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

The Single Jew That Hitler Wanted To Save: Astonishing Letter Reveals How Führer Ordered Gestapo To Leave His WW1 Commander Alone -- Daily Mail

* 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 battled to stay alive long enough to be freed from the Nazi death camps.

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.

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