BERLIN (Reuters) – Adolf Hitler personally intervened to protect a Jewish man who had been his commanding officer during World War One, according to a letter unearthed by the Jewish Voice from Germany newspaper. The letter, composed in August 1940 by Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazis’ feared paramilitary SS, said Ernst Hess, a judge, should be spared persecution or deportation “as per the Fuehrer’s wishes”. Hess, a decorated World War One hero who briefly commanded Hitler’s company in Flanders, …
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