Mel Brooks a Hero in the truest sense of the word. I don’t know what songs Mel Brooks picked to play but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was “The Jazz Singer” a double whammy a Jewish singer singing the music Hitler hated most.Įven at war he had a sense of humour. I would have loved to see the reaction of the Nazis as the music of Al Jolson was blaring away.
It has been reported that when the Germans played propaganda recordings over loudspeakers, Brooks responded by setting up his own sound system and played music by Al Jolson, a Jewish musician. It advanced with the Allied forces through France, Belgium, and the Netherlands and entered German One of his tasks during the war was to defuse land mines, and he also fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
He served as a corporal in the 1104 Engineer Combat Battalion, 78th Infantry Division as a combat engineer.The 1104th had been activated in March 1943 and landed in Normandy on 11 June 1944. Before he could complete his degree in psychology from Brooklyn College, Brooks was drafted into the Army to fight during World War II.
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