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The man with the miraculous hands

by Joseph Kessel · 1961

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The book tells the story of Dr Felix Kersten, a masseur who treated Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's Gestapo chief for his stomach ailments which no other doctor could cure and succeeded in persuading Himmler to spare the lives of thousands of Jews and others interned in Nazi prisons and concentration camps. An incredible true story.

World War, 1939-1945