One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted the Germans but actually played a major role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. The question he contends is not whether the Jews fought but where and by what means. True many Jews were poorly armed outnumbered and without resources but Ginsberg shows persuasively that this myth of passivity is solely thata myth. The author describes how Jews resisted Nazism strongly in four major venues. First they served as members of the Soviet military and as engineers who designed and built many pivotal Soviet weapons including the T34 tank. Second a number were soldiers in the U.S. armed forces and many also played key roles in discrediting American isolationism in providing the Roosevelt administration with the support it needed for preparing for war and in building the atomic bomb. Third they made vital contributions to the Alliesthe Soviet Union the United States and Britainin espionage and intelligence especially cryptanalysis and fourth they assumed important roles in several European antiNazi resistance movements that often disrupted Germanys fragile military supply lines. In this compelling cogent history we discover that the Jews were an important factor in Hitlers defeat. show more