The priest who changed the course of history for the worse… by rescuing four-year-old Hitler from drowning in icy river
A four-year-old Adolf Hitler was saved from certain death after falling into an icy river while playing as a child, it emerged today.
The man who would become leader of the Nazi party in Germany and kill millions of innocent people was rescued by another boy who grew up to become a priest, according to a newly-discovered German newspaper archive.
The four-year-old future Fuhrer was living at the time in the Kapuzinerstrasse in Passau in Germany, just across the border from his native Austria.
