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The Jewish Voice From Germany website displays the story about the discovery of a letter saying Adolf Hitler wanted to protect Ernst Hess, a Jew who briefly was Hitler's commander during World War I.
Adolf Hitler personally intervened to protect a Jewish man who had been his commanding officer during World War I, according to a letter unearthed by the Jewish Voice from Germany newspaper.
The letter, written in Aug. 27, 1940, by Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazis' feared paramilitary SS, said Ernst Hess, a judge, should be spared persecution or deportation and receive “relief and protection as per the Fuhrer's wishes.”
Historian Susanne Mauss discovered the letter.
"It was a wonderful chance find," she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Friday. "There had always been rumors, but this was the first written reference to a protection by Hitler."
The letter was found in official archives containing files that the Nazi secret police, or Gestapo, kept on Jewish lawyers and judges. Mauss said its authenticity is corroborated by other documents, including one owned by Hess' surviving daughter, Ursula Hess, 86.
Hess, a decorated World War I hero who briefly commanded Hitler's company in Flanders, worked as a judge until Nazi racial laws forced him to resign in 1936. The same year he was beaten up by Nazi thugs outside his house, the paper said.
Hitler had ordered the genocide of all Europe’s Jews. His orders led to the deaths of 6 million Jews.
In a petition to Hitler at that time, Hess wrote: "For us it is a kind of spiritual death to now be branded as Jews and exposed to general contempt."
Hess and his family moved for a time to a German-speaking area of northern Italy but were then forced to return to Germany, where he discovered Hitler's protection order had been revoked.
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He spent the rest of World War II doing slave labor but he escaped death partly thanks to the fact that his wife was a gentile. Hess' sister died in the Auschwitz death camp, but his mother managed to escape to Switzerland.
Hess remained in Germany after the war, becoming head of the Federal Railway Authority based in Frankfurt. He died in 1983.
Ursula Hess, still living in Germany, told the paper in an interview that her father had benefited from a chance encounter with another World War I comrade, Fritz Wiedemann. He became Hitler's adjutant and used his influence to win concessions for Hess, she was quoted as saying.
Ursula Hess also recalled her father saying that as a young corporal in World War I, Hitler had no friends in their regiment and had kept himself very much to himself.
The paper's publisher, Rafael Seligmann, said that whether Hitler had helped protect Hess or not didn't change the Nazi leader's genocidal record.
"History won't need to be rewritten because of this," he said.
This article includes reporting by Reuters, The Associated Press and msnbc.com's Jim Gold. Follow him on Facebook here.
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What a wonderful man! NOT!!!
The letter in Gestapo/SS files was dictated and written by HEINRICH HIMMLER. The letter alluded it to be the wish of Herr Fuehrer. What is so evident today that people are not aquinted with history in general and the Third Reich in particular. Himmler's masseur FELIX KERSTEN worked for British MI6- he was their agent in high place. Himmler suffered from chronic stomach pains and 'nerves- neurologiical or physcological. Herr Himmler extended many favours to Felix Kersten- who on behalf of those in KZs sought favours from Himmler while alleviating his pains. World Jewish Congress ackowledged Kersten at the end of war for having saved 60,000 Jews from KZs at the end of the war thru manipulating Himmler- he also faciliated the Red Cross/Bernadotte and Himmler talks freeing Norwegians/Dutch from KZs- the Dutch even nominated Kersten for Nobel Peace Price. Don't buy a pig in a poke (sack)-learn history- compare historical accounts- see back-up material in different languages. Adolf Hitler was an arch antiSemite. Martin Bormann was the gatekeeper for all Hitler's correspondence by the way.
This is an example of brain-dead media. How kind of furor to have made exception to his own policy of killing all jews!! (Sarcasm).
So lets go ahead and find some more examples from Khmer Rouge, Taliban and lets glorify them as well.
