"Very little changed for a young Jewish boy, Edgar Feuchtwanger, when Hitler moved into his street in an affluent Munich suburb - until the night of 9 November 1938, when the onslaught against German Jews began in earnest. More than eight decades have gone by, but Feuchtwanger can still recall the first time he caught sight of the unmistakable figure of Adolf Hitler. It was the early 1930s when the eight-year-old, out for a walk with his nanny, saw the Nazi leader, dressed in his emblematic belted mackintosh and Trilby hat, coming out of a large second-storey apartment. "He looked straight at me, I don't think he smiled," Feuchtwanger recalls. A few people stopped and shouted "Heil Hitler". In response, he raised his hat, "like a democratic politician might do" before driving off in an awaiting car. "Of course I knew who he was, even as a little boy," says Feuchtwanger in slow but clear English. "As chancellor he was dominating the whole scene." But at that stage, he says, seeing him up close did not instil fear. "Perhaps if I had thought about it I might have been scared, but it wouldn't have done me any good," Feuchtwanger says. "I was just curious to see him there." The 88-year-old recognises that it may seem odd to talk about the author of the Holocaust as just another neighbour." BBC News - Edgar Feuchtwanger: A Jewish childhood on Hitler's street
