America and the 'GI Jews' | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
On March 19, 2019, the world press widely reported that the chief executive of Volkswagen (VW), Herbert Diess, apologized for... Fred Friendly was a military reporter whom General Eisenhower had transferred from the Pacific to Europe. He saw “the machinery of death” in Mauthausen. The stench of stinking bodies overwhelmed him. Indelibly imprinted by the experience, he described it as “his bar mitzah, his emancipation, his baptism rolled into one.” The “blood and smell” of the prison camp made him a committed Jew for the rest of his life. On the other hand, Jews serving in the Paci...
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