Posted on 01/05/2012 7:09:05 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Revealed: The priest who changed the course of history ... by rescuing a drowning four-year-old Hitler from death in an icy river
* Future Fuhrer was plucked from certain death by boy who grew up to join the church
* German newspaper from 1894 reveals incident
It may be the most devastating act of mercy in history. A newspaper report chronicling how a boy of four was saved from drowning has surfaced in a German archive. The child – who historians believe could have been Adolf Hitler – was plucked from the icy waters of the River Inn in Passau, Germany, in January 1894.
According to Max Tremmel, a priest who went on to become one of Europe's most famous organists, his predecessor Johann Kuehberger had rescued the terrified Hitler. Father Tremmel told before his death in 1980 how Father Kuehberger, around the same age as Hitler, had seen the other boy struggling in the waters of the River Inn and dived in to rescue him.
The story was never verified by Hitler during his lifetime. But now a small cutting from the Donauzeitung - Danube newspaper - of 1894 has been found in Passau.
It describes how a 'young fellow' fell through the thin ice of the river in January of that year. The report described how a 'determined comrade' - the paper at the time was left-wing - went into the freezing water to save the child who would grow into mankind's biggest monster.
The near-drowning episode also featured in a German book called 'Out of Passau- Leaving a City Hitler Called Home,' by Anna Elisabeth Rosmus, a personal history of her family's connections with it.
She wrote; 'The banks of the River Inn provided an idyllic setting for the children to play.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
not really. remember that autocracy is nearly always ended with bloodshed (think of the English doing it first with Charles I, then the french revolution). When Nicolae relented and became "soft" after 1904's defeat to Japan, people saw that the Europeans had it better and demanded more
It's like Bahrain of today but on a larger scale
According to August Kubicek, who was friend of Hitler when they were teens, Hitler once rescued his friend’s mother, when she had fallen in a river.
I thought he already jumped in....
Unfortunately the conditions that gave rise to Nazism were not limited to Hitler’s personality. There is an interesting book: “The War Against The Weak” which illustrates just how the Eugenics movement, which was strong in the USA, helped and encouraged the cataloguing and rounding up of Jews & Gypsies in Germany. The Carnegie Foundation on Long Island and IBM were both involved. It seems that Oliver Wendell Holmes was not alone is his desire to eliminate undesirables and to hasten Evolution along. So without Hitler it probably would have happened anyway. IMHO
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Yeah. Whatever. There is, of course, the alternate or parallel universe where that little shnickelgrubber died.
We may share a kinda sorta “harrumph!” attitude toward the phrase “changed history” — history isn’t an irresistable inevitability, it is something made every day, each of us in our small way.
This explains the ongoing popularity of “Risk”.
Hitler also served in the German army during WWI. He saw action on the front lines and distinguished himself to the extent he was awarded the Iron Cross. Equivalent to the Bronze Star with a V designation or perhaps a Silver Star. My point is he could very well have died in combat as many of his comrades did ... he, of course, survived. Sometimes things are meant to be ...
I haven't played the board game for years. But I got up this morning.
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The priest, a comrade, enough said.
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