Product Description: In ""Jewish Identities, the German Army, and the First World War"" David J. Fine offers a surprising portrayal of Jewish officers in the German army as integrated and comfortably identified as both Jews and Germans. Looking at how Judaism and Christianity were practiced in the army and how Jewish soldiers reacted to encountering other Jews in the conquered lands of the eastern front, Fine argues that Jews were strongly identified as both Germans and Jews...read more

The author explores the often overlooked historical issue of Jews or 'partial Jews' serving in the Germany military--as many as 150,000 men who served as enlisted men, officers, and even generals. (Military History)