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Even Elie Wiesel, the Nobel-Prize winning survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, battles with the question:  Why didn’t the Jews fight back?  And lastly, because of the conditions--even today, who'd think what was occurring?--he proves the question is “not why all of the Jews didn't fight, but how can most of them DID.  Tormented, beaten, deprived, where did they discover the power--spiritual and bodily--to avoid?”  Actually, more than 10,000 German Jews—34 percentage of the refugee population between your ages of eighteen and forty—fought within the allied armies of World-War II.    This guide respects these Western-created Jewish combat veterans of World-War II--refugees from the Nazi regime in Germany and Austria who confronted their persecutors by joining the Allied Forces in a fight the nation of the birth.  These twenty seven interviews get visitors in to the special and traumatic encounter of German and Austrian Jews who supported as Allied troops in Northern Africa and Europe--courageous men and one-woman whose support renewed a feeling of self-esteem and permitted them to increase above their previous victimization at the hands of Nazi oppressors.  All burned with rage at the Germans who'd exposed them, usually as young kids, to cruelty in every day life within their hometowns, and to ridicule within the nationwide media.  As troopers who knew the language and mindset of the enemy much better than some of their friends, they hit back with new found satisfaction from the widespread injustice that had annihilated their own families, ruined their leads, and exposed most of them to the worst types of physical mistreatment, both arbitrary and terrifying.  Within The Enemy I Knew they tell their tales, and the planet is richer for their brave acts, and for their account.