# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roddie-edmonds
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:48:14.122Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roddie-edmonds"
name: "Roddie Edmonds"
slug: "roddie-edmonds"
description: "Roderick 'Roddie' Waring Edmonds, was a U.S. Army infantryman renowned for his courageous stand during World War II. As the highest-ranking American non-commissioned officer captured by German forces in December 1944, Edmonds was interned at Stalag IX-A, a prisoner-of-war camp in Ziegenhain, Germany. On January 27, 1945, Edmonds refused an order by German officers to identify Jewish-American soldiers, possibly for separate execution, instead defiantly declaring that \"We are all Jews here.\" The captors relented, sparing the lives of up to 300 Jewish-American prisoners of war."
tagline: "American infantryman and POW honored as Righteous Among the Nations (1919–1985)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Roddie_Edmonds_from_Chris_Edmonds.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1919-08-20"
deathDate: "1985-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.29
  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.426074666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B4%D1%96_%D0%95%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81"
    title: "Родді Едмондс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddie_Edmonds"
    title: "Roddie Edmonds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddie_Edmonds"
    title: "Roddie Edmonds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddie_Edmonds"
    title: "Roddie Edmonds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99_%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A1"
    title: "רודי אדמונדס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodijs_Edmondss"
    title: "Rodijs Edmondss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddie_Edmonds"
    title: "Roddie Edmonds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddie_Edmonds"
    title: "Roddie Edmonds"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8"
    title: "Эдмондс, Родди"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21789535"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump