Hitler’s Jewish Doctor: The Untold Story of Eduard Bloch
Beyond the Series: Rare Gems of History
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14m
When Austria fell to Nazi Germany in March 1938, terror spread among its Jewish citizens. But one man, Dr. Eduard Bloch — the family physician who had once cared for Hitler’s dying mother — was declared under “special protection.”
Personally shielded by the Führer and untouched by Gestapo persecution, Bloch became a tragic paradox of history: a Jewish doctor saved by the architect of the Holocaust.
This documentary reveals their unlikely bond and how it endured through one of history’s darkest chapters.
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