http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700611789
150,000 Jews, not 10,000. Also the book has a good rating so its a good source. It is a well researched book and not bullshit and it cites sources.

http://www.amazon.ca/Hitlers-Jewish-Soldiers-Descent-Military/dp/0700611789

Why am I a kook for stating facts?