Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity By Yorai Linenberg

Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity American and British Prisoners of War during the Second World War Yorai Linenberg Challenges the accepted view of the indiscriminate nature on the Holocaust, drawing on evidence suggesting that tens of thousands of Jewish POWs from western armies were treated mostly in accordance with the 1929 Geneva Convention Provides a detailed description of the experience of American and British Jewish POWs in German captivity by consolidating personal memoirs, oral testimonies, Red Cross reports and other primary sources Analyses the behaviour, as it relates to the treatment of Jewish POWs, of different levels of the German hierarchy, from Adolf Hitler, through the German High Command, to the POW organisation Points to the German POW organisation, and some of the individuals within it, as a body that, in the case of non-Soviet Jewish POWs, was able to act independently and protect them without suffering any consequences as a result FacebookTweetLinkedInEmail