The fighting spirit of Jews in the ranks of the Polish Army was highly praised today by Gen. Wladyslaw Anders, commander of the Polish Second Corps, in an interview published in Dziennik Polski, organ of the Polish Government-in-Exile.
Emphasizing that very few Jews have deserted from the Polish Army “since the desertions in the Middle East,” Gen. Anders, who commands Polish troops in Italy, said that “the Jews have fought well on the from lines and have done excellent work also in other capacities in the Polish Army.”
Speaking of the Jewish officers and men who have fallen on the battlefields, Gen. Anders said that the Second Polish Army Corps has 838 Jews, including 132 officers, of whom one officer and 27 men were killed in action and one officer and 51 men were wounded.
The ratio of Jewish officers to Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army is one to six, while among Poles the ratio is one to seventeen, he disclosed. There is also one Jewish chaplain to each 415 soldiers of Jewish faith.
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