Nazi policies required that Jewish POWs were to be segregated from the rest of the soldiers so they could be sent to certain death in a concentration camp. On Jan. 26, 1945, Nazi officers ordered that only the Jewish soldiers under Roddie's command were to report for roll call the next morning.
But Roddie immediately informed his men that they were not to obey the order. "We're not doing that," he said. "Tomorrow, we all fall out."
The Nazi commander was filled with rage when he found all 1,292 of the American soldiers standing in sharp formation the following morning. "They cannot all be Jews!" the commander said angrily to Roddie.
"We are all Jews here," Roddie replied.
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