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Thread of excerpts I found interesting from The Jewish threat: anti-Semitic politics of the US Army amazon.com/Jewish-Threat-…

One Lieutenant became convinced that danger of Jewish internationalism wasn't confined to Russia

He predicted a massive backlash by Russians against Jews

Colonel Briggs attributed anti-semitism in Vienna to Jews flaunting their wealth, and was impressed it hadn't lead to violence

An intelligence report found massive Jewish overrepresentation in Bolshevism

The military attaches had consistently negative views about Jews:

One professor from Cornell predicted a violent backlash in America to Jewish influence:

Before the outbreak of WWII the army war college had many more entries on communism than Nazism. Officers wanted tighter immigration restrictions, to curtail this threat.

One Colonel thought that conflict with Germany would result in a bloodbath that would radically alter civilization.

One retired general saw the war as a plot to establish Jewish hegemony and didn't think Americans should be fighting alongside communists en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Va…

After the war general Wedemeyer wrote that entry into the war was pushed by the British, Zionists and Communists

Mockery of Jews in the army during WWII was common though outright anti-semitism was relatively rare

Generals opposed general emancipation of Jews in the middle east so that they did not inflame tensions

Eisenhowers key generals had diametrically opposed views of Germans

Some British officials saw Zionism as similar to Hitler's quest for Lebensraum

One Major's views of Austrians/Jews were flipped after a couple on months in the field

Many military officials had a low opinion of Jewish DPs

One Major felt that Jews were vengeful and that betrayed the cause that Americans had fought for

Eisenhower harbored a hatred for the Germans in his letters to his wife:

Retired Colonel Beaty saw liberalism as a method of advancing Jewish interests, and thought WWII was unnecessary and pushed by the Roosevelt administration

Anti-communist Freda Utley compared Jews belief that they were the "Chosen People" to Nazis idea of the master race. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Utl…

The book doesn't make it clear how prevalent views like these were in the military but clearly prevalent enough to fill a book with... The revolution in thinking that took place in views on Jews/race in the west was seemingly a radical reversal similar to the fall of communism

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