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Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds was a master sergeant of the 422nd Infantry Regiment in the United States Army during World War II, who was captured and became the ranking U.S. non-commissioned officer at the Stalag IX-A prisoner-of-war Camp in Germany, where—at the risk of his life—he prevented an estimated 200 Jews from being singled out from the camp for Nazi persecution and possible death. For his defense of Jewish servicemen at the POW camp, Edmonds, a Christian, was awarded the title "Righteous Among the Nations"—Israel's highest award for non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Of 25,000 people, worldwide, to receive the award by early–2016, Edmonds was the fifth American—and the first American serviceman from World War II—to be so recognized. His service was the subject of a politically sensitive speech by President Barack Obama at the Israeli Embassy in Washington....

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