Todd wrote:

Yikes! Shows that the Nazis and Soviets liked to wipe
out even their friends, if they had an organization
separate from their own, even when they thought they
could control them.

It's a slow read but Rigg's 'Hitler's Jewish Soldiers' documents a strange
phenomenon. The most famous was Field Marshall Erhard Milch:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Milch

His mother wasn't Jewish so he technically wasn't a Jew but a Mischling and
was declared an Aryan. That's where the book bogs down, the minute
examination of the racial laws.

Even sadder, many middle class German Jews thought of themselves as Germans
and really didn't like the backward eastern Jews either. They thought Hitler
was just talking about the kaftan wearing Orthodox from the polish shetls.