Posted on 08/02/2007 3:46:33 AM PDT by Flavius
Rochus Misch, Hitler's bodyguard and telephone operator, is the last surviving member of Hitler's entourage. He has just turned 90 and is publishing a book about his time with the Führer.
The strangest thing was the sight of the two guitar players at the "Kaiserhof" subway station in Berlin. "I come out of this bunker of death, all that drama, and someone's playing music," recalls Rochus Misch. "They played Hawaiian music!" It was May 2, 1945, at six o'clock in the morning.
Near Hitler's bunker, French SS troops and German army units were prolonging the end of World War Two. Misch was desperate to get out of this hell. Alive.
An hour earlier, Misch, 27 years old at the time, had ended his duties in Hitler's bunker beneath the Chancellery. He asked Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister and newly-appointed Reich Chancellor, if there was anything left to do. "Herr Reich Chancellor, I'd like to leave with the rest of the comrades," he says.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
But Misch never talks about the last secret surrounding the final days in the bunker.
oh grea makes you wander what happend...
It doesn’t exactly sound to me like the guy was personally running the ovens, and whatever his sins, I’m sure that 8 years in soviet custody has more than made up for them. I say, leave the old man in peace if it’s what he wants... he had a bad boss is all.
Rather lucky to have survived, given the fact he was SS.
Must have managed a quick costume change before the change of management.
I guess we all have to buy the book to find out. :-)
Pretty bizarre - you have to wonder why the commies let him go.
“you have to wonder why the commies let him go.”
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“It got so bad he sent a letter to Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the NKVD security service, asking to be executed.”
Commies love a sense of humor like this.
Based on his excerpt...
No doubt he threw on a Hawaiian shirt, picked up a uke and lerned the word to the little grass shack or Hookilau song real fast.
The article states that loyal ‘French SS troops’ were helping to prolong the war, that would certainly be a first! LOL
As for Herr Misch, as another poster stated, he wasn’t exactly running the ovens at Auschwitz, he was a telephone operator.
How do you say ‘one ringy-dingy’ in German? ;)
I recall this guy being interviewed for the BBC’s World War II classic, The World At War.
And Beria was sadistic enough to let him live against his wishes.
I guess the guy just wants to cash in. Whatever.
I am always amused by the Japanese interest in the Third Riech. I guess its a “birds of a feather thing....”
Einmal Klingel Dingel
Battle for Berlin ... well over half-million casualties total.
The BBC didn’t do World at War, Thames TV did, and Misch wasn’t in it. He’s been on numerous History Channel documentaries, though.
Rather tragic really, the foreign SS had nowhere to go
since going home was not an option.
Reminds me of the old saying: "The masochist said 'beat me', and the sadist answered 'no'".
In all fairness, SS battle troops would have been Waffen SS, not the monsters of the secret police. That doesn’t make them innocent, but does make them guilty of rather less than they might have been.
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