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Ex-Nazi Pilot Converts to Judaism, Finds a Home at Last i
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HAIFA — Twenty years after nate to find him an ultra-OrthodoxI Rabbi Kahane promised it would
be witnessed the slaughter of a Jewish girl willing to be his wife. be done.
group of Polish Jews by Nazi
stormtroopers, Karl Heinz Schnei-
der has become the first ex-Nazi
to convert to Judaism and become
an Israeli citizen.
His new name is Reuel Abraham
("I saw the God of Abraham," in
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Schneider, a Nazi air force Pi-
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of truth — and I found it in Is.
rael."
An organizer of Hitler youth bat-
talions, Schneider volunteered at
age 18 for combat service with the
Luftwaffe's crack dive-bombing
Stuka squadrons.
While strolling through the
streets of a Nazi-occupied Polish
town one day, he saw a group of
Jews being slaughtered by Nazi
stormtroopers. An aged rabbi died
embracing the holy scrolls in the
courtyard of his synagogue.
Schneider, now 41, was so sick-
ened by what he saw, he did every-
thing in his power to shirk duty—
pretending illness to avoid combat,
dropping bombs on uninhabited
forests or into lakes and tampering
with detonators to make sure his
bombs did not explode.
With the surrender of Germany,
Schneider vowed 20 years of
He went to work in Ruhr
coal mines and donated two-thirds
of his monthly wages — anony-
mously—to institutions for Jewish
war orphans and concentration
camp survivors. He never married.
Despite his frugality, Schnei-
der rose to the post of managing
director of a major German coal
mine. He taught himself Hebrew
and bought an Israeli-made Bi-
ble and other prayer books. Un-
der an assumed name, he attend-
ed Saturday services in a Frank-
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furt synagogue.
The period of penitence was over
last year. Schneider sold his prop-
erty in West Germany, resigned
from his post and bought a farm in
Israel's western Galilee.
The Haifa rabbinical authorities
found it hard to believe his story
at first, but emissaries of Israel's
Supreme Religious Council be-
came convinced of his sincerity.
Schneider grew a beard, prayed
three times daily observing all 363
precepts of Jewish religious law.
Rabbi Reuben Kahane of the
Supreme Religious Council said
the intensity of the man's faith
dispelled all doubts.
Speaking a fluent Hebrew,
Schneider has been granted an Is-
raeli identity card by the immigra-
tion and naturalization service.
And he has requested the rabbi-
33,000 W. German Jews
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BERLIN (ZINS) — A total of
33,000 Jews are now residing in
West Germany. Of this number,
,26,000 are registered in 70 com-
munity councils while 7,000 have
refused to register. The majority
of the Jewish population in Ger-
many originates from Poland, Hun-
gary and Romania.
In the years 1953-1960, 7,000
Jews emigrated to Israel from
Germany, according to figures
made public by Dr. H. Van Daam,
general secretary of the Jewish
Central Council in Germany.
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