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"...were 290 Jewish high commanders in the Soviet Army during World War II. Among them were 278 generals, including 9 general-colonels, 48 general-lieutenants, and 220 general-majors. Four generals (J. Keizer, Y. Gorodensky, L. Skvirsky, and Y. Danishevsky) were army commanders, four generals (I. Babich, I. Rubin, Y. Shteinman, and Z. Rogozni) commanded corps. Thirteen generals headed rifle divisions and three generals commanded cavalry divisions.

About 20 generals served in the High Commander Headquarters, the Soviet Army General Staff, the Navy and Air Force Staffs. They closely participated in development and implementation of the main strategic operations of the Soviet Army during the war. More than 50 Jewish generals headed industrial, construction and transportation agencies and ministries, which worked for war needs. One of them was General-Colonel Boris Vannikov, the minister of ammunition during the war time.

During World War II about 600,000 Jews served in the US Army, including 26 generals and admirals. Among them were American high ranking officers D. Sarnoff, M. Rose, M. Krulevich, L. Markus (all of them of Russian-Jewish origin).

There are 101 biographical sketches of the high-ranking Jews who served in the Armed Forces of the USSR, Great Britain, France, Italy, German, Poland, Yugoslavia and other countries. Not surprisingly, the USSR is on the top of this list due to its huge Jewish population at the beginning of WWII and this country’s significant role in the war. Biographies of 54 Jewish generals from the former USSR are given. Many were victims of political persecutions before the war and the state antisemitic policy after the war.

Following Russia is Israel with its 30 generals including Haim Laskov, Mordechai Maklef, Yigal Allon, Moshe Dayan, and Ezer Weizman. It is interesting to note that many of them had Russian roots. Another characteristic feature of Israeli generals is that almost all of them started military service from low positions and then, due to their talents, reached top posts in the IDF at the relatively early age – in their 30s.

Many of Israeli generals had not only extensive military training but got university degrees in various technical and humanitarian disciplines. After retirement a lot of them entered politics and became members of the Knesset. General Ezer Weizman became the seventh president of the state of Israel. Many of the retired Israeli generals got top positions in the state economy."

http://www.jewishtribune.ca/arts-and-culture/2012/08/21/jewish-generals-and-admirals-in-the-2oth-century-there-were-more-than-you-think

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  George Ronceatot pentru bibliografie: http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html
  
  The Jewish Role in the Bolshevik Revolution
  and Russia's Early Soviet Regime
  
  Assessing the Grim Legacy of Soviet Communism
  
  by Mark Weber

  

  The Jewish Role in the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia's Early Soviet Regime

  www.ihr.org

  In the night of July 16-17, 1918, a squad of Bolshevik secret police murdered Ru

  ssia's last emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, along with his wife, Tsaritsa Alexandra, their 14-year-old son, Tsarevich Alexis, and their four daughters. They were cut down in a hail of gunfire in a half-cellar room of the hous...