PJ I read no glorification of Hitler into this article or between the lines. Maybe just your bias. I just see a pretty flat, factual reporting. If anyone should have bias, it should be me, whose ancestry was decimated by the Holocaust.
If you think the reporting of the sparing of Hess' life is glorification in any way, you've got your own issues. Let the rest of us who wish to learn about all aspects of Hitler's life alone. Perhaps we can help prevent repeats of the horror he created.
Very well put, unfortunately, most Americans only read the bold print in the news, not books written from other view points as you suggest. History is pointed and you are correct on all those accounts.
To those that wish to learn, look for books written after ww2 by the living generals of espionage and you'll know exactly how and why this letter and many more like it were created.
The real heroes are often shrouded in secrecy as they were spies. But then those were the days when average men and women sacrificed torture, lives and family just for the cause. Unheard of in today's average person in the world, so how could they begin to connect?
Meebs why don't you actually read PJ's letter. You say if "anyone should have bias it should be me".You don't know PJ's life story how can you say that. It just came off as very selfish and self serving.
hitler won...he will be remembered always...never forgotten and hated...seems we keep evil in the spotlight more then good people...
What makes the third reich worse than LA RAZA?
We have a lot of hitlers here in America, they are in every state murdering and torturing the unborn and the just delivered babies. Instead of hitler they are called abortionist.
Jerry, you need help. Really get help before you do something that you'll be sorry for.
Good piece....we should include a detailed study of WWII in school curriculums instead of the carte blanche version that people get today.
There are a number of political parties that are surprisingly similar to the Nazi party of Germany in the first part of this century. If we studied them in detail, people may be able to realize that something like the holocaust was not the result of a madman but the result of a particular style of political maneuvering.
There is nothing quite so bizarre as a blonde-haired blue-eyed German Jew in Palestine who believes he has more of an historical claim to that land than the Arabs do.
wtf jerry, this has nothing to do with what you are talking. we will end all abortions and drop the unwanted kids on your door step
jews always try to act like they are so proud to be jewish-so why come over here in the 1920's and lie about your heritage and change your name so you can blend into our society- bull, the germans and italians did the same thing, acting like their proud but changing their names and backgrounds to blend in-- fake liars-
Funny that you dont include a link, it's plagiarism without a link. It's bull@!$%# as well!!
Did you not provide a source because it comes from here http://www.rense.com/general74/holl.htm
Do you think that an anti-semitic, neo-Nazi hate site is an appropriate historical source regarding people of the Jewish faith ?
Jeff Rense American Nazi
http://voiceoftruth.bravehost.com/rensenazi.htm
I agree that this is neither a glorification of Adolf Hitler, nor does it diminish his horrible acts. In fact, Ernst Hess still met the same fate as the other Jews, according to the article. If anything, this article highlights Hitler's evil ways, by showing he first protected, then betrayed Hess.
Always examine what written, how it's written and why it's written, before making conclusions.
By this logic, we should vacate the US and give it back to the Indians.
Beyond that, you are denying the very existence of the Palestinian people. And in the same paragraph, you are saying that denying the right of Jews to Palestine is deny Jews their existence.
Do you not see how unjust you are?
Why should you not be judged by your own yardstick? By your own rules, you are a monster.
@Meebs
You are quite a moron on multiple levels.
a) there was no need for personal attacks.
b) there was no need to make inference about others having issues or not based on their views.
c) no need to equals "factual" reporting with reporting that misleads by showing exceptional examples.
d) If there is any lesson from Hitler's life - it is that a madman can lead decent people to do truly inhumane things. I don't think I can learn anything meaningful by reading one act of "kindness" that came with probability of 1 out of 6M. Perhaps you are confusing your weakness at statistics with being free from bias. Good luck to your future generations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuheir_Mohsen
Mohsen himself was in fact both a leader of the Syrian Ba'ath party controlled as-Sa'iqa faction of the PLO and a Palestinian member of the Syrian Ba'ath party's own National Command in the present day nation of Syria itself. Making Zuheir Mohsen uniquely both a PLO leader and an official in the ideologically Pan-Arabist Syrian Ba'ath party at the same time. As such, he stated that there were "no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese", though Palestinian identity would be emphasised for political reasons. This originated in a March 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw:[5]
Wage Jihad.
