How Hitler Personally Saved His World War I Jewish Commander
Photo: Ernst Hess, Adolf Hitler’s company commander in WWI, who was, despite his Jewish roots, spared from the genocide unleashed by the Nazis
* Ernst Hess commanded Adolf Hitler’s unit during the First World War
* Baptised a Protestant, he had a Jewish mother and was thus regarded a ‘full-blooded Jew’ by Nazi race laws
* Although finally thrown in concentration camp in 1941, he survived the war to become president of the German Federal Railways Authority
Some German Jews escaped the Holocaust by fleeing the country, others hid and some
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