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The single Jew that Hitler wanted to save:
Astonishing letter reveals how Führer ordered Gestapo to leave his WW1 commander alone
- 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
Ernst Hess, Adolf Hitler’s company commander in WWI, who was, despite his Jewish roots, spared from the genocide unleashed by the Nazis
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.
Hitler looked back on his time on the Western Front with great pride and fondness so, while some six million Jews perished in the Holocaust set in motion by Hitler, Hess was allowed to live on the Fuhrer’s whim.
His remarkable story was told by his daughter Ursula, 86, 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 Fuhrer’s wishes’. Continue reading
‘Predator’ on the prowl: Multi-billion DARPA rival set up in Russia
A new multi-billion dollar agency will develop cutting-edge Russian weapons, after the Russian Duma overwhelmingly voted to establish the Future Research Fund (FPI).
The FPI’s budget has not been finalized, but media speculation has predicted that it could be given more than $100 billion between now and 2020, though the funding is expected to be ramped up in steps.
“After 20 years of stagnation it will be hard to catch up with the West’s weapons development the ordinary way,” Vice Premier Dmitry Rogozin told the deputies ahead of the vote.
“We need a radical organization ready to take risks… Continue reading
NATO launches war games in Mediterranean amid tension with Syria
NATO’s joint maritime group is flexing its muscle in the eastern Mediterranean Sea by conducting anti-terrorism drills as tensions between NATO member Turkey and its neighbor Syria escalate.
The Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) is determined “to give a clear message to terrorists in the region that NATO is on duty,” German Rear Admiral Thorsten Kahler told the Turkish daily Hurriyet.
“What we have to make sure is to tell the terrorists to be careful; we are here and providing security for NATO member states,” he said. Continue reading
WikiLeaks releases Syria Files, almost 2.5 mln emails to be published
The whistleblower website WikiLeaks has announced the release of almost 2.5 million emails derived from 680 Syria-related entities and domain names. They are said to be “embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s opponents.”
“It helps us not merely to criticize one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts. It is only through understanding this conflict that we can hope to resolve it,” the announcement quotes Julian Assange, who is currently in the Ecuador embassy in London, where he is awaiting a decision on his appeal for political asylum.
The website says the files “shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, but they also reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another.“ Continue reading
Nice view… but would you and your family pay £87 for a 30-second lift ride up the Shard to see it?
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The Shard is opened with a spectacular light and laser show that lit up the London night sky
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Tower is 1016ft high, with 11,000 glass panels covering the area of eight football pitches
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There are 44 lifts, including double-decker lifts and 306 flights of stairs
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Tickets to go up and see the view from 800ft above London will go on sale at 9am today
Europe’s tallest building, the Shard on London’s south bank, opened tonight with a spectacular light and laser show.
Londoners flocked to rooftops, balconies and public spaces as the tower, which rises to 1,016 feet above the city, was lit in blue, green, purple and gold and lasers probed out across a clear night sky in the capital.
Scroll down for the extraordinary time lapse video of The Shard’s construction and last night’s light and laser show
View from the air: The Shard, glowing gold rises above the London skyline. Twelve lasers and 30 searchlights lit up the night sky, to celebrate the external completion the tallest building in Europe Continue reading
