Photos showing how a German fighter pilot painted a Jewish Star of David on his First World War plane just to annoy a racist Hermann Goering have come to light. He was one of the architects of the Holocaust in the Second World War, ordering a high-ranking Nazi official to organise the solution to the 'Jewish Question'. While Lt Auer's stunt might have been laughed off in 1917, it could have led to his arrest or even execution in the Second World War. 'At the time there was no anti-Jew issue in Germany, it was just Hermann Goering's personal opinion at the time that he clearly carried with him into the Second World War. But he didn't hold it against him as Auer served in the Luftwaffe in the Second World War.

Source: Daily Mail March 01, 2018 12:03 UTC