Posted on 07/05/2012 10:33:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Adolf Hitler made a personal intervention to spare a Jew from the Holocaust that consumed millions of Jewish lives it has been revealed.
Hitler made the dramatic intervention to protect Ernst Hess, his old company commander from the Flanders trenches of the First World War, who had risen to be a judge in post-war Germany
In a letter from August 27, 1941 to the Dusseldorf Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler, one of the architects of the Final Solution, instructed the secret police to grant Hess "the relief and the protection as per the Fuhrer's wishes". Himmler also instructed all authorities that Hitler's old comrade in arms was not "to be in-opportuned in any way whatsoever".
The letter was unearthed in a Gestapo file on Hess by Susanne Mauss, editor of the newspaper Jewish Voice from Germany.
Christened a protestant, Hess had a Jewish mother and that under Nazi race laws that made him "a full-blooded Jew", and a prime target for persecution and eventual destruction.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
and he was kind to dogs.... I mean what the heck is your point?
Berta was deported and died in Auschwitz. Hess's mother, Elizabeth was also deported but survived.
People who made the mistake of trusting Hitler wound up dead.
I think the point is: Hitler was a hypocrite.
True... in more ways than one in fact.
I can’t understand why the media puts fascists on the right side of politics. There’s nothing “republican” about them.
I think the point is this: Hitler was a human being, capable of anything you or I might do. It was his humanity that fooled millions of Germans, so that his insanity might rein free. Those working closest too him, like his secretary Traudl Junge (spelling?) thought of him as a kind man.
I am not a defender, but I have read everything I could find on this man. I have visited his former home in Berchtesgarden. I know from my reading that WWI was a formative event in his life, and by all accounts he fought bravely. As a corporal, he was awarded the Iron Cross for gallantry - almost unknown for one of such low rank.
That he intervened on behalf of a trench mate would surprise no one.
No HItler was evil. Evil men do as they please
Damn iPad. Sorry for the quad post.
This is a testament to the strength of the ties formed in battle.
Even murderous left-wingers like Hitler can build indissoluble bonds of camaderie with men they fought alongside in the trenches.
Think of most of the Socialist leaders you know. For instance: those miserable twats Che, Kerry, Clinton or Obama.
If they had ever fought in the mud in a shooting war, rather than just commanding a firing squad, collecting purple hearts, dodging the draft or hanging curtains, they might have made some honest friendships in their lives.
Well said. :)
I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years by Victor Klemperer.
I'll quote from one of the reviews:
...the most disarming and appealing feature of this tome is its slow and ineluctable building of suspense and empathy as World War I veteran Klemperer steadily weaves the day to day details of his life in Nazi Germany in the 12 years of that regime into a portrait of a rogue state moving irresistably down the path to tyranny and terror. The reader is sucked into the vortex of what it is like to live under such circumstances, where an aging Jewish professor who has built a life of purpose and meaning based on scholarship, hard work, and the belief in the rationalism of the state begins to understand that it will all unravel around him.
If you haven't read the books -- it's a 2-book set -- set some time aside this summer. You'll find it unforgettable.
His book makes clear that WWI was THE defining moment of his life; his original rejection by the German army (because he was Austrian) convinced him that the Auschluss (sp?) had to happen, and his conviction that the Central Powers had won the war only to be cheated by communists on the home front dictated just about everything he did. Even Operation Barbarossa, viewed in hindsight as folly, was done in light of the fact that in 1917, Russia had surrendered to Germany. For all of the armchair quarterbacking and comparisons to Napoleon’s disaster in Russia, the fact is that the Central Powers had beaten Russia, and without US intervention were on the verge of beating France & Britain (at the time of the armistice Germany still had 1 million troops in Russia).
I had read that Hitler had “exempted” any Jews who had been decorated in WWI from extermination; I don’t know whether or not that was true. I also read that he had done the same for his landlord from his days in Vienna (again, can’t confirm).
thanks for the link. I put both book on my Amazon wish list.
“I can’t understand why the media puts fascists on the right side of politics. There’s nothing “republican” about them.”
“Repubican” means a lot of things; in France during their revolution, and in Spain during their civil war, “republicans” were the far left. They wanted to replace traditional monarchies with egalitarian utopias (in theory, not practice). Basically, the “right” protected private property rights and the right to worship in Europe in the 1930s, while the “left” promoted secularism and re-distribution (the secularism being the object to remove any preferred treatment, such as subsidies, control of education, or even exemption from taxes for the Church).
“Fascists” were right-wing governments, such as Franco, Salazar, and Mussolini envisioned; they didn’t have the racial ideology of the Nazis, and were domestic right-wing reactions to attempted communist takeovers of Spain, Portugal, and Italy respectively (Hitler himself was such a reaction as well, but his agenda went far further as far as a “new world order”). They suppressed individual liberties as a means of stabilizing their countries, rather than see them fall to communist mobs. While Mussolini’s government fell with the fall in Axis fortunes during the war, the other two survived for decades as stable countries in an unstable post-WWII Europe.
“People who made the mistake of trusting Hitler wound up dead.”
Ironically it was Jews that lamented that the only one who kept his word to them was Hitler (in the worst way).
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