9 Freakiest Miracles & Coincidences that Helped Hitler’s Rise to Power

Bizarre miracles point towards Hitler’s supernatural protection.

What if guardian angels or devils were real? What if you could get out of trouble before you went through it?

After scanning through this article, one will enlist Adolph Hitler as one of the persons who enjoyed supernatural protection.

Several incidents unrolled throughout his life where it seemed, as if, he had been heavenly protected — as if, forces were working to keep Fuhrer of Nazi alive. Or perhaps hellish forces such as the Devil?

If we pick one of the incidents, then it can be termed as a matter of luck but seeing all those incidents together forms a frightening pattern, forcing one to think that an otherworldly force did exist to look out for the dictator. Let’s dig into such freaky coincidences.

1. Getting rescued by a future priest

It is hard to visualize Hitler as a kid. But the truth is — he indeed was. During his childhood, Hitler met with an accident in the winters of 1895, perhaps the first time when he felt a supernatural aid.

The accident was life-taking. During the game of tag, Hitler fell into the freezing water near the shores of Fox Inn River in Passau, Germany.

Other kids with whom a five-year-old Hitler was playing tag saw him struggling in the cold current. Hitler tried to stay afloat in the fast river, which threatened to freeze him.

But before he could either drown or freeze, his parent’s landlord’s son, about the same age as that of Hitler, dove into the river for his help. Pulling Hitler off the shore, young Johan saved his life.

Interestingly, when the boy grew up, he became a priest. In other words, a future priest ensured a future Nazi leader’s rise to authority.

2. Getting saved by a strange voice in WWI

As a dispatch runner for the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, Hitler sometimes had to face enemy fire with shells, grenades, and guns. By seldom earning a wound, he made himself a reputation of a preachy prudish soldier.

Destiny’s real help came to Hitler during his service in World War I. Not only Hitler himself got convinced about special otherworldly protection but others present around him too.

As a young soldier, he faced a death situation which turned into surprising survival. Hitler reported an incident where a mysterious voice commanded him to leave a particular dugout that was crowded during an enemy barrage.

Following the voice, Corporal Hitler left, and moments later, the same dugout got hit by a shell. Every person inside that dugout was killed.

The miracle was similar to such an incident, another event occurred on October 7, 1916, when a shell blast killed several German soldiers. Yet Hitler escaped again.

3. Getting spared by a British sniper

One of the incidents which Hitler commemorated was his fluke with a British soldier on September 28, 1918, shortly before World War I’s end.

Private Henry Tandey, on the very day, shot several German soldiers outside the French village of Marcoing. As a result of his shooting, he wounded several German soldiers running out from the cover; one such soldier was Adolf Hitler.

Wounded, Hitler tried to flee from the assault. Tandey inched closer to Hitler, close enough to make eye contact. Instead of shooting him to death, Tandey spared Hitler’s life just because he was wounded. Nodding his head for thanks, Hitler crawled to a safe space.

Years dissolved after that incident, and World War II broke out. During that time, Tandey learned an awful fact — it was Adolf Hitler whom he let go that evening.

Interestingly, Hitler had known Tandey and his gallant reputation all along. In fact, Hitler respected him to the degree that upon seeing Tandey receiving Victoria Cross (Britain’s highest military honor) in the newspaper, Hitler cut Tandey’s photo out of it, only to save it for years to come almost 20 years.

When Hitler became Germany’s chancellor, he got a copy of Italian artist Fortunino Matania’s painting which depicted the scene of Tandey carrying a wounded friend to a safe place. After obtaining the copy, Hitler showcased it in his office.

In 1938, Years after, when the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met Hitler for stopping a war between Britain and Nazi Germany, he noticed Tandey’s painting in his office which forced him to question Hitler. Upon which Hitler declared his belief in an otherworldly force that protected him in the hour of need.

4. Surviving a lethal gas attack

Another time when Hitler escaped death was shortly after getting spared from Tandey. When Hitler served the German army in Ypres Salient in Belgium, he got exposed to mustard gas, launched in a shell from British lines.

The deadly gas, which could easily take Hitler’s life, only left him temporarily blind, no other damage done.

As a result of his temporary blindness, he rested in a military hospital in Pomerania for a while, establishing a heroic image.

Interestingly, he used his war hero image as propaganda but years after his death, the truth about his blindness surfaced — it was due to his mental illness rather than the side effect of mustard gas.

The whole narrative concluded how that deadly mustard gas didn’t even cause him to get temporarily blind.

