Jewish airmen in WWII

[G. Warrener]

Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski

I still find it weird that nobody can say there were hundreds or thousand in XAF, famous ones being Y and Z.

Well there was "Sos" Cohen – or Lionel Frederick William Cohen DSO. MC. DFC. for a start. Flying with Coastal Command as a rear gunner in his sixties.

If you want I can search out all the Jewish war graves at Rheinbeg & Reichswald cemeteries.

BUT...................

Still I am unconfortable with the weighting of this thread.

I do not care if an allied airman was Jewish, Atheist, Christian (Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Quaker, Methodist, Baptist, Greek-Orthodox, Mormon, Dutch Reformed, etc) or Buddhist (Burmese Tiffy pilots) or even Islamic (i.e Egyptian Gladiator pilots) or the brave Sikhs in their Vultee Vengeances.

Maybe there were even Christians in the Japanese forces.....

If one person is capable of killing another inspired by political dogma – then why do you choose to emphasize Jews in the NKVD rather than Soviet atheists in the NKVD?

OK I do accept that Poland was always the victim of aggression, rather than aggressor (excepting little bits of Czech territory in the late 1930s) The extremes of the Shoah took place on Polish soil – but the prime-movers were German

But I am disturbed the underlining of Jews in the Red Army or Jews who defected from the Polish Forces in the Middle East.

Look at events in post war Poland – even statements from the famous and otherwise quite admirable Solidarity president from Gdansk. The moment a Jew achieves any position – he becomes a target, even a ‘threat’

It is a European phobia, even now an Arabic phobia – but I refuse to have any part in it.

The ramp at Oswiecim is the lowest common denominator.

Some wanted to see all Jews on the ramp – some merely want to know how many Jews belonged to organisation X

I may be too suspiscious – but it does spook me

Graham