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Like all things political, you can get just about anything if you're well connected or very wealthy.
In the case of nazi Germany, the key was a document called an Aryan Certificate, which was your 'get out of concentration camps free' card. A few very well connected Jews were able to get these, including Milch. With that certificate, they were no longer Jews, but proper Aryans.
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Regarding Milch, his mother declared that his biological father was another man, an Aryan, so he would be treated as Aryan.
In other cases when "honorary Aryan" certificates were issued, they had a provision that the certificate would be reconsidered after the war is over, so all the "honorary Aryans" were to undergo one more selection after the war, possibly, based on their performance during the war.