British and American POWs of Jewish background were mostly treated in accordance to the Geneva convention, though there are stories of survivors in which they say they were singled out and treated worse than their non-Jewish compatriots.

The generally better treatment or treatment in accordance with the Geneva convention of Jewish American and British POWs by the Nazis was largely related to the fear that if they would start killing Western POWs, the US and GB would retaliate by killing German POWs.

There are however two caveats here:. In 1944, the Nazis decreed the so-called Kugelerlass, meaning that any Allied officer who tried to escape captivity (something that according to the Geneva convention was not punishable by death but only by disciplinary action) were to be shot at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp.I n case of Western Allied officers this had to be signed off by the OKW but a couple of Western Allied officers, some Jews among them, were killed in this action.

But probably the best known case where this actually happened was the case of 350 Jewish American POWs taken from Stalag IX-B near Frankfurt to the Berag Concentration Camp, a sub-camp of Buchenwald. As per Mitchell G. Bard's Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler's Camps., in 1945 the 4000 prisoners of Stalag IX-B were assembled in their camp and were instructed that all the Jews should step forward. Some of them were known as Jews because of their dog tags while others had discarded them upon capture and ultimately the Germans who ran the camp assembled 350 American Jewish POWs from Stalag IX-B.

On February 8, 1945 they were deported to Berga in order to perform forced labot for the Nazi war industry that was tied to the Buchenwald sub-camp. Conditions in Berga were much worse than in any POW camp for Western Allied soldiers. According to the recollection of William Shapiro in this NYT article:

Shapiro sees the G.I.'s, 350 of them, selected by the Germans for extermination because they were Jews [whether they were taken their for extermination is doubtful, at least not in the sense of killing them but rather not caring about their deaths under given conditions], or looked like Jews, or were deemed "troublemakers" or were just grabbed at random because the Nazis needed slave labor late in a lost war, and European Jews were already dead by the millions and those not yet slaughtered were too weak to work; he sees the Americans, in a place they could not comprehend, an ephemeral little hell for which they had no preparation or instruction, a Nazi concentration camp at Berga, in the east of Germany, too small to appear on most World War II maps; sees the bedraggled men, privates in their late teens or early 20's, fighting over crumbs, chewing pieces of wood or charcoal to try to stanch diarrhea, eating snow, coughing blood from throats lacerated by rock shards in the mines where they labored, slipping away in the night without a word. People who die of hunger and thirst die in silence. Either you strangle that memory or it strangles you. The shame of survival is sometimes too much to bear.

On April 4, the commandant of Berga received the order to evacuate the camp. At least 50 of the POWs had died by this point and the rest were taken with the other prisoners on a death march, lasting another 36 days. All in all, about 70 of these men died, which not only makes Berga the camp with the highest mortality rate where American POWs were held but also represents about six percent of all Americans who perished as POWs during World War II according to Bard.

So, yes, there is a historical precedent for what you see in that video. However, this one case represents the aberration and not the norm. While Jewish-American GIs have spoken of being treated worse than their compatriots for the fact that they were Jewish and of getting rid of their dog tags to hide that fact, an SS officer beating them and hauling them off to a concentration camp as a matter of policy or even something that occurred more often than in one particular case (where we virtually don't know anything about the concrete historical background), is not historically accurate so to speak.

I have written before about this game and some of the apparent controversy it has generated with regards to being historically accurate and while I'll try to withhold judgement until the final product, my previous answers also talks about several conceptual problems I have with WWII video games (especially those placing a high emphasis on multiplayer) in general and the general way these "controversies" this game has started there. All in all, while this portrayal is not historically accurate, I don't see this as its biggest shortcoming in terms of how WWII video game media engages with the history it portrays.

Sources aside those mentioned:

• Flint Whitlock (March 2005). Given Up For Dead - American GIs in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga. Basic Books.

• Christian Kretschmer: ‚Gelungene Flucht – Stufe III‘ – Hintergründe, Entstehung und Opfer der ‚Aktion Kugel‘. In: Christoph Dieckmann, Babette Quinkert (Hrsg.): Kriegführung und Hunger 1939–1945. Zum Verhältnis von militärischen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Interessen.