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Look at this “perfect Aryan” soldier—blue-eyed, heroic… and legally half-Jewish. Today we're exploring the twisted logic of Nazi racial ideology, the lives of Mischlinge who served in the Wehrmacht, and the remarkable story of Werner Goldberg, once hailed in Nazi propaganda as “The Ideal German Soldier.”
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Further Reading:
Rigg, Bryan Mark. Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and the Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military. University Press of Kansas. 2002. Accessed via The Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/hitlersjewishsol0000rigg/page/n7/mode/2up
Rigg, Bryan Mark. “Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers.” WarfareHistoryNetwork.com. 2014. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/hitlers-jewish-soldiers/
“Werner Goldberg.” Military-history.fandom.com. https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Werner_Goldberg
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Aryan." Encyclopedia Britannica, June 21, 2025. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Aryan.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Victims of the Nazi Era: Nazi Racial Ideology.” The Holocaust Encyclopedia. September 20, 2024. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/victims-of-the-nazi-era-nazi-racial-ideology
“German Blood Certificate.” Military-history.fandom.com. https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/German_Blood_Certificate
Montalbano, William D. “The Jews in Hitler’s Military.” LATimes.com. December 24, 1996. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-24-mn-12209-story.html
“Adolf Hitler and the Origins of the Berlin-Tokyo Axis.” The National WWII Museum. November 3, 2021. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/adolf-hitler-and-origins-berlin-tokyo-axis
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