Hitler’s ‘Jewish Soldier’
Hitler’s armed forces included many thousands of men of Jewish origin. How did this come about, and what were their military experiences like? Josie Dunn and Roger Morgan have studied the letters sent home to Germany by Medical Orderly Kurt Herrmann, who was one of these men, an unusual and reluctant young soldier who was a part of the army that invaded Russia.
Black Sea and the Caspian. By August 1942 the Caucasus had been reached, and, as the flag of the Reich was hoisted over Mount Ebrust, Europe’s highest mountain, Kurt Herrmann’s unit was resting (and repairing its worn-out vehicles) in the nearby spa of Piatigorsk.
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