Hans Stuck first met Adolf Hitler in 1925, when a mutual friend brought the budding Führer to the racing driver’s farm near Freiburg, Germany, for a day’s hunting. Hitler never forgot his day out and, after taking power on January 30, 1933, telephoned Stuck, who had been bemoaning the lack of a German car to race since both Austro-Daimler and Mercedes-Benz had dropped out of the sport. The Reichskanzler said Stuck, then 32 years old, would get his car and…
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