Edgar Feuchtwanger, the son of a prominent German Jewish family with roots in Bavaria going back centuries, vividly remembers nearly bumping into his neighbour Adolf Hitler as a boy.
It was 1933 and Hitler, who had just become German chancellor, kept a sprawling flat on Munich's elegant Prinzregentenplatz next door to Feuchtwanger's family home.
Eight years old at the time, he had been taken by his nanny for a walk when they nearly collided with the country's most powerful man.
"It so happened that just at the moment when we were in front of his door, he came out. He was in a nearly white mackintosh," Feuchtwanger told AFP.
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