I'm fairly old now, but he was a legend already when I was very young (nearly all other people who where legends already when I was young are dead now). He said in an interview that he was very glad later to have lost his second fight against Lewis (he wasn't glad at all in that moment, of course) for he could hardly have avoided being made member of the NSDAP in case of a win. He was a good one.
The near perfect prototype of a strong-bodied and feeble-brained Aryan had a serious birth defect for that time: he had a good heart.

Wolfgang