Werner Goldberg (October 3, 1919 – September 28, 2004) was a half-Jewish German (Mischlinge in Nazi terminology) who served briefly as a soldier during World War II and whose image appeared in a German newspaper as "The Ideal German Soldier".
Werner had no idea his father was Jewish; he and his brother Martin (born 1920) had been baptized in the Grünewald Lutheran Church at their father's request. Their father himself had grown up in Königsberg a...
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Werner Goldberg (October 3, 1919 – September 28, 2004) was a half-Jewish German (Mischlinge in Nazi terminology) who served briefly as a soldier during World War II and whose image appeared in a German newspaper as "The Ideal German Soldier".
Werner had no idea his father was Jewish; he and his brother Martin (born 1920) had been baptized in the Grünewald Lutheran Church at their father's request. Their father himself had grown up in Königsberg as a member of the Jewish community but had had himself baptized in the local Lutheran church as he wished to become assimilated and had married a Christian. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Mr. Goldberg lost his position under the Nazi law of April 1933, Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which expelled Jewish people from the German Civil Service.
Werner left school in 1935 and became an apprentice at Schneller und Schmeider, a clothing company jointly owned by a Jew and a non-Jew, where many of his...
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