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CNN
| 11 months ago
Hundreds of thousands more suffered, but somehow survived, in concentration camps. And some escaped, savoring freedom they otherwise never would have known. Then there's Ernst Hess, who was a decorated World War I soldier, former judge and, despite...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
Hundreds of thousands more suffered, but somehow survived, in concentration camps. And some escaped, savoring freedom they otherwise never would have known. Then there's Ernst Hess, who was a decorated World War I soldier, former judge and, despite...
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News 24
| 11 months ago
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered a former Jewish officer in his unit in World War I spared from persecution or deportation, at least for a time, according to a German Jewish publication. Susanne Maus, editor of Jewish Voice from Germany, unearthed...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler , who presided over the killing of millions of Jews, took steps to assure the safety of one -- his former commanding officer. An Aug. 27, 1940, letter written by Heinrich Himmler , head of the Gestapo and SS, uncovered...
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USA Today
| 11 months ago
Hitler protected his Jewish WWI commander from Nazis Updated Adolf Hitler temporarily protected the Jewish commander of his World War I unit from Nazi persecution, according to a Berlin newspaper. Ernst Hess, a judge, was spared between 1940 and 1942,...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Adolf Hitler protected a Jewish veteran from extermination during the Holocaust because the World War I vet served in the same unit as the leader of Nazi Germany , according to a Nazi-era letter unearthed by an historian. Share This Story Ernst Hess,...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
A German Jewish newspaper reports that a Jewish World War I veteran apparently was spared deportation to a Nazi death camp due to an intervention by Adolf Hitler.
The quarterly Jewish Voice reports that a newly discovered letter appears...
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Jerusalem Post
| 11 months ago
Heinrich Himmler penned letter commanding that Hitler's Jewish former officer Ernst Hess be spared "as per Fuehrer's wishes."...Adolf Hitler personally intervened to protect a Jewish man who had been his commanding officer during World War One,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Adolf Hitler made a personal intervention to spare a Jew from the Holocaust, according to a letter unearthed in the files of the Gestapo. Hitler made the dramatic intervention to protect Ernst Hess, his old company commander from the trenches of the...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 11 months ago
But Ernst Hess owed his survival to the personal intervention of Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer ordered his SS thugs to leave the Jewish judge alone because Hess had been his commanding officer during the First World War. Hitler looked back on his time on...
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Mail Online UK
| 11 months ago
Hess's daughter told the newspaper how her father returned from get-togethers with old comrades of the List Regiment in the late Twenties and early Thirties. He would often relate to the surprise expressed by Hitler's former comrades when they heard...
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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 11 months ago
Lopez celebrated his 19th birthday with a burst of machine-gun fire on the day the United States and its allies restored freedom to Europe, held in the grip of Nazi Germany in World War II. "I was at a machine-gun nest outside the Palace of Justice...
