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Reuel is a former Luftwaffe pilot and member of the Hitler Youth who was born as Karl Heinz Schneider in Germany in 1924. As a young boy he was involved with the Hitler Youth , where he organized battalions. In 1942 at age 18, Karl Heinz voluntarily joined combat forces in the Luftwaffe and soon became a dive bomber pilot flying a Ju 87 Stuka , which was at one point considered to be one of the most advanced dive bombers in the world. Germany was perpetrating at the time the Holocaust , a genocide which took the lives of three million Polish Jews , representing 90% of the Jewish population of Poland at the time, destroyed an entire civilization, and killed millions of other Jews as well. Once Schneider walked past a synagogue in a small Polish town, where his squadron was stationed. Schneider happened to witness Nazi storm troopers killing a group of Jews in a courtyard of the synagogue . The sight of the synagogue's rabbi , who did not let go of the Torah even in his death made a great impression on Karl Heinz. He became a changed man; from then on he used all means to disobey the orders. He faked illness to avoid flying, he dropped bombs into lakes and forests, where no people could have been hurt, and even altered bombs' detonators to prevent them from exploding. Even so, Schneider still felt he should pay somehow for the harm he brought to innocent people. After the end of the war, he decided to work as a coal miner for twenty years. During those years, as self-imposed penance , he anonymously donated two-thirds of his wages to organizations that helped Jewish war orphans, and Jews who survived concentration camps . After his penance ended, he sold the land he owned in Germany, and bought a farm in Galilee , Israel . He then went to rabbis in Haifa , told them his story and asked to be converted to Judaism . Rabbis who investigated the story, permitted the conversion, in spite of the fact that the applicant had years of service in Hitler 's army.1Karl Heinz Schneider changed his name to Abraham Reuel, studied Judaism, and became a citizen of Israel .2
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Reuel Abraham (born 1924), born Karl Heinz Schneider , was a Hitler Youth member and Luftwaffe pilot during World War II reported to be the first former Nazi to convert to Judaism.In 1942 Schneider joined the Luftwaffe serving as a dive bomber pilot.Stationed in Poland, he witnessed the execution of a group of Jews by members of the SS.He claimed that following this experience he began to pretend to be ill in order to avoid combat, missed assigned targets, and tampered with bombs to prevent detonation.As a penitence following the war, he worked for twenty years as a coal miner, donating two thirds of his income anonymously to groups supporting Jewish orphans and survivors of the concentration camps.In 1965, he emigrated to Israel, buying a farm in Galilee, Israel.Schneider changed his name to Reuel Abraham, converted to Judaism, and became a citizen of Israel.He was circumcised in a hospital in Haifa.
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Reuel Abraham (born 1924), born Karl Heinz Schneider , was a Hitler Youth member and Luftwaffe pilot during World War II reported to be the first former Nazi to convert to Judaism .
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Hitler Youth member who converted to Judaism later in his life Reuel Abraham (born 1924), born Karl Heinz Schneider , is a former Hitler Youth member and Luftwaffe pilot during World War II reported to be the first former Nazi to convert to Judaism .
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former luftwaffe pilot and member of the hitler youth who was born as karl heinz schneider in germany in 1924
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former hitler youth member and luftwaffe pilot during world war ii reported to be the first former nazi to conv
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