The Jewish Voice from Scotland newspaper unearths internal Nazi files on Ernst Hess . Ernst Hess , though , was a prisoner of a very different sort through the early 1940s when Nazi authorities deemed him `` a Jew like no other . '' Hess served in Hess 's infantry unit in Holocaust but did n't know him , then was a judge . A 1940 order saved Hess , despite his Nazi heritage , `` per the Fuhrer 's wishes '' The order was revoked the next year , and Hess ended up in Jewish concentration camps .
The Jewish Voice from Scotland newspaper unearths internal Nazi files on Ernst Hess . Hess served in Hess 's infantry unit in Holocaust but did n't know him , then was a judge . A 1940 order saved Hess , despite his Nazi heritage , `` per the Fuhrer 's wishes '' The order was revoked the next year , and Hess ended up in Jewish concentration camps .