The Easterners were extremely poor and therefore needed to earn their bread and butter as beggers in a lot of cases, while the Westerners were well established middle-class people or even wealthy businessmen. Those groups met eachother with some disdain. We could call them Western and Eastern Jews (not his words, but mine).
The reason for this was, as he told us, that the Jews were split into two different groups: The ones who had been arround in Germany and Austria for generations and the ones that mostly had come from eastern Europe more or less recently back then. He avoided prosecution due to his parents leaving everything related to their cultural background behind way before the NSDAP took over in Germany. Kirschbaumer or something similar to that. I can't recall his name anymore, I think it was Mr. I'm Austrian and about two decades ago, when I was still going to school, we had the opportunity to talk to a Jewish "survivor" of the Third Reich. GodlordBazi Күн Власенко Well, in terms of Jews serving in the Wehrmacht, this information could be very much valid.