would come to his jewish comrades, roddy immediately said, we're not doing that. he sent orders to have every american step out of line with their jewish brothers in arms. the next morning, 1,292 americans stepped forward. the german commander stormed over to roddy and said, they cannot all be jews. roddy stared right back. he said, we are all jews here. at that point, the german put a gun to roddy's head and demanded, you will order the jews to step forward immediately or i will shoot you right now through the head. roddy responded, major, you can shoot me, but you'll have to kill us all.