servicing in the Wehrmacht did not serve in the Middle East; nor, did the Mischlinge become leaders in the establishment of the Jewish National Home.
Dr Rigg's publication is quite illuminating. The objective of the Mischlinge was to prove their loyalty to their Homeland (Germany). However, his paper is often cherry-picked. Please take note that:
"In February 1934
Generalfeldmarschall Blomberg
(Minister of War, and Commander-in-Chief of the German Armed Forces), on his own initiative,
had all of the men considered to be Jews serving in the Reichswehr given an automatic and immediate dishonorable discharge. As a result, 74 soldiers considered to be Jewish lost their jobs for no other reason than their having "Jewish blood". The
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, enacted in April 1933, had excluded those Jews who were First World War veterans and it did not apply to the military, so Blomberg's discharge order was his way of circumventing the law, going beyond what even the Nazis wanted at the time; the German historian Wolfram Wette called the order "an act of proactive obedience". The German historian Klaus Jürgen Müller wrote that Blomberg's anti-Semitic purge in early 1934 was part of his increasingly savage feud with Röhm, who since the summer of 1933 had been drawing unfavourable comparisons between the "racial purity" of his SA, which had no members with "Jewish" blood, and the
Reichswehr, which did. Müller wrote that Blomberg wanted to show Hitler that the
Reichswehr was even more loyal and ideologically sound than was the SA, and that purging those
Reichswehr members who could be considered Jewish without being ordered to do so was an excellent way to demonstrate loyalty within the National Socialist system. As both the German Army and Navy had long-standing policies of refusing to accept Jews, there were no Jews to purge within the military; instead, Blomberg used the Nazi racial definition of a Jew in his purge. None of the men given dishonourable discharges themselves practiced Judaism, but all were the sons or grandsons of Jews who had converted to Christianity, and thus were considered to be "racially" Jewish. Blomberg ordered every member of the
Reichswehr to submit documents to their officers, and that anyone who was a "non-Aryan" or refused to submit documents would be dishonourably discharged. As a result, seven officers, eight officer cadets, thirteen NCOs and 28 privates from the Army, and three officers, four officer candidates, three NCOs and four sailors from the Navy were dishonourably discharged, together with four civilian employees of the Defence Ministry. With the exception of
Erich von Manstein, who complained that Blomberg had ruined the careers of some seventy men for something that was not their fault, there were no objections. Again, on his own initiative as part of "self-Gleichschaltung", Blomberg had the
Reichswehr in May 1934 adopt Nazi symbols into their uniforms. In 1935, Blomberg worked hard to ensure that the Wehrmacht complied with the
Nuremberg Laws by preventing so-called
Mischlings from serving."
SOURCE: Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg
While before WWII (and the holocaust), there were many Jews in the German Armed Forces, with the rise of NAZI party dominance, by 1935, there is no record of how many, if any, Mischlinge actually took the
This is vastly different from what we are talking about relative to Arab Leaders in Palestine.