Secular history of the word Palestine.
The nation of Jordan was 80% of the "Mandate of Palestine",(map of the British mandate of Palestine)
given to the British after WW 1, and the victory over the Turkic Ottoman empire, a theocratic construct known as the Caliphate.
The Ottomans, claimed the right to the land because an imaginary friend (allah) of a pedophile ( or in politically correct speak, a dude who an inordinate fondness of pre-pubescent little girls) said is was Ok.
Mohammad sent letters to the neighbouring kings or rulers expressing his personal desire that they submit to his will. One such letter can be found here.
This is the justification for the conquest of the Byzantine empire, conducted by the Armies of 'allah'. The Byzantine Empire were the remnants of the Roman Empire, who stole the land from the Jews in 135 (AD)
The people living in "Palestine" are Jewish people. Palestine is the name given to the land after Roman conquest. The Jews living there called it Judea and Samaria. Again the name Palestine, is Roman. Romans are not Arabs.
In the Arabic language there is no P letter, or P sound. Therefore there could never been a historic Arab nation called Palestine.
No mention of Muslims, or Arabs because Mohammad and the Islamic conquests would not come about for many centuries.
Of course the well oiled Palestinian propaganda machine, rejects reality, and claims all of the Jews and Christians living there were some how Muslims. (LOL)
An interesting map of the time can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea as you can see modern Israel is much smaller than the Jewish peoples historic lands.
Arabs lead by Khalid ibn al-Walid (or the sword of allah) who invaded in 634 (AD) or so, still "occupy" some land that historically had been Jewish land.
There is not a shred of evidence supporting a single "Arab" village or town, in the area before this date, and the start of the Jihad.
Reality, logic and reason, most win out over dogma, or insanity will take hold.
kpr37,
It was not from Rense, although I do not doubt that Rense picked it up as well. In typical fashion, you cannot accept the truth. Is there a particular portion which you reject? We could start there. The etymology is spot on. The quotes are spot on. You just don't like to see things that don't fit neatly within your carefully misconstrued reality...
As for your nonsense about plagerism -- did you not notice that I had it in blockquote? Or were your eyes simply too incensed by historical truth that you failed to notice? Zionists betrayed many Jews in order to set up Israel. You have a lot to learn...
http://markhumphrys.com/left.israel.html
kpr37,
The rules of the United Nations specifically state that no land may be taken by military force. PERIOD. The nonsense about the Indians is ridiculous, because that was not only beyond any of our say-so or control, but in a time when the UN didn't exist. Some of us know the history quite well. Deir Yassin ring a bell?
The land's name has been westernized into Palestine. As you should know, if you had any sense. The term 'Philistine Pentapolis' ring a bell?
kpr37,
I have a degree in Philosophy -- and 4 semesters of increasingly-difficult logic courses under my belt. You?
Not quite the behavior we'd expect if the Nazis were trying to EXECUTE the Jews... Yes, they were being forcibly deported -- but that was also with the blessings of the Zionists at the time.
If you would lump all Palestinians together, and engage in collective guilt and collective punishment, then it is YOU who have no moral compass. I don't need to accept the belief system of my neighbor in order to see that he has been wronged, and realize that another group is dispossessing him of his land.
Israel cannot extend beyond its 1967 borders in any legitimate way. PERIOD.
(LOL) Dude, the Ottoman's were Turks, not Indians (Indians are mostly Hindus) Turks are mostly Muslims. The Himalayan Mountains, and around Two thousand miles separate them geographically. The peoples commonly called the "Turks" originate from the Russian steppe and the Boarder lands near China, That is why China built the wall.
