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

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Bright, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No chips. No tears. Illustrated with nearly 100 photos. From the Dust Jacket: "On the murderous road to 'racial purity' Hitler encountered unexpected detours, due largely to his crazed views and inconsistent policies regarding Jewish identity. After centuries of Jewish assimilation and intermarriage in German society, eliminating Jews from the rest of the population was more difficult than he had anticipated. As Bryan Rigg shows in this provocative new study, nowhere was the heinous process of racial cleansing more fraught with contradiction and confusion than in the German military. Contrary to conventional views, Riggs reveals that a startlingly large number of German military men were classified by the Nazis as Jews or 'partial-Jews' (Mischlinge), in the wake of racial laws first enacted in the mid 1930s. He demonstrates that the number was much higher than previously thought - perhaps as many as 150,000 men... But as the war dragged on, Nazi policies came to trump military logic, even in the face of the Wehrmaccht's growing manpower needs, closing the legal loopholes... Based on deep and wide-ranging research in archival and secondary sources, as well as extensive interviews with more than four hundred Mischlinge and their relatives, Rigg's study breaks new ground..." Extensive chapter notes (107 pages). List of SS and Wehrmacht Ranks. Bibliography. Index. Original tan cloth. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. xxi, 433pp.