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He joined the Nazi Party, but be- came disgusted by their policies and tactics. For speaking out against the Nazis, he was sen- tenced to a short prison term. In October 1941, the Jung company sent Graebe to Zdol- bunov, south of Rovno in the Ukrainian province of Volynia. He was to manage Jung's pro- jects there, under contract to the Nazi civil administration. The Nazis forced thousands of Jews to work for Jung. Graebe ensured they were well treated. Taking advantage of his contacts with the Sicherheitsdienst (the SD — Nazi intelligence and lat- er, mobile killing squads) in Rovno, Graeber saved his work- ers from deportation to death camps. In 1942, he provided Jewish workers at the Jung head office in Zdolbunov with false Aryan identity papers and, without the company's knowledge, had them transferred to Poltava, hundreds of miles east. Graebe supported them out of his own resources. After the war, Graebe re- turned to Germany. At the Nuremberg trials, he testified re- garding the several occasions on which he observed mass murders of Jews by the SS with the help of Ukrainian militiamen. Because of his Jew-saving heroism and anti-Nazi testimo- ny, Graebe had a difficult life in Germany. He immigrated to the United States and settled in San Francisco, where he died in 1986. Graebe's name can be found in the garden of Righteous Gentiles at Yad Vashem, where he was honored in 1966. Q: As a collector of antique and classic automobiles, I have the op- portunity to observe many makes of historic vehicles. Among these cars is a very durable one produced early on by the Dodge brothers. What is particularly interesting is their logo. It consisted of a six-pointed star in blue and white that adorned the front of all their vehicles from the teens to well into the 1930s. In addition to be- ing on the cars themselves, the star also served as the corporate logo un- til the Dodge brothers sold out to Wal- ter Chrysler. I have been unable to find a satisfactory explanation for this Jewish symbol on the cars. Can Tell Me Why tell me why? From reader DK in West Bloomfield A: Others may dodge your challenging question, but natural- ly Tell Me Why always goes in high gear whenever in search of the truth, no matter how much we may tire. We're glad you came to the right information highway for your answer. Indeed the Dodge logo looks amazingly like a Magen David. But there was nothing Jewish about it, the Dodge brothers or their company. As explained by Caroline Lath- am and David Agresta in their 1989 book Dodge Dynasty, "The symbol...represented Greek deltas, and also was supposed to represent the mystical union of two opposing forces: the light and the dark, the mind and the body, the flesh and the spirit, or pos- sibly Horace and John (Dodge, founders of the company)." Incidentally, there is no evi- dence that King David used the interlocked triangles as his in- signia. The symbol came to be called Magen David (shield of David) because people assumed that the triangles were actually Greek deltas, the initial letter of David, and supposed to represent his name. The delta, from which evolved the English letter D, is in fact derived from the Canaan- ite, Phoenician and Paleo-He- brew letter dalet, also a triangle. Loyal readers of Tell Me Why (and really, isn't that everyone on the face of the planet?) know that previously we explained that while the hexagram (six-pointed star) has a long history within Judaism, it did not become ex- clusively associated with Jews until well into the 20th century. (The first Dodge car that carried the hexagram logo came out in 1915; the Dodge brothers' com- pany was sold to Chrysler in 1928.) (For information on the Dodge brothers, as well as on all aspects of the automobile industry, see the National Automotive Histo- ry Collection at the main branch of the Detroit Public Library.) ❑ Send questions to "Tell Me Why" c/o The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI 48034