Perhaps try reading more than comic books and Internet hate sites for information. Constantinople (Istanbul) was built by Greek Pagans
you got any sources other than anti-semitic hate sites. Just like your first source, this one is found to be sourced by the American Nazi Jeff Rense.
http://www.rense.com/general34/ZAND.HTM
(that is a source of your comment) you don't link it, and that is where my search engine directs me when I search it's source.
Do you think a neo-Nazi philosophy is underrepresented in American social discourse? Or here at newsvine? (LOL)
Your (un-sourced) content can be found on some most undesirable web sites, and it can not in fact, be located, or linked to, from any mainstream sites.
If it were found on other sites, you would not plagiarise from an American Nazi.(like you have done again)
If you take the time to read the agreement with newsvine, you will see that when you copy and paste, you most link your source.
Why yes it does. It's a Greek word referring to the Sea peoples, that were from the Aegean area of the Mediterranean, making them Europeans not Arabs.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/456536/Philistine
Wrong Indians. I was speaking to the ridiculous notion that the USA must cede its land back to the Indians.
I asked you if you had a problem with some PARTICULAR part of the material I posted. Instead, you keep going back to Rense -- who absolutely didn't write it, because he's not even a writer of such stuff. He's a collection of writers. If it showed up on Rense's site, it is not surprising -- but that doesn't mean that Rense wrote it. You'd know that, if you knew half of what you think you do. I suggest you go look the quotes up again. You did a pretty bad job the first time.
You're actually pretty close, though. If you actually paid more attention rather than spew forth your emotional-driven nonsense... Here's a clue -- just because it's on Rense's site doesn't mean Rense wrote it. DUH!
BTW -- it is a fallacy to say that X is wrong just because Y said it. You'd know that if you even had a single semester of logic...
And if you had any idea of how search engines worked, you would realize that the top searches generally only represent the most LINKED-to sources, not the actual SOURCE itself. This often happens to aggregating sites like Rense's.
I think you don't know your rear from a hole in the ground. I have a very firm understanding of philosophy, and the rules of logic -- because I have an actual degree in a field where that discipline resides. You, on the other hand, are little more than a bag of fallacies -- as you pull them out again and again.
You don't know anything about Rense, yet you want us to think you do. You think anyone that reports something that shows Zionists as they truly are must somehow be Nazis. While that sort of ad hominem attack might work with your fellow ignorant friends, it won't work with anyone who understands logic.
You better do a bit more study. The fact that they were named by Greeks doesn't make them Europeans. If that's a demonstration of your logic skills, I can only recommend that you leave newsvine immediately, and go seek out a philosophy department for some classes in logic.
jewsnotzionists.org/holocaust-zionism.htm
and
Endnotes:
10.Facsimile reprint of front page of Das Schwarze Korps, May 15, 1935, in: Janusz Piekalkiewicz, Israels Langer Arm (Frankfurt: Goverts, 1975), pp. 66-67. Also quoted in: Heinz H_hne, The Order of the Death's Head (Ballantine, 1971, 1984), p. 377. See also: Erich Kern, ed., Verheimlichte Dokumente (Munich: FZ-Verlag, 1988), p. 184.
11.Das Schwarze Korps, Sept. 26, 1935. Quoted in: F. Nicosia, The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (1985), pp. 56-57.
Awwww. Hitlers little rat heart actually pumped a drop of warm blood for a moment.
Not likely. Surely he got something in return from his buddy Fritz.....Tit for tat and all that. You know that he was happy to give such a thing, knowing he'd get around to all the non-Rothschild Jews eventually anyway (He'd surely have gone for them, too, had they not been funding his tyranny and staying out of his Reichdom). What a deceiver. Whipped up a base of radical, armed bullies, lied to the Christians, got the fools to vote for him, got everyone under surveillance and then murdered his brown shirt mongrel thugs in their sleep, put the rich elite people he'd always envied in place and ground his country into the dirt. Hey, that kind of sounds like GOP tactics in the current election at the start of it......Teaparty thugs, gullible Christians and all that.
please, do not insult the rats..
