WEBVTT 00:00:00.330 --> 00:00:02.649 He escaped the proximity of the prison and quickly 00:00:02.649 --> 00:00:04.549 decided to attempt to head north towards Italy 00:00:04.549 --> 00:00:06.790 instead of towards the seemingly illogical destination 00:00:06.790 --> 00:00:09.490 of Greece. He picked his direction and started 00:00:09.490 --> 00:00:12.429 shuffling away in his concrete shoes. He went 00:00:12.429 --> 00:00:15.070 in the wrong direction. He saw a sign that clearly 00:00:15.070 --> 00:00:17.170 stated how far it was to Greece and then another 00:00:17.170 --> 00:00:19.250 that had a smaller number next to it after he 00:00:19.250 --> 00:00:21.789 had traveled quite a distance. He tried not to 00:00:21.789 --> 00:00:24.329 cry with an I've gone the wrong way. He had to 00:00:24.329 --> 00:00:27.089 double back after getting his bearings. He was 00:00:27.089 --> 00:00:28.829 confronted in the days immediately after his 00:00:28.829 --> 00:00:31.289 escape by two uniformed men with a gun who told 00:00:31.289 --> 00:00:33.689 him to stop so they could check him. Prisoners 00:00:33.689 --> 00:00:35.689 of war and other inmates in the former Yugoslavia 00:00:35.689 --> 00:00:37.729 were often let loose in their prison gear, so 00:00:37.729 --> 00:00:39.689 people could hunt them down and apprehend them 00:00:39.689 --> 00:00:41.810 for something to do, with prizes awarded each 00:00:41.810 --> 00:00:44.689 time one got caught. Usually provided the prisoner 00:00:44.689 --> 00:00:47.429 was weak and feeble. The chasers used to think 00:00:47.429 --> 00:00:49.170 it was entertaining to watch them try to take 00:00:49.170 --> 00:00:51.329 the opportunity to get away for good, as if it 00:00:51.329 --> 00:00:54.070 were weird fun. They assumed he was another one 00:00:54.070 --> 00:00:57.020 released for a fun hunt. They asked him to stop. 00:00:57.659 --> 00:00:59.899 Kaiser Adolf refused to stop and kept going, 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:02.579 so they threatened to shoot him. He told them 00:01:02.579 --> 00:01:05.299 he was not stopping and kept moving. They shot 00:01:05.299 --> 00:01:07.280 him twice, once through the buttock, and one 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.079 bullet that lodged in his back. When they approached 00:01:10.079 --> 00:01:12.159 him, they thought he was going to fall into their 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:13.959 arms between their shoulders to be carried away 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:16.659 back to wherever he was released from. When they 00:01:16.659 --> 00:01:18.700 moved to grab him, he suddenly grabbed them by 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:20.519 the side of the heads by the hair, and smashed 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:22.239 their heads together with a solid cracking noise, 00:01:22.500 --> 00:01:25.159 knocking them both unconscious. One was left 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:27.500 bleeding from the side of the head. He then took 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:29.180 a deep wounded breath, raised his head in the 00:01:29.180 --> 00:01:31.060 air, and yelled freedom in German in a long, 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:34.620 drawn -out, loud, screaming wounded moan. Which 00:01:34.620 --> 00:01:36.280 he later said was the most embarrassing thing 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.400 he ever did in his life. After finally busting 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:41.560 the leg shackle open, where he accidentally caused 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:43.980 himself a deep stab wound, and managing to remove 00:01:43.980 --> 00:01:46.439 the one around his arm, he shuffled around, walked, 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:48.780 and traveled over 1 ,000 kilometers to northern 00:01:48.780 --> 00:01:51.939 Italy, through loony Yugoslavia. The main issue 00:01:51.939 --> 00:01:54.439 on the way was nighttime spotlights used to illuminate 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:57.359 things. Operated by night shift workers, they 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:59.299 were waved around like lighthouse batman beams, 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:02.239 up and down the streets in set patterns. The 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:04.159 operators would follow the set patterns, and 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:06.099 when finished with a run, would return them all 00:02:06.099 --> 00:02:08.099 to the starting point, and point them at it. 