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| "Guilt" Artist: Mark Nickels |
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 at age 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.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. History takes some cruel twists...
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.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1945960.ece
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9 comments:
If only abortion had been legal in Germany...
Hindsight notwithstanding, in saving a wounded man, he was true to his own moral code and duty. He was in no way responsible for the murder and mayhem that followed.
Proof: I agree. I just though this was an interesting historical tidbit, maybe something one would learn from a Paul Harvey broadcast...
Gene: Your comment presupposes that his parents would have chosen to abort him if they had the opportunity. Nothing in their history suggests they would have chosen such an option.
It is ironic that Hitler's Eugenic ideas that he got from American progressives drove him to abort many children, so good comment!
Interesting story.
Unfortunately "The Rest of This Story" didn't go so well.
You would think after an incident like that it would humble one. It seems he may have felt the need to compensate for his "Shortfalls"
He was only doing his duty, how could he possibly know that the man he was saving was going to be a butcher and murderer of millions?
I pray the Lord gave him the peace he was seeking.
That really was a large burden of guilt to carry around, but to be honest, Johan Jambor had nothing to be guilty of. He did not know that the ""Screamer" would become such a mad man.
Pearl S. Buck wrote an excellent short story about doctor's ethics and saving lives during wartime.
Thanks for the ti, AOW. I remember reading her in High School...
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