Ideal Soldier

Gregor Rozanski


On Dec. 1 1939 Werner Goldberg joined the Wehrmacht. He took part in the invasion of Poland on September 1 1939. Shortly after the beginning of the war his picture appeared in the Sunday edition of the Berliner Tageblatt with the caption "The Ideal German Soldier". Werner was a half-Jewish German, so called ãder MischlingeÓ, but had no idea his father was Jewish...