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He died at the age of 98 in 2022. But what makes private first-class Nadler's story particularly impactful is that he was Jewish, an enemy of the Nazis in an American uniform. Let's get into this story.
Here's Milt. I was on the street with my bicycle doing something, I don't know, and then Pearl Harbor happened. So I was a paperboy for the Trenton Times, so they were passing out extras. So I immediately grabbed all I could and went out an extra extra, you know, and then bomb me in Pearl Harbor and I got nickels and dimes. It was only two cents for a paper, but whatever they gave me, thank you, thank you, thank you. I sold a ton of papers.
I went back and got more until I realized what really happened. So I made a lot, not a lot, maybe, well, maybe $5 that day, but $5 at that time, that was a lot of money because we were very, very poor. I had no father. I was supporting my mother and my sister. So I had two or three little jobs in the morning before school. And I did so many little jobs that I really couldn't study in school.
So I hate to admit this, but I finished the seventh grade and that's all. And I went to work because I figured it's going to be drastic anyhow. So I might as well work. And I worked until I got into service, of course, you know. I enlisted in the Navy and they kicked me out because they found out I was colorblind and I had my uniform and everything. I told my mother and all of a sudden, they gave me the bad news and they said, well, we'll get you in the army right away.
You're not worried. So they did. So my dog tags say regular army. And I went to Camp McCain, Mississippi, a brand new camp. And it had rained the day before. There was mud and bugs and oh, I'm a city kid.
I don't like snakes and bugs, you know. This is a funny story. So I was sitting on a rock just figuring out what am I going to do now?
What's happening? Here I am in the army. And this sergeant walks up to me and he says, who are you? I says, Private Milton Adler, sir. He said, you don't call me, sir.
I'm a non-com. Okay. He says, you know what?
You look strong enough. I'm going to put you on guard duty tonight. You're going to go from that tree to that tree from 10 to 12. He says, follow me. We'll get you a gun.
So it comes 10 o'clock. And I hear Russell in the bushes and Howard halt. And I stuttered a little bit. Look who's here. And there was silence.
He rushed from the bushes again. And I hear, halt. Look who's here.
And up comes the sergeant of the guard. He said, what did you just say? I says, halt. Look who's here. You dummy. You said, you're supposed to say halt. Who goes there? I didn't know. The following morning at breakfast, about a hundred guys stand up and holler, halt.
Look who's here. So that stuck with me. The whole time in my service, I couldn't get rid of it. So when I came home in 1945, I wrote her into the reader's digest.
They sent me 300 hours. So, so we go to England. I was so sorry for the English people. They were taking such a beating. Otherwise a guy would go to work in the morning and come back at night. His house was gone because at that time the bus bombs were going over and we were standing there like, Oh, there's another one. Like a bunch of dummies.
I mean, as long as you can hear them, there's no problem. The minute you can't, straight down. A funny thing, though, our dentist was a drunk. Before he pulled any tooth, he would drink a glass of whiskey of some kind.
So they sent him back to the States. So they said, now we need somebody for a couple weeks to become a dentist. I raised my hand. What have I got to lose? I'll learn something. Maybe I'll come back and be a dentist. And I filled a couple of teeth.
There's nothing to it. Nothing to fill the tooth. You make the hole a little bigger. You clean it out, put a little medicine there. You pack the stuff in real good. You smooth it out.
Goodbye. You know, anyhow, I'd fill a couple of teeth. And when the dentist came, he said, he checked the teeth that I had. He said, you did a good job. You know, the nice thing about it is we were winning.
And when you're winning, you're happy. And just, but we, I know when we went into the farmland of France, the Germans had poisoned the wells. So, you know, our water was terrible. So we'd fill our canteen cups with cowbells. So half the time we had a buzz on, but we never got drunk.
Well, I wouldn't say that. This is the bad part now. We were in an encampment and a lieutenant came up in a jeep. And he says, about a mile down the road, he says, there's a fencing area. And a lot of people there. It's probably a work camp. Would anybody be interested in going up and seeing what it is?
I think they're all Jewish people. So I said, sure. So I went up, we got in his jeep. We went up and the people were so, they were, what happened is it was burned out and they were making shells for the Germans. And as long as they were there, they worked 12 hours a day, they fed them. The minute the plant burned down, the Germans left and took all the food, whatever they had and so on. They're starving here. Their teeth were black. Their eyes were in, sunken and, you know, there was a pile maybe of six bodies and the smell.
You have no idea what the smell of the place was. And I said, I don't know what to do now. I'll go back. I'll get whatever I can. Gum, food, candy. Underneath our helmets, we have a little cap.
Give them some caps. Let's get whatever we can. We got whatever we can and laid everything out and they come out like animals, like just worse than animals. I remember I don't talk about it too much because it was a bad, bad time. And anyhow, just after that was the bulge. And we were captured, but we didn't realize it. They were all around us, but they figured if they couldn't take us, what are they going to do with us?
They had to feed us. So I'm on the radio and my captain was Captain Tim and he came on the radio. He says, I want you to get a hold of battalions and tell them to blow the breeching of the 105s because the Germans had a shell. If they capture the 105s, they turn them around and shoot us. So I said, well, how do I know you are Captain Tim?
You may be some German telling us to do that. He said, well, when you're right to Edie, that was my girlfriend, tell her I said hello. And only he would know. So, okay, I get on the radio and I call all five battalions and one guy, some wise guy comes back to me. He says, how do I know this is legitimate? I said, well, it's from Captain Tim. He said, how do we know? I said, well, ask me a question. He said, who played left field for New York Yankees?
I said, Joe DiMaggio. Okay. All of a sudden I hear boom, boom, boom. They're blowing up the breeches of the, you know. So up comes Captain Tim in the jeep.
He spins around. Okay, here's a couple grenades, blow up the radio shack. I said, how can I, all that equipment in there, my mother's picture, all my clothes, my girlfriend's picture. He said, give me the damn grenades.
And he blows up the radio shack. I don't know if I was crying or not, but it was a sad time because that was my home since, you know, I said, well, what do you do now? He said, you see the woods? I said, yeah, go to the woods because the tanks can't come there. The tanks are on the way. Well, me and a Lieutenant and another guy, we take off to the woods and it's drizzling and we're cold.
None of us have heavy stuff on. And we go all night. We ended up in a building and we get out of the basement and, you know, those old buildings had a wooden floor. All of a sudden I hear boom, boom, German boots. We weren't crying, but we were close to it. We were scared as death. And if they go, well, I'm 20 years old. I lived this long. You hear a door open. It's creaking like in a movie, you know, and I see three rifle butts coming down. It was a Free French.
How lucky can we be? But the Free French had a habit. They shoot first, then they ask questions. One was a woman.
I remember she had hair, well, black hair. I don't know why I did this, but I got down on my knees and I hit myself in the chest and Howard, Jewish, Jewish, Jewish. And I hear him talking.
She says, drop your trousers. If I wasn't circumcised, I wouldn't be here today because none of the German soldiers were circumcised. So they gave us bread and water. And we had to stay in there all day because the Germans were all over. But that following night, they brought us to an army hospital and they got us back to the outfit.
The whole world knows I'm circumcised now. And a terrific job on the production and editing by Russ Jones and Monty Montgomery. And a special thanks to the Library of Congress for sharing Milt's story with us, Milton Nadler. And my goodness, what a sense of humor, by the way. What a storyteller. Just after he was born, well, his circumcision saved his life. And yes, it's true. Everyone in the world knows Milt Nadler was circumcised.
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