Quote Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman View Post
It's basically a contraction of "that's a jew". I picked it up from someone's testimony in World at War. C speaks kraut .. could I have misheard?
Oh, I thought you were trying to say 'The Jew'.

I suppose it's entirely possible a non-German speaker (a Ukrainian or Lithuanian or whatnot) might use that crude form to identify an unfortunate Jew.