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Re: Jewish airmen in WWII
Hang on a moment......it may seem a pointless discussion to some, but I have learned a little about European naming conventions, so I treat it as a small positive.
Is there a suggestion in the last two posts that there is something anti-semitic about my postings? (Let others speak for themselves.) I deny it.
Given that the entire struggle was about the Nazi ideology, and the treatment of Jews was an intrinsic part of that, then any Jewish airman was risking (in the event of capture) rather more than the average Protestant or Catholic, and also could be considered as having rather more reason to be involved. It would be grossly unfair to them to consider their religion as minor a point as the difference between (say) Free Baptist and Episcopelian. Being a Jew was important in WW2 whereas being a Wee Free or Methodist wasn't.
Personally, I have no problems with deciding who was in the right. Casting doubt over that is rather more worrying, even despicable, than queries into the ethnic/religious composition of the participants.
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