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In the early 1930s, Hans Pfeiffer went to his barn one morning and saw that his prize ox was very sick, unable to rise from its bed of straw. He immediately called an Aryan veterinarian, who informed him that he saw no hope for the ox. Although Pfeiffer was a Nazi sympathizer, he couldn’t afford to lose his prize ox and so, in desperation, he secretly called Fleishman, the Jewish veterinarian. Fleishman examined the animal, gave it medication and whispered in its ear. The ox immediately jumped to its feet. The Nazi farmer was utterly astonished. “What did you whisper to the ox?” he asked. “What did you say to make it leap like that?” The vet responded: “I whispered the name Hitler in its ear, knowing that there wasn’t an ox in all of Germany that wouldn’t leap to its feet at its mere mention.”

05/07/2020