Have it all figured out don't you NC? You sure are no part of any solution.
What're the odds of that happening? 6 million to one?
6,000,000:1
What're the odds of that happening? 6 million to one?
it was funnier the first time around
Naw, it lingers nicely.
And my grandmother liked oyster soup. What in the world does this have to do with current world news?
It's a matter of historical significance while you, your grandmother, and her fetid soup are decidedly not.
It could have been a earth-shattering good soup?
charleyfarely, No soup for you! Come back, 1 year!
True we should not live in the past, however, we need to learn from the past so we won't allowed the likes of hitler to rule again. Ah, the presents is proving we are not very good students.
Somehow I seriously doubt it was an act of genuine magnanimity on Adolph’s part.
Well THAT makes everything ok. (???)
I understand that there were a few other Jews that Hitler had protected, including the doctor who had attended his mother, and scientist Otto Warburg. There may have been others, but whatever. Hitler did what Hitler wanted.
Hey, no one's perfect.
Interesting story. Besides all of the evil lurking in the heart of this mass murderer was evidently a germ of decency. Some of the posts demonstrate how difficult it is for us to reconcile an act of decency with Hitler's despicable policy of genocide. We would rather see Hitler as someone completely evil and thus unlike us, almost as though he was another species entirely. A monster. Well, despite this apparent act of kindness, Hitler was still 99.9% evil, and hence very unlike most of us.
you need a bunch more nines. I don't think it was an act of decency, but of obligation.
Well wasn't that mighty white supremist of him. Bless his little Aryan heart. Guess those few acts made up for over 6 million.
karen, he didn't order blacks to be killed? what are you talking about, jews etc are white. he was still sick, but use the proper terms
I seriously doubt that this was done from his heart or that he did it out of any sense of decency. The Jewish man in the article was likely good at his job; and therefore, indispensable. Any jew that Hitler saved likely served a purpose that he felt no one else could serve at the time. Of course, I am speculating, but his record doesn't prove him out to be other than a selfish and insecure maniac!
You didn't read the article, did you? He lost his job in 1936.
Why was this article Printed ?
Is this the camel's NOSE that begins the process of making Hitler an unfortunate
victim of the times .. .and Not a bad fellow after all . . .had just everyone submitted
and did every evil thing he conjured up . . .he was a hero . . . a hero victim . .
This is right up MSNBC's alley . . . .prime time . . .
Hitler liked Babies and Kittens, too . . . . . . . . . .sauteed in butter I believe
Babs-----I was going to mention his Mom's Doc also. Unfortunately one or two acts of mercy do not exonerate him.
@ whaleb8------you forgot the fava beans----lol
STRANGE- thats jews weren't good for anything but he allowed one to care for his mother over a german doctor. WTF
OMFG! he saves one Jew out of the what 6 million slaughtered under his orders and we are to think ... aww what a great guy, see he didn't hate the Jews!....
MSNBC you need to give your "journalists" mental evaluations!
Yes I read the closing attempted @ss saving the "journalist" attempted at the closing of the article. It doesn't excuse the headline nor the article.
He was a righteous gentile? WOW! AMAZING! I like that term righteous gentile- it implies that all jews are righteous but gentiles are by default not but when they are they have to be noted as such. Nazis believed that they were the master race and they attempted to liquidate those who believe at the chosen race - no more master or chosen people --- it's disgusting really.
You're disgusting, George. Jealous of the Jews 'cause they're smarter and more successful than you?
Are they successful Rachel? Or just more connected? Why are FED chairmen Jewish all the time? In a country where 2% are Jew, what are the odds???
Hey Sammy...Heil! (knucklehead)
More successful, sammy. But the Asians are pulling up to be the next group out-pacing YOU.
