the largt numberf americs whhave e er gone to fight in sobody ee's vil war.inkhey wentabove l, because ofhe dger of fascis , "forw yorker said later us, it was never about franco, itas a alws abouou hitler." another young american, who was a a 23-yr-olold rabbi, wroteo his mother from spainbebeforee wakilleded saying, "if he ha nocome t t spain, for the rest of mlilife, nevever uld haha forgiven myselfor not wing when thalarm cloc rang. most of t arican lunteersere jewi. coulyou expln what aounts for that? adam: t couplef things the ft thatitler s rapidly sing. he had ce to powern german in 1933, he was making no secret that life was going to be very tough for the jews. the full extent of the holocaust, nobody could imagine. it was clear terrible things were coming. jews were also heavily overrepresented in the left wing in the united states. the organization of most of these volunteers was organized by the communist party in this country and the other countries the volunteers came from. not all of them were communist. many of them came from other strains of