Because the American Bryan Mark Rigg, at this time history student, fins out that his family has german-jewish roots, he travels to Germany. While watching the film “Hitlerjunge Salomon", he meets a man who tells him, that so called “Jewish mongrels” fought at the front for the german “Wehrmacht” during the Second World War.
The film renarrates, how Rigg researched this theme, what was preponderating ignored by historians, from 1992 on several years. About 150.000 soldiers of jewish origin served for the german “Wehrmacht” at this time. Traveling through the country, Rigg interviews contemporary witnesses and gets evidences in the form of letters, diaries, awards and proofs of “german origin of blood”. This archival he uses for his graduation about this theme and for the (in the meantime in german published) book “Hitler’s Jewish soldiers”.
Director Heike Mundzeck used these researchs of Brigg for her film and choosed eleven witnesses, who tell their destiny. These persons are so called “mongrels”, “half-Jews” or “quarter-Jews”, how Nazi-terminology characterised them. Mostly they felt not “jewish” any more at this time, what declares why most of them could’t appraise their own dangerous situation. Several believed, that they could prove not to be an “inferiour german” through being patriotic and brave. In addition to this, they wanted to protect their relatives against racially persecution and destruction with serving for the “Wehrmacht”.
They also report about displeasing moments during youth, about indignities in “Wehrmacht”, about permanent threats because of being recovered and although about national pride. The witnesses tell Mundzeck about the experiences with not-jewish comrades, about military events and misusages. Accessorily the film deals with the mostly unknown practice of “Arisierung” of soldiers with jewish origin through hitler as commander of the “Wehrmacht”.