Adolf Hitler was responsible for sixty million deaths worldwide as a result of World War ll and his own killings. "Der Fuhrer" murdered millions of innocent Jews in the Holocaust - and millions of others, too. In an encounter towards the end of WWI, Hitler was supposedly at the mercy of which British soldier, who let him go?

Correct answer: A. Henry Tandey

  • A. Henry Tandey
  • B. Richard Milton
  • C. Thomas Seems
  • D. Derrick Newton

Explanation

Henry Tandey is identified in a disputed account as the British soldier who spared Hitler during World War I at the Battle of Marcoing in 1918. The story is widely treated as an unverified or possibly apocryphal anecdote, but Tandey is the intended answer.

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