HITLER’S COMRADE

Evening Star, Issue 21624, 20 January 1934, Page 16

HITLER’S COMRADE

FARE FAID BACK TO CEMAKY j LONDON, January 3. As showing that Herr Hitler neyeD forgets his friends of the early days* he has entertained at his official resi. dence a war comrade, Ignaz Weston* kirchner, who fought in fifty actions by his side and was once gassed by tha! same bomb. This “ war buddy ” was _an unenw ployed carpenter in the United according to the Berlin correspondent! of the ‘ Manchester Guardian,’ and the Chancellor paid fares for him and ,hial wife and three children to return to! Germany. , ' They arrived triumphantly by a liner last week, and were met by reporters and photographers and eminent Nazis. Westenkirchner says' that _ Herr Hit* ler was able to raise the spirits of his comrades at* the front. ' He himself joined the Hitlerites in 1920, §»d, -be-< mg driven out of his Bavarian village! in consequence, went to America. He became unemployed,, and then) as he puts it, “ something marvellous hap. pened. My comrade had not forgotten me in my hour of need,”