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:11.360 Sometimes a Yugoslavian flag on a flagpole, lit 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:13.919 from every direction they were using them. Trying 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:16.000 to time the final beaming at the flag so that 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:17.919 all spotlights returned to the flag at once, 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:20.639 as if it was ballet or something. He studied 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:22.659 them quietly, noted the pattern and moved to 00:02:22.659 --> 00:02:25.039 stay out of the beams. It was bizarrely easy 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:27.800 given the routine. After the encounter that resulted 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:30.080 in his bullet wounds, he evaded all snipers, 00:02:30.139 --> 00:02:33.199 checkpoints, police, military, spotlights, barbed 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:37.199 wire, alarm sirens, guards, etc. He entered what 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:39.280 is now Slovenia, and then walked across the Italian 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.080 border without being intercepted. He was exhausted 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:44.919 and had lost a lot of blood. His feet had blistered 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:47.099 inside his concrete shoes, but he could not find 00:02:47.099 --> 00:02:49.800 a way to get them off. He ended up seeing a dim 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:52.199 light like buildings in the distance. It was 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:54.199 a country convent like a basic castle outside 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:56.860 a very small town in northeastern Italy run by 00:02:56.860 --> 00:02:59.599 minor organized crime. He got their attention. 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.400 The door was opened by a female looking like 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:04.800 a mother superior of some type with a candle. 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.139 She looked like a cross between the paintings 00:03:07.139 --> 00:03:10.319 Weeping Woman and Mona Lisa. He told her he was 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:12.680 wounded and could he get some help. She gave 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:14.699 him a seat inside the outer door and went to 00:03:14.699 --> 00:03:17.379 get the priest. He was told to fuck off by a 00:03:17.379 --> 00:03:19.639 man who looked like a priest as he was too smelly. 00:03:20.340 --> 00:03:22.539 The priest closed the inner door and leant up 00:03:22.539 --> 00:03:26.819 against saying oh, no. Oh, no. The nun said what? 00:03:27.379 --> 00:03:29.680 He said that's Adolf Hitler, what is he doing 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:34.259 here? Oh, no. She said who? Adolf banged on the 00:03:34.259 --> 00:03:36.199 door asking to be let in as he was wounded and 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:38.819 needed help. He had a protracted argument through 00:03:38.819 --> 00:03:40.280 the door where he said he would have to walk 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:42.300 somewhere else and asked to be let in saying 00:03:42.300 --> 00:03:44.939 he was wounded. He ended up banging on the door 00:03:44.939 --> 00:03:46.960 repeatedly, bashing it with the side of his fist, 00:03:47.060 --> 00:03:49.020 letting the pounding do the talking, whilst the 00:03:49.020 --> 00:03:50.979 priest moaned about who it was at the door and 00:03:50.979 --> 00:03:53.099 how he got there, telling him to fuck off repeatedly. 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:56.379 Kaiser Adolf yelled that he had blisters on his 00:03:56.379 --> 00:03:58.479 feet and had been shot in the back and buttocks 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:01.180 and was losing blood. Then returned to banging 00:04:01.180 --> 00:04:03.979 on the door forcefully saying let me in. They 00:04:03.979 --> 00:04:05.800 agreed to let him in and sit on a block of stone 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.650 just inside the main door. He told them he was 00:04:08.650 --> 00:04:10.610 Kaiser Adolf Hitler the Hohenzollern of Germany, 00:04:10.789 --> 00:04:12.789 he'd been a prisoner, he didn't know how many 00:04:12.789 --> 00:04:15.189 years exactly, in Yugoslavia, and could they 00:04:15.189 --> 00:04:17.089 please help him and get the authorities so he 00:04:17.089 --> 00:04:19.990 could speak to them. The nun, possibly the mother 00:04:19.990 --> 00:04:22.290 superior, decided to get the convent camera out 00:04:22.290 --> 00:04:24.250 after the priest had disappeared further into 00:04:24.250 --> 00:04:26.810 the building. Nearly every convent in Italy had 00:04:26.810 --> 00:04:29.009 one, and the residents of each one liked to practice 00:04:29.009 --> 00:04:31.870 every now and then. The excuse for the cameras 00:04:31.870 --> 00:04:34.449 was just in case a statue started crying or something, 00:04:34.550 --> 00:04:37.420 as a joke. When she returned with the camera, 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:39.740 she gave him a piece of slightly gooey and pleasantly 00:04:39.740 --> 00:04:41.579 smelling cheese, with something with it that 00:04:41.579 --> 00:04:44.319 smelled like parmesan. He sat down to wait on 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.040 the concrete block, leaving blood on it from 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:48.120 his wounds, and decided to slowly take a small 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:50.040 nibble out of something he had not eaten in nearly 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:52.379 16 years, after the smell of it