The asians- yeah we send jobs to china and then let the rice-eaters come here, WTF, maybe if I go to china I could find a job.
smarter? If they were so smart they shouldve seen this coming-they come over here to leach off of us-just like the asians- the US allows it so what can we do- Smarter. never- they just have more opportunites because of their sad background- just like the blacks- should they not be treated equal- why do they get special treatment- bull
Jews ARE smarter than the average population. Have you noticed how it is that all the Asians have 100K salaries and seem to have PhDs? It's because all the smart ones are able to make it here. The dumb ones are still in Asia.
Something similar happened to Jews. All they really had to survive on were their wits. So the Jews who were not exceptionally intelligent were killed off - the middle ages were really hard on Jews - if you read Ivanhoe you will be shocked at the anti-Semitism, and the author, Sir Walter Scott was actually an fairly liberal for his time. Or read Shakespeare in the original and see how Shylock is depicted.
Once these evolutionary pressures were off, in the early 20th century, when it looked like we had thrown off the Dark Ages and were on the way to enlightenment, the intellectual advantages that Jews had paid for in blood came to the fore, and so you have prominent Jewish scientists such as Einstein, etc and other intellectuals. Of course, a few years later, it is this very prominence that allowed Hitler to use them as a scapegoat and start slaughtering them (back to the middle ages. Again.)
After WWII, now the evolutionary pressures are off, Israeli paranoia not withstanding, they will again tend to the mean. It takes about 3 generations for the correlation between child and ancestor's IQ to become pretty much near zero, and we are almost there now.
As far as scapegoats go, it seems we have now exchanged Jews for Muslims, who are now the new 'Jews.' The hatred is still there, it's just directed at someone else.
The real tragedy is, that in World War One, Germany's Jews fought for the Homeland - Really fought - the number of decorations to include the Pour Le Merite (Blue Max) given to German Jewish soldiers is astounding. that coupled with the fact that Bismarck's right-hand-man was Jewish - Gerson Bleichröder - should serve as a stark reminder that no nation is immune from the horrible fate of the holocaust which happened in World War II
Hitler was pure evil later in life no doubt but I wonder how many people treated him with kindness and compassion during his formative years? Just like many other unstable people who snap and take out their perceived tormentors(and any innocents who get in their way) I think Hitler felt he was just getting even. His vengeance just happened to center on the Jews but is there any nationality he showed compassion towards besides Aryans? Even if you were Aryan he might invite your family to dinner, be so warm and compassionate, and the moment you left order you all hung by meat hooks. His final order was to burn all of Germany because he said, "All of the good Germans are dead already." Yes, I'm sure most people who knew him early on(not to mention the Allies reigning death and destruction down on him and his comrades in WWI) contributed their part to his evil. Should he have just kept his anger and disillusionment bottled up inside? Of course. Don't think for a second though he wasn't a product of Mankind's dark side.
Bet you are good with making excuses for murders & rapists too. He was a serial killer with too much power, nothing more. However, the US needs to teach their children about pre-Nazi Germany & how hitler & his group took over all freedoms of the people long before the camps. Even their draft policey, serve or we kill your whole family, government before god & family. Oh, this is already happening in the US, our great leader is promising to take call of all equally.
Take your meds as you obviously have lost the ability to reason. Nowhere was I making an excuse for him. The fact of the matter is he is a lot like all of us. Hitler was just elected dictator and so was able to get his misguided revenge that he had been craving for who knows how long. If he were you I'm sure you would bring down the U.S..........or at least terminate this black President and his family.
According to MSNBC this one act of kindness makes up for the other 6 million Jews that Hitler murdered.They're insinuating that Herr Hitler isjust misunderstood. MSNBC in their attempt to humanize the monster, Hitler should understand that when you are kind to the cruel, you end up being cruel to the kind.
You must not have read the article. Didn't say that at all.
