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Bryan Mark Rigg born March 16, 1971, is an American author and speaker who received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He is based at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Rigg discovered a large number of "Mischlinge" (part-Jews) who were members of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or "Nazi" Party) and/or served in the German Armed Forces during World War Two. His work has been featured in ''The New York Times'' and on programs including NBC Dateline and Fox News. Reared as a Baptist Christian, he discovered he was of Jewish descent, converted to Judaism and served as a volunteer in the Israeli Army. He also later served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. His assembled documents, videotapes, and wartime memoirs on the subject are presented as the Bryan Mark Rigg Collection at the Military Archives branch of the Federal German Archives (Bundesarchiv) in Freiburg, Germany. His book ''Hitler's Jewish Soldiers'' earned him the Colby Award (for first books in military history) in 2003. ==Biography== Born and reared as a Baptist, Rigg studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, continued on to Yale University, and received his B.A. in 1996. He received a grant from the Henry Fellowship, to continue his studies in Cambridge University. That summer he went to Germany, and met Peter Millies, an elderly man who helped Rigg understand the German in a movie they were watching, Europa Europa, about Shlomo Perl, a full Jew who "hid in plain sight" in the Nazi army, posing as a Volksdeutsche orphan named Josef Peters. Millies later told Rigg that he himself was a part-Jew, and introduced him to the subject which was to become his main research topic for many years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righit.html ) Book review.〕 Back at Cambridge, Rigg offered the subject as his thesis, but was rejected on the grounds that it was "dead end science". Upon insisting, he finally received a year off, and small funding from Cambridge for a research trip back to Germany, under Professor Jonathan Steinberg. Steinberg contacted the media about the future research, which caused much debate about the scientific value of the outcome.〔 About Rigg's study and personal interest in the subject.〕 During this year, traveling under harsh conditions on bicycle throughout Germany, he gathered over four hundred recorded interviews, with "Mischling"s of this sort. He also discovered that he had Jewish origins. He followed up on the trip to Sweden, Turkey, Canada, and finally Israel. He identifies himself today as Jewish,〔(returned to his family in Texas, where he had grown up as a devout Baptist Yale biography ) "He now identifies himself as Jewish...." See also (Not Really Jewish? ) Where a Jewish woman with a non-Jewish mother discusses maternal hereditary Jewish nationality with Prof. Rigg.〕 and studied in Israel at the "Ohr Sameach" yeshiva. He also joined a short volunteer program at the Israeli army.〔 Archived profile from ''The Jerusalem Post'' about Rigg.〕 Rigg has done humanitarian activities in Romania, Bulgaria, the Bahamas, South Africa, and France.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dr. Bryan Mark Rigg ) A website for German soldiers, and research about German military history. See also the (Thanksgiving Square ) interfaith organization, and his speech at the Dallas Baptist Church: 〕 His discoveries and writings have been used both by Holocaust researchers, as well as Holocaust denial and anti-Zionist groups.〔 Lists Rigg's book in the bibliography; book's title echoes his, and the content emulates his, in the Israeli setting. The two books are quoted in anti-Israeli and antisemitic websites such as the infamously popular blogs ''This is Zionism'' (copying the Chronicle's article) and ''Why I hate Israel 2'' (suggesting the books as recommended books). Another such book is the Reverend Stephan Sizer's ''Zion's Christian Soldiers''.〕〔The antisemitic JewWatch.com website has an entry on April 29, 2006, on Hitler's Jewish "Mischlinge" Soldiers, between an article about a survivor of 10 death camps, proving according to the site that the camps were not death camps, and an article about Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert from "a nation that kills hundreds of thousands of mostly unarmed Moslims".〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bryan Mark Rigg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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