Jewess and Stormtrooper, Romeo/Juliet theme.

[yevkassem72]

Just one thought. A gung-ho Nazi stormtrooper back in the Weimar Republic meets a Jewish woman and falls for her, not even knowing that she is a Jew until it is too late not to love her. And then he is torn between his extreme ideology and his love for a woman condemned by his anti-Semitic views.

 

[snooper]

Just one thought. A gung-ho Nazi stormtrooper back in the Weimar Republic ...

Er ... the Weimar Republic effectively ended with the great depession of 1929. There were no "Nazi stormtroopers" in the Kristalnacht sense until after the Nazi election success of 14th September, 1930.

The basic idea would work well in the period from that election up to January 30th, 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor, and perhaps a little beyond that date, but couldn'r really work after 1933 because her Jewishness would be known..

 

[emap]

Hmmm there is something bugging me here. How would they know? Because far as I know the Jewish population became known by non Jewish citizens reporting, obvious Jewish person, namely a rabbi who is then 'questioned' on other Jews, and the raiding of their Synagogues for anything with names.

Well also if you get reported as Jewish they would I am sure question you and search your house.

However it is quite possible to be Jewish and nobody knows, especially say if you had just moved into Germany, were smart enough to recognize what was happening for what was actually happening. Now of course there is also one thing that apparently everybody forgot, not all Jewish persons were put into a camp. Some were in the military research areas, not as test subjects, many did actually serve in the fighting side, a few known, most unknown. Not to mention a few Jewish persons who got on the good side of Hitler that were spared the camps, along with their family because they served a purpose. So really you could have the idea taking place between a captain serving as a jailor on such a persons family and the daughter.

Of course he would know to start, but would make for an interesting story. Especially when he gets word the family is going to be sent to the camps because Hitler has 'fired' the father.

 

[yevkassem72]

Er ... the Weimar Republic effectively ended with the great depession of 1929. There were no "Nazi stormtroopers" in the Kristalnacht sense until after the Nazi election success of 14th September, 1930.

The basic idea would work well in the period from that election up to January 30th, 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor, and perhaps a little beyond that date, but couldn'r really work after 1933 because her Jewishness would be known..

I'm avoiding the whole Kristalnacht business, nasty and despicable as it was, for certain. This is a member of Rohm's SA, who has absorbed some of the Nazi mentality, but is not gay like many of his brown-shirted comrades. He finds her attractive, whereas she is a bit leery of him for obvious reasons. The Judaism thing doesn't become an issue until he starts trying to romance her, and she refuses to have something to do with him in that way.

I am thinking that she works in the Beer Hall that he frequents, and has sandy hair, so he likes her without having any idea that she is Jewish (especially due to preconceived ideas about Jews and their racial appearance). She defies many of the Nazi stereotypes about Jews: she's not rich, not related to lawyers, not a Communist (but I am thinking that she is a Social Democrat), and while reasonably educated, not an academic. She is fairly secular, but still well-aware that his movement is a threat to her very life in some vague way (ideas like the Holocaust being a bit implausible in her mind, but a long history of pogroms would still linger in the ethnic memory).

He confronts her about why she is so hesitant to have much do with him outside of a friendly patron/waitress relationship, and she tells him bluntly that it is because he is a Nazi. Not aware that she had strong political views (probably going with his misogynistic background and a life among excessively macho SA men), he tries to convince her that the Nazis are not bad, but she then points out the anti-Semitism issue. He asks what she has against such views, and she says that she is a Jewess herself. This completely throws him off, as he is not an extremely intellectual man. To question the racial profiles of the Party would never occur to him.

He walks away in confusion at first and has to do some thinking (I almost said sober, but a man like this would have a strong tolerance for alcohol and want to drink heavy spirits during such a dilemma). He has to confront all of the cliches and assumptions that he has about Jews, and wonder if the woman of whom he is rather fond really bears any resemblance to such things.

Of course, he realizes that she doesn't fit the stereotype, so it's not really accurate, and his politics change as he gets involved with her. I doubt that she'd convert him to socialism of any sort, but he wouldn't be a Nazi anymore. They have an affair, but it doesn't last, as both of them end up in trouble with Hitler and get sent by the new regime to different locations.

I am thinking that they never meet again, as he is killed for turning against the Party. She becomes an Israeli in time and marries another immigrant to the new nation, having children and such. But she remembers him very well for the rest of her life, especially as he took her virginity. So, in the end, she's an old woman living on a kibbutz in Israel, while wondering what happened to her former lover in Germany.

 

[rosco rathbone]

A movie was made about this, can't rember the name.