What is werner goldberg?

Werner Goldberg was a soldier in the German Wehrmacht during World War II. He became famous for appearing in a recruitment poster for the German Army in 1939, which was used as propaganda to recruit more soldiers. The poster featured Goldberg, who was of mixed Jewish and German heritage, with the caption "I am a German soldier and I will serve Germany." This was seen as a contradiction to the Nazi regime's anti-Semitic policies.

Goldberg was later discharged from the army in 1940 due to his Jewish heritage, despite being considered Aryan under Nazi racial laws. He was able to escape to the United States and settled in New York City, where he lived out the rest of his life in relative anonymity. Goldberg's image on the recruitment poster became a symbol of the complexities and contradictions of the Nazi regime's ideology on race and ethnicity.