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Jews participated in the Second World War mainly as citizens of the warring states of the anti-Hitler coalition. In the historiography of the Second World War, this topic is widely considered in the context of the Holocaust. However, Jews were not only the object of extermination carried out by Nazi Germany and its allies, but also active participants who influenced the course and outcome of the war. The peculiarity of the struggle against the Nazis and their allies was for the Jews that they were fighting against their own total annihilation. More than half a million Soviet Jews fought in the army, underground and partisan detachments. Tens of thousands of Jews took part in the resistance in the Soviet territory occupied by the Nazis. During the war with Germany, there were about 501 thousand Jews in the troops, including 167 thousand officers and 334 thousand soldiers, sailors and sergeants. Many Jews contributed to the victory by working in the rear. The work of developers of new types of weapons was especially valuable.