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London: An astonishing letter has revealed how Adolf Hitlers company commander in WWI was, despite his Jewish roots, spared from the genocide unleashed by the Nazis on the Fuhrers wishes.
The Fuhrer ordered his SS thugs to leave the Jewish judge Ernst Hess alone because Hess had been his commanding officer during the First World War, the Daily Mail reported.
Hitler looked back on his time on the Western Front with great pride and fondnes. So, while some six million Jews perished in the Holocaust set in motion by Hitler, Hess was allowed to live on the Fuhrers whim.
Hess daughter Ursula, 86, revealed the remarkable story after a newspaper unearthed the letter sent on the orders of Hitler insisting that Hess was not to be persecuted or deported. A file kept by the Dusseldorf Gestapo on him includes the letter from the head of the Gestapo and the SS, Heinrich Himmler, dated August 27, 1940, saying Hess must receive relief and protection as per the Fuhrers wishes.
At that time Himmler made a point of informing all relevant authorities and officials that the judge was not to be inopportuned in any way whatsoever.
Ernst Moritz Hess, born in 1890, had joined the 2nd Royal Bavarian Reserve Infantry as an officer at the beginning of the First World War, the same regiment that Austrian-born Hitler volunteered for. Both were deployed to the Flanders front in autumn 1914, serving in what was known as the List Regiment until 1918. In the summer of 1916, Hess had temporarily been Hitlers company commander.
Although baptised a protestant, his mother was Jewish and the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935, introduced by the Nazis, classified him as a full blooded Jew.
Hess was forced by the laws to quit his post as a judge in 1936. He had petitioned Hitler in June of 1936 asking for an exception to be made for him and his daughter under the race laws.
Hess moved his family to Bolzano, Italy in October 1937, but was forced to return in 1939. Hoping that his connections to Hitler would keep him safe, he moved his family to a remote Bavarian village in mid-1940.
A copy of Himmlers letter Himmler to the Gestapo in Dusseldorf was given to him. But in late June 1941, Hess was summoned to appear before the SS in Munich. When he submitted his letter of protection it was taken from him and he was told it had been revoked in 1941, and that he was now a Jew like any other. ANI
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The Fuhrer ordered his SS thugs to leave the Jewish judge Ernst Hess alone because Hess had been his commanding officer during the First World War, the Daily Mail reported.
Hitler looked back on his time on the Western Front with great pride and fondnes. So, while some six million Jews perished in the Holocaust set in motion by Hitler, Hess was allowed to live on the Fuhrers whim.
Hess daughter Ursula, 86, revealed the remarkable story after a newspaper unearthed the letter sent on the orders of Hitler insisting that Hess was not to be persecuted or deported. A file kept by the Dusseldorf Gestapo on him includes the letter from the head of the Gestapo and the SS, Heinrich Himmler, dated August 27, 1940, saying Hess must receive relief and protection as per the Fuhrers wishes.
At that time Himmler made a point of informing all relevant authorities and officials that the judge was not to be inopportuned in any way whatsoever.
Ernst Moritz Hess, born in 1890, had joined the 2nd Royal Bavarian Reserve Infantry as an officer at the beginning of the First World War, the same regiment that Austrian-born Hitler volunteered for. Both were deployed to the Flanders front in autumn 1914, serving in what was known as the List Regiment until 1918. In the summer of 1916, Hess had temporarily been Hitlers company commander.
Although baptised a protestant, his mother was Jewish and the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935, introduced by the Nazis, classified him as a full blooded Jew.
Hess was forced by the laws to quit his post as a judge in 1936. He had petitioned Hitler in June of 1936 asking for an exception to be made for him and his daughter under the race laws.
Hess moved his family to Bolzano, Italy in October 1937, but was forced to return in 1939. Hoping that his connections to Hitler would keep him safe, he moved his family to a remote Bavarian village in mid-1940.
A copy of Himmlers letter Himmler to the Gestapo in Dusseldorf was given to him. But in late June 1941, Hess was summoned to appear before the SS in Munich. When he submitted his letter of protection it was taken from him and he was told it had been revoked in 1941, and that he was now a Jew like any other. ANI
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