Soldiers of Zion.

The article presents an account of the author's father, the German Jewish emigre and soldier Oscar Westreich, and accomplishments in the British army in Palestine during the time of Israel's formation. Details are given describing how Westreich fled Nazi Germany immediately after the rise of dictator Adolf Hitler in 1933, how he resettled in British Palestine, and served with the British Army during World War II. Accounts are then provided noting the illicit underground stockpiling of supplies by Jewish soldiers from British supplies in order to later support Israeli independence. Conclusions are made suggesting that Israel would not have survived as a nation if the supplies were not kept from this period.