(Algemeiner) Mitchell Bard - 600,000 Jews served in the U.S. armed forces in World War II; 35,000 were killed, wounded, captured, or missing; 8,000 died in combat. Among those who were captured, some became victims of the Holocaust - singled out for death because they were Jews. I documented many of the cases in Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps. On Dec. 20, 1944, 300 U.S. soldiers were captured near Bleialf, Germany, by the Germany Army, along with 30 Germans who had been prisoners of the Americans. The former German prisoners informed the German commander that there were two Jewish soldiers among the captives who spoke good German and had interrogated them. Jewish GIs had an "H" on their dog tags to identify them as "Hebrews." The two Jews, Staff Sergeant Kurt Jacobs and Technician Murray Zappler, should have been treated as prisoners of war. Instead, they were shot.
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