had gotten in 00:04:52.379 --> 00:04:55.100 his nostrils. Whilst he was prisoner, he had 00:04:55.100 --> 00:04:56.759 been fed nothing but the main course from the 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:59.360 dinner he was abducted at. Slow -cooked Rubik's 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:01.680 Cube -like beefsteak meatloaf on request, at 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:03.939 least three times a day, three green vegetables, 00:05:04.139 --> 00:05:07.160 and scalloped potatoes per meal. The people who 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:08.839 prepared it claimed they were going to charge 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:11.120 him $1 million a steak whilst he was prisoner 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:13.800 of war. An attempt to torture him into playing 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:15.519 along with their inbred baby extortion terrorism 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:19.040 plan. The nun set up the camera and took a photo 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:21.259 of him just as his eyes rolled back in his head 00:05:21.259 --> 00:05:23.139 due to the taste of the cheese hitting his tongue. 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:26.819 When he sat down in the convent in Italy in 1959, 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:29.220 he was still wearing the clothes he was wearing 00:05:29.220 --> 00:05:32.439 to dinner in December 1943, including the remains 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.160 of his top hat and overcoat. His clothes hand 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:37.180 repaired multiple times with whatever he could 00:05:37.180 --> 00:05:39.879 find. His shoes had been taken off whilst he 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.639 was unconscious in 1943 or 1944, and concrete 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:45.860 molded around them, or used as molds to make 00:05:45.860 --> 00:05:47.759 concrete versions, and he had concrete shoes 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:50.439 on his feet that he could not remove. He had 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:52.259 a broken shackle for a chain to pass through 00:05:52.259 --> 00:05:54.259 around his leg above the knee, was injured where 00:05:54.259 --> 00:05:56.699 he removed an arm shackle, had a deep small 1cm 00:05:56.699 --> 00:05:59.040 wide stab wound down to the bone on one leg. 00:05:59.540 --> 00:06:01.959 His right leg was more blood than material, mainly 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:03.879 due to the bullet wounds to his back and buttocks, 00:06:03.939 --> 00:06:06.680 and he had several other injuries. The scars 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:08.600 from those bullet wounds were obvious to me the 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:10.800 day I was born, when he held me up against his 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:14.839 chest in 1972. He had traveled, mostly on foot, 00:06:14.899 --> 00:06:17.040 in the concrete shoes, around the distance from 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.100 Kosovo to the convent, just inside the Italian 00:06:19.100 --> 00:06:21.920 northeast border. He was photographed several 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.379 times whilst he was in the convent. Including 00:06:24.379 --> 00:06:26.879 after he took his first shower in nearly 16 years. 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:30.620 The concrete shoes had to be smashed off. They 00:06:30.620 --> 00:06:32.639 took a photograph of him standing up in a borrowed 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:34.680 priest's smock with a bag of personal belongings 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:36.879 dangling from his hand that contained his sealed 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.079 die matrix that was on his clothes when he was 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:42.319 abducted in December 1943 and the gun Joe had 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:44.639 shot himself with and a few bits and pieces. 00:06:45.459 --> 00:06:47.660 It ended up being used on the cover of the Guns 00:06:47.660 --> 00:06:50.699 N' Roses Use Your Illusion 1 and 2 releases without 00:06:50.699 --> 00:06:52.459 anyone really knowing it was him in the convent 00:06:52.459 --> 00:06:55.860 in 1959 in the photograph. There is a glimpse 00:06:55.860 --> 00:06:57.560 of the gruesome state of his feet in the image. 