Rochus Misch

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Rochus Misch


Born
in Alt Schalkowitz, Germany
July 29, 1916

Died
September 05, 2013

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Former officer of the Hitler's private army the LSSAH and from 1940 till 1945 one of Hitler's bodyguards, FHQ secretary and the last witness of the Hitler and Goebbels suicides.

Misch his father died in the first world war before Rochus was born and his mother died when he was three years old. At the age of fifteen he enrolled in a façade painting company as a trainee. Where he completed the training with exellence.

In 1937 he joined the SS-Verfügungstruppe ,which later became the Waffen SS. In 1939 he was badly wounded when a bullet hit his lungs. On recommandation of Wilhelm Mohnke, Misch was assigned in a command of Hitler`s private bodyguards.

After the war Misch was held for nine years in Soviet captivity, where he was exposed to tortu
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“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