MORE THAN 100 YEARS LATER, 12,000 German Jews who fought and died for Germany during WWI, now will be identified as Jews

More than 100,000 Germans of Jewish faith served for Imperial Germany during the First World War. Around 12,000 of them never came home. More than a century later, the German-Jewish soldiers of World War I were still resting under grave markers used for Christians.  Finally, in 2026, in a project called ‘Operation Levi,’ the Latin crosses on the Jewish gravesites were replaced with Stars of David.

Ironically, some 20 years after WWII, the surviving German Jewish soldiers were exterminated by the country they served and would have laid down their lives for.