For the Honor of Our Fatherland: German Jews on the Eastern Front
during the Great War focuses on the German Jews' role in
reconstructing Poland's war-ravaged countryside. The Germany Army
assigned rabbis to serve as chaplains in the German Army and to
support and minister to their own Jewish soldiers, which numbered
100,000 during the First World War. However, upon the Army's
arrival into the decimated region east of Warsaw, it became
abundantly clear that the rabbis might also help with the
poverty-stricken Ostjuden by creating relief agencies and
rebuilding schools. For the Honor of Our Fatherland demonstrates
that the well-being of the Polish Jewish community was a priority
to the German High Command and vital to the future of German
politics in the region. More importantly, by stressing the
importance of the Jews in the East to Germany's success, For the
Honor of Our Fatherland will show that Germany did not always want
to remove the Jews-quite the contrary. The role and influence of
the German Army rabbis and Jewish administrators and soldiers
demonstrates that Germany intentionally supported the Polish Jewish
communities in order to promote its agenda in the East, even as the
modes for future influence changed. By implementing a philanthropic
agenda in the East, the Germans recognized that its success might
lie in part in enfranchising the Jewish population. Moreover, the
directives of these relief agencies were not only beneficial to the
impoverished Jewish communities, but the German Army had much to
gain from this transnational relationship. The tragic irony was
that Germany returned to the East in the Second World War and
killed millions of Jews.
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