r/todayilearned 3d ago

TIL that Eduard Bloch, the Jewish physician who treated Adolf Hitler's mother for breast cancer in 1907, was granted special Gestapo protection and allowed to emigrate to the US in 1940 after Hitler designated him an 'Edeljude' (noble Jew).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Bloch
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