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:00.019 He had to talk the convent residents through 00:07:00.019 --> 00:07:02.279 what they could do to help him. Like they were 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:04.779 total morons. Anything about helping him with 00:07:04.779 --> 00:07:07.360 his wounds got a distracted stare. He had to 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:09.680 explain to a male in the convent how to mix iodine 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:11.839 with other substance and dilute it so it could 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:14.459 be used as a disinfectant. The blank distracted 00:07:14.459 --> 00:07:16.420 moron followed his instructions and collected 00:07:16.420 --> 00:07:19.600 what he said was required. Whilst he was explaining 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.360 why iodine had to be mixed and diluted, the moron 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:24.540 suddenly tried to pour raw iodine on an open 00:07:24.540 --> 00:07:26.759 wound on his leg whilst he was talking to see 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:29.550 what happened. Kaiser Adolf reacted with a reflex 00:07:29.550 --> 00:07:31.730 short jab punch at the vial he was tipping over 00:07:31.730 --> 00:07:34.009 to stop extremely painful raw iodine getting 00:07:34.009 --> 00:07:36.810 in an open wound. He accidentally got the person 00:07:36.810 --> 00:07:38.870 holding the vial a glancing blow on the jaw on 00:07:38.870 --> 00:07:41.689 the way through. They decided to call the police 00:07:41.689 --> 00:07:44.509 and make an assault complaint. Whilst they were 00:07:44.509 --> 00:07:46.069 waiting and claiming to try to help him with 00:07:46.069 --> 00:07:47.949 the rest of his wounds, particularly his feet, 00:07:48.069 --> 00:07:50.889 there were other incidents. At one point a convent 00:07:50.889 --> 00:07:52.689 resident appeared to try to sever the balls of 00:07:52.689 --> 00:07:54.769 his feet with a razor as if helping him with 00:07:54.769 --> 00:07:57.379 his wounds. They took a quick, badly executed 00:07:57.379 --> 00:07:59.680 swipe at one, and muttered they had to come off. 00:08:00.100 --> 00:08:02.319 It was later established when interviewing them 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:03.920 that they tried to do it to adjust his upright 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:06.019 standing position to look more like crazy fake 00:08:06.019 --> 00:08:08.439 physicist Albert Einstein, who always stood with 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:11.399 a backward lean. The police arrived and took 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:13.240 him to the police station to lay assault charges. 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:15.779 He was interviewed and said that he was Kaiser 00:08:15.779 --> 00:08:17.980 Adolf Hitler the Hohenzollern of Germany, he'd 00:08:17.980 --> 00:08:20.600 been a prisoner for 10, 13, he didn't know how 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:23.550 many years. His date of birth was the 20th of 00:08:23.550 --> 00:08:26.569 April, 1889, and could they please get the authorities 00:08:26.569 --> 00:08:29.230 so he could speak to them? They instead proceeded 00:08:29.230 --> 00:08:31.209 towards charging him with assault, and laid a 00:08:31.209 --> 00:08:34.070 preliminary charge, with paperwork. They took 00:08:34.070 --> 00:08:35.669 statements from the convent residents about the 00:08:35.669 --> 00:08:37.629 incident, and decided it was self -offence on 00:08:37.629 --> 00:08:39.750 his part to stop the moron pouring raw iodine 00:08:39.750 --> 00:08:41.850 on an open wound, and the glancing blow to the 00:08:41.850 --> 00:08:45.029 jaw was accidental, and dropped the charge. It 00:08:45.029 --> 00:08:46.750 was fully recorded in Italian police records, 00:08:47.009 --> 00:08:49.129 and is the only record of any criminal charge 00:08:49.129 --> 00:08:52.000 being laid against him in his entire life. The 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:55.519 20th of April, 1889 to the 20th of April, 1982. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.980 It still appears as the only record with any 00:08:58.980 --> 00:09:00.960 hint of criminal activity about him on modern 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.940 technology -based criminal record searches. It 00:09:03.940 --> 00:09:05.919 transferred to digital records when computers 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.179 took over. The authorities took him in for questioning, 00:09:09.299 --> 00:09:11.279 based on his claim to be Kaiser Adolf Hitler 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:13.419 the Hohenzollern, listed as missing since December 00:09:13.419 --> 00:09:17.039 1943. Some people had been pretending a female 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:20.659 found dead in a bunker. in Berlin in mid -1945 00:09:20.659 --> 00:09:23.600 made over by a film production crew to look like 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.000 him, including authentic costume, was him dead 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.080 instead on television, since it had become commercially 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:30.960 available to the public after World War II. He 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:32.779 didn't know what a television was at the time. 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:35.720 He had seen Sadie Einstein sitting in front of 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:37.840 a box that caused her face to be lit up with 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:39.840 flickering light, without any sound involved. 00:09:40.379 --> 00:09:42.639 But he had never seen the front of it, or heard 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:43.159 any audio.