Saving Private Hitler

How would you like to be the medic who saved Hitler's life? What a burden for a man named Johan Jambor, who was a WW I medic and treated a wounded Private Hitler. He died aged 94 in 1985, but had told his secret to priest Franciszek Pawlar, who kept a note of their conversation.

Johan’s friend Blassius Hanczuch confirmed the priest’s account of how the medic saved Hitler’s life. He said:

In 1916 they had their hardest fight in the Battle of the Somme.

For several hours, Johan and his friends picked up injured soldiers. He remembers Hitler.

They called him the ‘Screamer’. He was very noisy. Hitler was screaming ‘help, help’.

His abdomen and legs were all in blood. Hitler was injured in the abdomen and lost one testicle. His first question to the doctor was: ‘Will I be able to have children?’.”

Blassius said that when the Nazis swept to power Johan began to suffer nightmares and blame himself for saving Hitler.

You can go read the entire account in The Sun, a British Newspaper. The article focuses on Der Fuhrer's testicular deficiency, but I found the account of the medic who saved a future genocidal madman to be much more interesting. Oh, the cruel twists of history...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1945960.ece