Franz Josef Strauss, West German Defense Minister, has urged that the names of Jewish soldiers, who died for the “German fatherland,” be re-stored on public monuments and honor tablets. The names were removed during the Nazi period.
A study, “Jews in the German Cultural Realm,” published by the Juedische Verlag and distributed by the Federal Bureau of Information, reports that more than 100,000 Jews fought for Germany from the time of the Napoleonic wars. During the first World War, 12,000 German Jewish servicemen died in action.
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