5. Getting rescued from an angry mob

Germany’s defeat in the great war left everyone agitated. Hitler himself spewed fiery right-wing comments at every opportunity he got.

His loud mouth resulted in him almost getting killed when in 1919, at a barracks gymnasium in Munich, a room full of 200 German soldiers turned into a mob. The soldiers attacked Hitler.

An Irish duty officer Michael Keogh was called in who witnessed Hitler viciously getting kicked and punched. Michael Keogh ordered a firing volley above the head of the mob, resulting in mob dispersal. Through an angry mob, Hitler saw his death nearing, left the scene very much alive, continuing to believe destiny was on his side.

6. Getting saved by a woman’s prep talk

After World war 1, Hitler climbed his way to the leadership of the National Socialist (NAZI )Party and staged a first coup d’etat against the Weimar Republic government on November 8–9, 1923.

The infamous Beer Hall Putsch failed. Hitlers and his followers were to be made fugitives; thus, they planned to flee Austria for refuge. Upon experiencing a malfunctioning car, Hitler had to take shelter at the house of a friend named Helen.

The forces managed to drill down Hitler’s location any way upon which he tried to attempt his first suicide. Witnessing Hitler’s condition, Helen gave him a prep talk, boosting his self-confidence to the extent that he, hoping positive, surrendered to police.

It would not be wrong to state how an American thwarted Hitler’s First Suicide Attempt — she came as a guardian angel in his life.

7. Experiencing a miraculous trial that turned him into a hero for many Germans

Arrested and charged with treason against Germany after the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler would have to stand trial for his life since the charge carried the death penalty.

But luck rewrote his destiny. The string of coincidence aided Hitler once again. Interestingly, between his attempted coup in Nov 1923 and trial fed 1924, Weimar judicial policy altered radically.

The country, instead of having an old trial by jury system, shifted to trial by judge. A sudden radical change in judicial policy gave Hitler a chance to argue his case in front of a panel of judges.

What interesting followed was the judge’s sympathy. Despite being pro-fascist, one judge, Georg Neithardt allowed Hitler to give speeches of his plans for future Germany.

Further, the press coverage of the trial made him a national sensation. Instead of a death sentence, the panel of judges gave him five years imprisonment, out of which he served only nine. From a criminal, he turned into a hero to disillusioned Germans. That’s what we call luck.

8. Narrowly escaping death in a car accident

In the early 1930s, Hitler became a popular right-wing leader, carrying heavy political campaigning to win the title of Germany’s ruler. A car accident of March 13 nearly ended Hitler’s dream, but just closely.

Major General Otto Wagener, Hitler’s economic advisor, reported how a tractor truck almost collided with Hitler’s Mercedes. If the driver had not managed to put brakes in a split second, then Hitler would have been killed.

9. Experiencing nature’s interference against assassination plan

Another time when supernatural forces came to Hitler’s aid was on November 8, 1939, early in World War II. It was at the Nazi Party’s annual meeting at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich to celebrate the Beer Hall Putsch.

Security was tight, but despite that, unknown to all, a bomb was planted in a hollowed-out pillar behind the speaker’s rostrum, where Hitler was soon scheduled to address the party members.

It was the work of Johann Georg Elser, a leftist assassin, who spent months secretly hollowing the column and ensuring the bomb went off precisely at 9 20 pm.

Otherworldly forces interfered. The weather destroyed Elser’s plan. Due to heavy fog, Hitler canceled his flight back to Belin and booked a train instead..

Change of plans meant Hitler had to catch the train early after the address, so he began the speech 30 minutes early, leaving the premise sharp at 9(07. Hitler left, but the bomb did blast, killing eight people and leaving 60 injured.

All that while, Hitler had already sat on the train. Elder was caught who confessed the entire planning. Even the 1944 the Valkyrie plot failed because of luck. The Valkyrie plot failed because a second bomb that could have killed Hitler was never used. Instead, only one bomb went off and Hitler survived.

Hitler’s luck ran out in April 1945 when the Red Army was approaching his Fuhrer bunker in Berlin. Fearing capture by Stalin’s army, Hitler shot himself.

Combining all these narratives together forces one to think about how Hitler’s destiny was marked with flukes, charm, luck, or whatever one calls it. He indeed had an extraordinary destiny.

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References:

https://thewire.in/history/some-of-historys-bizarre-and-ironic-coincidences

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler/Rise-to-power