Rochus Misch > Quotes

“Today there are long debates about whether Hitler can be portrayed as a ‘private’ man at all, even as ‘a person’, but it is very difficult for me to separate the two. I knew him only as a person. A person who was my boss and to whom my welfare was important. He was a boss who had his own physician examine me when I felt bad, who spontaneously gave permission for me to be absent to see a girl, who upon my marriage sent me two cases of the most select wines and made a special payment assuring my life in the enormous sum of 100,000 Reichsmarks, and who never shouted at me. If nevertheless I felt a little uneasy in his presence, that was simply because he was ‘my boss’. I”
― Rochus Misch, Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard

“I followed Kennedy’s speech with its notorious sentence ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ (‘I am a doughnut’ – the correct term is ‘Ich bin Berliner’)”
― Rochus Misch, Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard

“I am an insignificant man, but I have experienced significant matters.”
― Rochus Misch, Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard

“The war is lost.”
― Rochus Misch, Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard

“some women of the house staff also lodged there. Below, in the cellar, Hitler had had a bowling alley built. The fact that he liked to bowl he kept to himself. This passion did not seem to him to be fitting for a great statesman, and he was concerned that all the bowling clubs of the Reich, should they discover his predilection, would make him honorary chairman.”
― Rochus Misch, Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard