Jim Cain asks, Sunday, November 18, 2007, about a Jewish admiral whom Hitler ordered to be sparedPhoto: The dock at Nuremberg, wiith Grand Admiral Eri…
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Jim
Cainasks,
, about a Jewish admiral whom Hitler ordered to be spared
Photo:
The dock at Nuremberg, wiith Grand Admiral Erich
Raeder half concealed in center of the second row.
[Click for whole image.]
When
Hitler spared a legally-Jewish admiral
ONE more comment on the memoirs of Grand-Admiral Erich Raeder … it deals directly with a ‘pro-Jewish’ action by Adolf
Hitler himself
In the Appendix there is reprinted a letter from one Karl Kuhlenthal, Rear Admiral (ret.), in which he writes:
“I am half Jewish, and have a Jewish wife.
Consequently, in accordance with the Nurnberg laws, my two sons and I were treated as fullblooded
Jews….
“To free myself from this horrible situation, I asked
Grand Admiral Raeder to secure, from Adolf Hitler, an exemption for my family…
“In particular, Raeder obtained for me an exemption
SIGNED BY HITLER’S OWN HAND which protected my wife and me from further persecution. I not only continued to receive my pension, but our property, including our apartment, was insured to us.”
This letter raises a number of questions:
How many of these ‘Führer Exemptions
for Jews’ — personally signed by Hitler — are
recorded or known to have been issued, or
exist?
This letter is dated October 28, 1950,
Frankfurt, Main, Niedenau 54 — which is
entirely too late to be of much help to Adm.
Raeder, already imprisoned at Spandau.
Why wasn’t it prepared for evidence to help Adm.
Raeder at the Nurnberg trial (like the other letters of character that are reprinted in the memoirs)?
