WORLD WAR II - AN UNTOLD STORY
WORLD WAR II – AN UNTOLD STORY Another of the great untold stories has to do with the countless heroic Jews who served in the U.S., British and Russian militaries during the War. These soldiers’ vital contributions to the Allied war effort remain buried, partly due to a generally accepted myth that Jews were overwhelmingly victims during the Holocaust. It was believed that only in Israel were there tough, strong, fighting Jews. But there are other, perhaps biased, reasons that these stories have not yet come to light. The tale of an extraordinary, little-known unit, known as X Troop, is a case in point. In 1942,the Germans seemed to be unstoppable in Europe. Desperate to change the course of the war, Winston Churchill and his Chief of Combined Operations decided to create a commando unit of Jewish refugees. Many of them were in concentration camps before their escape to the U.K., and most had lost their families to the Nazis. They came from Germany and Austria as teen...