Max Schmeling was the World Heavyweight Boxing Champion between 1930 and 1932, and was the Pride of Germany. His late 1930's bouts with Joe Louis are still talked and written about today. People called him a Nazi, but although he served in the German Luftwaffe, his hiding of two Jewish children on the night of Kristallnacht as well as other actions during the war prove otherwise. After the war he visited many wounded Americans and would hand out signed photos and talk with the boys.
He and Joe louis became friends, and in Louis's later life Schmeling helped pay medical bills and even helped pay for his funeral.
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