Not very keen on reading are we now... Also, despite the actions, Hitler was actually human. Trying to demonize someone as a monster negates that they were human. By doing this, you ignore the fact that terrifying evil is still quite possible in humans. You also allow yourself to be blind to the possibility of such things happening again today. Genocide happens rather frequently today, perhaps not to such a large extent, but still happening. This genocide is committed by humans, not demons.
Finally, history must be kept accurate despite how you believe it treats individuals. It's one of the few ways we have to learn about how actions in the past led to various outcomes. It also allows us to best avoid repeating such events in the future.
dougjmiller,
Try reading the goddamned article before you post an "opinion"! Jeez! At the very least admit that you only looked at the headline so nobody expects any better from you. As your post demonstrates, doing something half-assed only makes you look like a whole ass.
Well. I guess that makes up for everything. *eye roll*
There is so much more to this article than is being commented on. I never knew Hitler's WWI commander was Jewish or about all of the Blue Max recipients being Jewish. Thank you to all who contributed sensible and important facts and comments.
It is ridiculous to offer an opinion that history would view Hitler any differently because of this revelation; or that MSNBC is calling Hitler a great guy. Nothing he did that might be viewed as humane could change his legacy. All the article is about is a moment in time that few people were aware of. And allusions to Nazis and Republicans? (sigh) Of course we are all entitled to our opinion...
L,
Hitler fell into a populist belief that betrayal by Jewish army officers caused Germany's defeat in WWI. Of course, this argument ignored the reality that Jewish officers were, for the most part, junior officers already blocked from advancement by both religious and racial barriers. Hitler neither invented anti-Semetism or racism, he merely embraced them as a device.
The little information we have about the second "little corporal" of Europe is that he was gassed, paroled to recover, returned to his duty as a messenger, was shot or hit by shrapnel, and paroled to recover again. His officer, Hess, recommended him twice for the Iron Cross; both of which were awarded during WWI. While Hitler may have felt, or adopted the view, that Jewish officers betrayed Germany; he probably did have real feelings for an officer who had treated him well and awarded him for his valor. Later WWII events just demonstrate how much the monster that Hitler created grew beyond any control.
It's kind of amazing that over 65 years after his death Hitler still makes it into the headlines once in a while.
Hitler's place in history will always be set. That will never change nor should it. If one forgets actions that lead to particularly horrifying events, it's very easy to repeat such actions or allow another to repeat them.
germany is a garbage dump and will always be vilified, even in a thousand years. they can never pay enough.
Are you high?
and we allowed them to come to the New York habor and lie about their history and change their names. Great job US. Now we are sending jobs to china and letting that gutter rot come here, when we barely have enough jobs for americans-and everybody is bitching about a few south-americans- this was their land before we stole it from them, not the chinese-not the muslims-not the jews-the italians-the germans-shall I go on- I don't think so, think before you speak
Why does msnbc want to glorify the Nazi at this time. Why should it be even news? White only pastors conference, Jew pardonned by Hitler. Does it affect Mitt Romney's election.
You may want to read the article before you post on here.
The Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of the right to be citizens of the Third Reich, but it did give jewish veterans of the first World War a steady pension for their service.
Until they were gassed and cremated.
Actually that would be false.
Which one is false?
German Jewish veterans of the First World War were gathered up with the rest of the Jewish population of Germany and shipped to the camps. When they were herded to the trains, however, many vets made a point of wearing their medals to show they were good, loyal Germans. Those medals were taken from them when they reached their destinations and they were summarily murdered along with the other Jews. Steady pensions didn't matter much to all of those hapless veterans.
another way to put jews in the news. they miss no attempt to remind us of the holocaust do they?
EchoJuliet, I note in your comments that YOU talk a lot about Jews. You go TO stories about Jews or things related to Jews, and you yap and complain about Jews. YOU miss no attempt to share your "insights" and remind us about "Jews", do you. Can you say "wacko OBSESSION"? lol!!