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your Bundesarchiv index your book on Nuremberg trial your Robert Kempner index your Himmler index your Hitler index Jews in Nazi military service Reply-To: H-NET List for History of the Holocaust < [email protected] > Sender: H-NET List for History of the Holocaust < [email protected] > Author: Charlotte Opfermann If memory serves me well, Dohnyani also was related to Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer .

Also, a relative (nephew?) of Dohnyani is now mayor of Hamburg and took a ‘strange’ stand during the recent Walser controversy. Further, a German colleague (Dr Guenther Schubert , Berlin) sent me this information: Die Liste von aktiven Offizieren, die selbst oder deren Ehefrauen jüdische Mischlinge sind und vom Führer für deutschblütig erklärt wurden, findet sich im Bundesarchiv in Aachen-Kornelimünster, Zentrale Nachweisstelle.

Sie wurde vom Heerespersonalamt im Januar 1944 aufgestellt und enthält die Namen von 48 Wehrmachtsoffizieren jüdischer Abstammung, wobei mit peinlicher Sorgfalt vermerkt wird, ob der jüdische Blutsanteil 50 oder nur 25 Prozent beträgt. Von Hitler persönlich waren sie zu Ariern erklärt worden. I’ll be happy to share the essay in its entirety with German-speaking colleagues. He gave me permission.

Personally, I am not sure that this list is complete — as I could probably ‘rattle off’ such a number of ‘jüdisch versippte’ Wehrmacht members from memory. My father-in-law Wilhelm Opfermann held the rank equivalent to a general in the Wehrmacht supply corps (in spite of his 100% Jewish wife) with many great perks (limo, permanent suite at the Wehrmacht-occupied Hotel Quai d’Orsay in Paris, et al.) Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann College of the Mainland, Cont.Ed. Dept.

English, Texas City Houston TX USA and Nikolaus Kopernikus University Torun/Poland [H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine] Send comments and questions to H-Net Webstaff

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Original Publication: 2005-01-01
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