Walter Hamböck became a popular organist at Strichen parish church in Scotland after fleeing the Nazis, and his life story will now be told for first time thanks to his diaries

The remarkable life story of Adolf Hitler's pianist, who escaped the Nazis to live in Scotland , is to be told in his own words for the first time.

Walter Hamböck became a popular organist at Strichen parish church in Aberdeenshire in 1962. Few worshippers could have known the extraordinary journey which brought him to the idyllic rural setting following his escape from a concentration camp.

He miraculously survived after the Third Reich turned on him despite his performances for senior members of the Nazi regime. He thought that he was going to be shot before finally being sent to a concentration camp. But he

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