Saw this yesterday. It is one of the better documentaries, with lots of stills and footage that I haven’t seen before.
I’ve never been able to verify a brief story I read once. The young Hitler was in the Austrian Army. While under intense gunfire and shelling, he and the others were pinned down in trenches.
Suddenly Hitler stood up and said “I’m leaving.” The others stayed because standing up outside the trenches meant certain death. But then a shell hit the trench and killed the men where Hitler had been. Hitler was fine.
I haven’t found if this was a legend or fact.
Same with a story that Dr.Mengele while he was secretly living in South America (proven fact) was a passenger in a car accident. The others were all killed or seriously injured. Mengele emerged shaken up but totally uninjured.
Still can’t find that story again to verify its accuracy.