Der jüdische Frontsoldat : Erinnerungen an den 1. Weltkrieg /

This essay was an attempt to show that Jews had been the equals of non-Jewish front soldiers in the first World War. By showing many examples of individual heroic acts, Eugen Neter makes the point that Jewish soldiers were only identified as Jewish, if they failed in their military duties, but not if they performed heroic acts. Another section deals with the relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish soldiers. Eugen Neter concludes from his own studies that in many personal encounters religious prejudice was invisible.Neter mentions German Zionists who returned from Palestine in order to participate as German soldiers in World War I; and he honors specifically the Jewish poets Hugo Zuckermann and Walter Heymann who were killed during the war.digitizedBorn in Gernsbach on October 29, 1876, Eugen Neter was a physician who settled in Mannheim in 1903. He fought in the German army during World War I. 1938-1940 he was chairman of the Jewish community in Mannheim. He was deported to Gurs concentration camp in 1940, emigrated to Palestine in 1946, and died in Deganiah, Israel, on October 10, 1966.See also Eugen Neter Collection, AR 1619.Verband der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Frank, Ludwig