Chicago Hyde Park Jewish Mensch, Tailor & WWII Liberator Herman Cohn dead at 94

As a German-born Jew in the American Army in World War II Europe, Herman Cohn was a Holocaust survivor, liberator and avenger.

While guarding SS prisoners, he met an officer whose uniform showed he was part of the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler, personal bodyguards to the fuhrer. Mr. Cohn used his command of German — and the point of a gun — to tell the officer to grab a shovel and start digging latrines. The officer appeared baffled.

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