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 ...
“the deaths of approximately one million Germans in what was called, Eisenhowers death camps”
Is that an accurate death toll?
If you google “Other Losses” and review, you should be able to get different opinions on the book - needless to say, there will be plenty of “Eisenhower death camp deniers”. But according to the review I excerpted above, U.S. Army colonel Ernest Fisher, Senior Army Historian, endorsed the book.
“Makes one wonder about FDR’s deals, especially Tehran and Yalta.”
FDR’s State Dept Handlers who set up the trip also set up Roosevelt. They were actually communists tho I dont believe they had to do too much prodding. FDR’s wife was a closet commie too.
Stephen Ambrose pingy.
My battalion’s officers and senior NCOs went on a staff ride to Little Big Horn last year. You always hear what an overconfident idiot Custer was. That staff ride was the first time I’d ever had historical perspective applied to Custer’s decisions. Given what he knew at the time, based on his considerable experience, he made very reasonable decisions—decisions that, in hindsight, turned out to be wrong.
They had already been released from their oath's of loyalty and could have returned to France but chose instead to go to Berlin knowing they would be fighting to the death.
Same with the subtitled version of Das Boot. You hardly notice the subtitles because English is a Germanic language
If you haven't already done so, you might be interested in reading this online narrative from circa 1930 titled Black Elk Speaks. It's a fascinating first person account of Black Elk, a member of the Oglala Sioux from his birth circa 1863 until Wounded Knee in 1890. Black Elk was a cousin of Crazy Horse and participated in among other battles, Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee.
Some accounts of Black Elks contemporaries were also included in the narrative. While it was outside the scope of the book, Black Elk became a Catholic circa 1895 and lived until 1950.
Not a first at all. There were many French (and other Europeans) who thought that Hitler was just dandy and the SS loved to use them. If anything, they were more brutal than the German SS units. Check out the patch on this Frog's sleeve.
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