"Jews who wore Nazi uniforms." There were many of them. They included two field marshals, one of whom was Erhard Milch, who "masterminded German aircraft production and transformed the Luftwaffe." His father was Jewish. At least 77 senior officers were Jewish, or of "mixed Jewish race or married to Jews." They included eight lieutenant generals, five major generals, and 23 colonels. Seventeen "Jews in Nazi uniform" were awarded the Knights Cross, Germany's highest military honour. In all probability there were many more. The research is continuing. Some of the stories are bizarre. One Jew got to German-occupied France in 1940 and later joined the Waffen SS under a new name. He is still alive. Another visited the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to visit his father, "wearing the Iron Cross he had earned in battle." Another lost his mother in Auschwitz. He and others are now asking whether they were "victims or perpetrators." A Jewish film-maker and holder of the Iron Cross First Clbutt worked in the German propaganda office in Paris in 1941.
Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was an officer in the Luftwaffe even though his grandfather was a Jew. Schmidt kept his background secret. And fought for Hitler.
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