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It's important to remember how much religious bigotry existed at that time. Many people of the Jewish faith fought and died in WW2. Back home they were banned from staying in many hotels and buying homes in certain neighborhoods simply because of their last names.
That was very moving indeed. My dad lived in both Hot Springs and Milwaukee growing up. Even though his family were german catholics , they also could speak Yiddish and knew people who were jews.In fact a school mate invited him to Passover at his home.This was when daddy was in highschool. He asked grandma and grandpa if he could go,and they had no objections to it,so he went.I don't recall him mentioning anything like that happening in Milwaukee in regards to jews staying in hotels,etc.. The neighborhood he lived in on 16th Street was mainly Germans,Czechs and Poles. There probably were jews who lived in the neighborhood as well as catholics and lutherans,etc. Their attitude towards jews might have been different than say up in Boston or in the South.
Certainly the military should have had chaplains of the three faiths even long before WW2.Catholics like jews had to endure predujice as well at times, but for jews it may have been worse at times.
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