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"I think that ultimately the way we
view ourselves directly influences the
way we view history and, more impor-
tantly, the way we treat others," says
Rigg, who lived in Ann Arbor for part
of 1999 while his wife completed a
work assignment.
"I didn't know about my
Jewish ancestry until I was
21, and I've explored my
Jewish identity since then.
I've gone to Israel and stud-
ied in a yeshivah. I also
served in a volunteer unit of
the Israeli army.
"My family changed from
being a little shocked by this
information to being curi-
ous. My mom now goes,
every now and then, to a
messianic synagogue, and
she has 'Shalom, Y'all' on
her wall. She's interested in
telling people about her
Jewish past."
Rigg, who has served in the U.S.
Marine Corps, is looking to his future
as he works on two follow-up books.
The first, In Search of Hitler's Jewish
Soldiers, tells about the people he met
and stories he heard while doing his
research. Another work, labeled histor-
ical fiction because of incomplete veri-
fication, has to do with Lubavitcher
Rebbe Joseph Schneersohn, thought to
be spirited through German lines by a
Mischling soldier.
Materials gathered for Hitler's
Jewish Soldiers — 30,000 pages of

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Left: "Half-Jew" and Field-Marshal
Erhard Milch, left, with General
Wolfram von Richthofen. Hitler
declared Milch Aryan after Milch's
mother falsified on an affidavit
that her Aryan uncle, rather than
her Jewish husband, had fathered
her six children. Milch was
awarded the Ritterkreuz for his
performance during the 1940
Norway campaign.

Right: "Quarter-Jew" and Nazi Par t y
member Franz Mendelssohn,
at his desk in 1940, was
a direct descendant of the famous
German Jewish philosopher
Moses Mendelssohn and helped
build torpedo boats and U-boats.
He refused to change his name as
his brother had done; comrades in
positions of power protected him.

Thinking As A Jew

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documents, more than 500 hours of
videotaped interviews and 3,000 pho-
tographs — were purchased by the
Federal German Military Archives
and are housed in the Bundesarchiv
in Freiburg.
- "Many of the soldiers persecuted

Blond and blue-eyed
"half-Jew" Werner
Goldberg in a 1939
photograph used in a
Nazi propaganda
newspaper with the
caption, "The Ideal
German Soldier." At
one point, Goldberg
convinced Berlin
officials not to send his
sick Jewish father —
the father of a German
soldier — to a forced
labor camp.

during the war for being partially
Jewish started thinking of themselves
as Jewish after the war," Rigg says.
"Many of the people who talked with
me explained that the older they get
the more Jewish they feel." 111

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