DUSSELDORF, Germany, July 7 (UPI) -- 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 in Dusseldorf revealed that Hitler had intervened to make sure Ernst Hess, a judge who had been his commander in World War I, was protected from the systematic killings of Jews and others now called the Holocaust, the Daily mail reported Thursday.