Emil Maurice
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Emil Maurice was a German Nazi official and a founding member of the Schutzstaffel. He was Adolf Hitler's first personal chauffeur, and one of only a few people of mixed Jewish and ethnic German ances
Maurice wearing the Blood Order medal
Early photo of Hitler's bodyguard: left to right: Julius Schaub; Julius Schreck; Emil Maurice (crudely scratched out after Hitler sacked him over his relationship with Geli Raubal); Adolf Hitler; Hans Georg Maurer; Gerhard Schneider
From left to right; Hitler, Maurice, Kriebel, Hess and Weber in Landsberg Prison, 1924
Honorary Aryan
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Honorary Aryan was a semi-official category and expression used in Nazi Germany and its territories to justify certain individuals who, according to the Nuremberg Laws, were not recognized as being of
Emil Maurice
…1805–1896) was Jewish, and the more racially stringent SS required officers to prove Aryan ancestry back to 1750. Accordingly, he was given the status of Honorary Aryan by Hitler. A watchmaker by trade, Maurice was a close early associate of Adolf Hitler; their personal friendship dated back to 1919 when they were both…
Japanese women doing a revue during a visit by the Hitler Youth and Nazi officials
Wang Jingwei of the Japanese-puppet government in Nanking of China with German diplomats in 1941