# What did the Nazis do with captured American soldiers who were Jewish?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 23, 2008, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-nazis-do-with-captured-american-soldiers-who-were-jewish/464816 "2008-09-23T11:32:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-nazis-do-with-captured-american-soldiers-who-were-jewish/464816/21 "2016-10-17T13:01:26Z")

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Any idea how many Rabbis/chaplains served? Can’t be _that_ many, and even fewer as POWs.

Not disbelieving you, but the number must be extraordinarily few.

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-nazis-do-with-captured-american-soldiers-who-were-jewish/464816/22 "2016-10-17T13:11:34Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Any idea how many Rabbis/chaplains served? Can’t be _that_ many, and even fewer as POWs.
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> Not disbelieving you, but the number must be extraordinarily few.

Asked in new OP [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=807639](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=807639)

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-nazis-do-with-captured-american-soldiers-who-were-jewish/464816/23 "2016-10-19T19:14:10Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would like to disagree with you. [http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/europe/us-pow-holocaust-hero/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/europe/us-pow-holocaust-hero/index.html)

A great story indeed. I have a new WWII hero.

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-nazis-do-with-captured-american-soldiers-who-were-jewish/464816/24 "2016-11-30T15:04:04Z")

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Another state honor for Sgt. Edmonds in Israel. [Good news articl](http://www.timesofisrael.com/posthumous-honor-for-us-officer-who-saved-200-jewish-gis-from-the-nazis-and-never-told-a-soul/)e, with new (to me) details; even better: has 10-minute video of wonderful talk by his son, Chris Edmonds, Pastor at Piney Grove Baptist Church, Maryville, TN.

It follows last year’s placement among the Righteous at Yad Vashem–probably as meaningful a recognition you can get “officially” in Israel. ([Article](http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-honors-us-gi-who-told-the-nazis-we-are-all-jews/) from last year on that; mentions bizarre connection to Nixon’s apartment hunting…)

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**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-nazis-do-with-captured-american-soldiers-who-were-jewish/464816/25 "2016-11-30T15:54:54Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would like to disagree with you. [http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/europe/us-pow-holocaust-hero/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/europe/us-pow-holocaust-hero/index.html)

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> A great story indeed. I have a new WWII hero.

Just when you think that there is not going to ever be another good story, something like this comes along to give you some hope.

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