Were there any jews/half jews involved with the Nazi Party?
There were a few. By the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 which defined who was a Jew, the Nazi government of Germany created categories of “mischlinge” (literally “mongrels”), who were part-Jewish according to Nazi criteria. If you were a mischling but could meet the Aryan-appearance criteria, and wanted to, you could apply for “aryanization” papers, which declared you officially Aryan. Therefore at least a few people who were halachically Jewish ended up in the Nazi war machine. See: Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers, The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military by Bryan Mark Rigg Rigg demonstrates that the actual number of Jewish men in Hitler’s ranks was much higher than previously thought–perhaps as many as 150,000 men, including decorated veterans and high-ranking officers, even generals and admirals.
NOPE…. In fact I have a marriage license of my cousin who lives in Germany. She was married during the time of HITLER and during that time when you applied for license to marry they traced your family tree to make sure there was no Jewish blood in the family. IF there was you were arrested and that was it. The marriage certificate I have has over 100 pages and it traces both sides of the family (bride and groom) back to the early 1400’s! Hitler did a great job on that one… it saved genealogists a lot of work. I thought Hitler had some jewish blood in him…according to a book I have…but Hitler’s father was illegitimate and to this day there is some question about who his grandfather was. Throughout his career he was dogged by rumors about his pedigree, some of them circulated by his fellow Nazis. In 1933 the London Daily Mirror published a picture of a gravestone in a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest inscribed with some Hebrew characters and the name Adolf Hitler. It’s now known the
