Experiences of antisemitism by German frontline soldiers in the First World War

The First World War is characterised by images of soldiers dying in an unprecedentedly cruel manner. They had marched to the front just a short time before, with roses in their rifle barrels. Among them were 100,000 German front-line soldiers of Jewish faith. The 'Burgfrieden' (truce) proclaimed by the German Kaiser was their duty. Mourning the 12,000 fallen German front-line soldiers of Jewish faith, the aggressive form of anti-Semitism at the front and on the home front became an additional h ...