What did Albert Goring, the brother of Hitler’s deputy, do?

Not many know the story of Albert Göring. In April 1938, Austria had recently been annexed by Germany. In Vienna, some SS men amused themselves by humiliating a group of Jews by forcing them to kneel and clean the floor with brushes. From the crowd of onlookers, a man emerged, brush in hand, and knelt with the Jews to help them clean. When the SS ordered him to stand and show his papers, the man obeyed without fear. Braving the wrath of the SS, the man claimed to be a friend of the Jews and wanted to help them. He was about to be shot by the nearest soldier when a comrade stopped him. The name of Albert Göring, brother of the Nazi regime’s number two, second only to Hitler, stood out on the document of the man challenging the soldiers of the Third Reich . After the necessary checks, confirmation arrived from Berlin, and the man was released with profuse apologies.