A Ceremony for Jews Who Fought for Germany WWI...

A Ceremony for Jews Who Fought for Germany

November 9, 2010
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Jack Ewing, New Yourk Times, Nov.7, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/08/world/europe/08germany.html German soldiers, including one wearing a skullcap with his uniform, filed silently through a leaf-covered cemetery in Frankfurt on Sunday to lay wreaths at a memorial for 467 Jewish soldiers killed fighting for the kaiser during World War I.
The memorial, the first public service at the site for as long as anyone can remember, was organized by the Association of Jewish Soldiers, a small but growing group in the German military whose existence testifies to the feeling by at least some Jews that it is possible for them to be patriots again in the nation that once tried to wipe them out.
Some 12,000 Jewish soldiers died fighting on the German side in World War I. Jews hoped that military service would promote their acceptance into German society, according to speakers at the memorial and a panel discussion afterward. Instead, after the war, Nazi “stab in the back” myths blamed Jewish treachery for Germany’s defeat.

 

A historic event indeed, it's good to see recognition being given to the vets.

Did they do one for World War 2 as well? The reasons many of them fought for are pretty powerful.