An Incredible Fact About Hitler's Military
History has proved to us that NAZI Germany was one of the most brutal regimes in the history of the world. Usually a country, no matter how tyrannical, does not seek to murder its own when it is seeking world domination, but in this case the NAZIs stated that the Jew were not really Germans, but an inferior race and did all sorts of horrible things to them, including putting them in concentration camps and murdering them. Even horrific medical experiments were conducted on them, without any remorse what so ever. Jewish shops were closed and everything was taken from them. We all know that the Jews suffered terribly at the time as did other races of people. About half of all the concentration camp inmates and forced labor inmates were Jews. The other half was composed of Gypsies, Poles, Russians and various other races.
Knowing how the NAZIs felt about the Jews makes what I am about to tell you even stranger. It seems that not all Jews were equally hated and there were many who served in the German military. The NAZIs considered anyone a Jew that even had a Jewish ancestor. The German navy somehow was able to protect the Jews in its service and some had even risen to the higher ranks and made admiral. An example of this was the Admiral who captained the Bismark, the greatest German battleship of World War II. His name was Admiral Gunther Lütjens. When the Bismark and Prinz Eugen set out to sea, he was in charge of the two ship fleet and sunk the British battleship Hood. When Hitler had come to inspect the Bismark, Lütjens, was the one who received him. When he sunk the Hood, Hitler sent a personal telegram to the admiral congratulating him on a job well done.
Field Marshal Rommel Obviously not all Germans in the military felt that the Jews should be even shut out of the war, let alone killed and tortured. Another example of this was the famous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Rommel though dead, was never accused of any war crimes and was considered humane. He had ignored orders to kill captured Jewish soldiers and civilians, which did not endear him to many of those in power such as Himmler. As the war went on, Rommel felt that he had to do something to rid his country of Hitler and his crew of madmen and he joined the plot to kill Hitler. We know that the plot was unsuccessful. Because of his stature among the German people, he was told that if he didn't resist his execution, his family would be treated as those of a great hero and allowed to keep everything that they had. He agreed and was murdered. Hitler actually approved of thousands of men of Jewish descent and hundreds of what were known as full Jews serving in the German Army in World War II. "If there were Jews in (Hitler's) armed forces...who served knowing what was going on and made no attempt to save (lives), well then that is unacceptable and dishonorable." , stated the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Institute, Rabbi Marvin Hier. Some of these men were high ranking officers. It is said that there were two field marshals and fifteen generals that fell into this category. Some of these men commanded as many as 100,000 troops. Why did Hitler, who hated the Jews and wanted to destroy all of them, trust these men? This is one of the greatest mysteries in history and shows a great inconsistency in Hitler, Himmler and the rest of the NAZIs
Field Marshal Erhard Milch In Middle An example of a high ranking Jewish field marshal was Erhard Milch who was deputy to Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Goering. People had know about his Jewish identity for many years before the war started. Herman Goering was criticized for having a Jewish deputy. Goering supposedly said, “I decide who is a Jew and who is an Aryan.” He had been caught changing the birth records of Milch. One Jewish man was helped to escape Germany by Major Ernst Bloch. His father was a Jew and he was a highly decorated war hero. There were actually at least 20 Jewish soldiers that received the highest military award that Germany could give, it was the Knight's Cross. When asked what it was like to be a Jewish officer in the German Army in World War II, an elderly Jewish veteran stated that he practiced his religion the whole time he was in the army and no one ever complained about it.
Himmler When one looks at the people that were carrying out the monstrous task of killing Jews, we find that they were really social outcasts and may have been mentally ill or just plain evil. Himmler was certainly a very strange character that believed in satanic powers and even had the heads chopped off of some SS officers so he could use them in a ceremony Then there was Heinrich Himmler's chief lieutenant Reinhard Heydrich, a bloodthirsty killer who enjoyed carrying out the orders that let him kill possibly hundred of thousands of people in the cruelest of ways. He had chaired the Wannsee Conference, which discussed plans for deporting and exterminating all Jews in German occupied territory. He died from the results of an assassination attempt in Prague. What can we learn from all this? I can only tell you what I think that I have learned and that is that Hitler didn't really believe what he preached. He preached that Jews were responsible for the problems that Germany had and that they were sub humans that had to be destroyed. But it seems that he might have only been saying that because he thought that the German people wanted a scapegoat and that this would pull them together for world conquest. How could someone who supposedly hated Jews so much have allowed them to not only be in the German military, but to hold extremely high ranks? On top of that he allowed them to be awarded the highest medals that Germany had to offer. I ask you, is this the actions of a person who truly believed that Jews were evil and had to be exterminated? I am not saying that Hitler was misunderstood, far from it, he was a vicious murderer, but I am saying that he really didn't believe what he preached. |
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