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 ...
bump
ROFLOL!
“Many would have been considered traitors in their own countries.”
Considered traitors? They WERE traitors.
Not necessarily - many foreign soldiers volunteered to fight the communists - this would not make them traitors, since they had no allegiance to the USSR. A similar example would be foreigners who joined the U.S. Army during Vietnam to fight the communists there.
The “secret” is who shot Eva Braun’s brother-in-law, an SS General who disobeyed orders and left the bunker in late April. Insignificant.
Enough about Ted Kennedy already!!
“Downfall” is a great movie.
Based on the story told by one of Hitler’s young secretaries.
Done in German, but I didn’t find the subtitles hard to follow at all.
Strangely, I hardly noticed them, actually.
Even the Waffen SS was during the last phase of the war full of conscripts.
Most German citizens weren’t in the military, weren’t running the ovens either BUT they were glad they were running. I don’t feel sorry for him at all. While he was Hitler’s bodyguard and telephone operator, there were babies getting smashed to bits by men in the streets. It’s the quiet complicity of people like him that allowed Hitler to continue. Now he’s writing a book about it :eyeroll:
For the Nazis.
“They WERE traitors.”
What if you were a Ukrainian father of German heritage who saw his parents and siblings perish in the 1932 Holdomor - along with 10 million others (while the world covered it up).
When the Nazis rose to power primarily because of its anticommunism and it drove out the communists, who would you have fought for?
http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/order/general/sinner.html
But this apparently is translated from the German.
Amazing. There are actually people on this forum that defend Nazis.
In-effing-credible.
“Amazing. There are actually people on this forum that defend Nazis.
In-effing-credible.”
No one defending Nazis here but you are certainly advancing the leftist tradition of communist genocide obfuscation.
Incidentally, Ukraine is the only country that mounted significant campaigns against both the Communists and Fascists -losing more than any other nation.
http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-29.html
Yes, and one of them turned out to be none other than Gunter Grass. I don't blame him for that, but I do for living a life of deceit afterward.
In-effing-credible, isn’t it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.