Posted on 09/06/2013 7:47:08 AM PDT by GoreFreeTN
BERLIN (AP) — He was Adolf Hitler's devoted bodyguard for most of World War II and the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader's final hours in his Berlin bunker. To the very end, SS Staff Sgt. Rochus Misch was proud of it all.
For years, he accompanied Hitler nearly everywhere he went, sticking by the man he affectionately called "boss" until the dictator and his wife, Eva Braun, killed themselves as defeat at the hands of the Allies drew nearer. The loyal SS officer remained in what he called the "coffin of concrete" for days after Hitler's death, finally escaping as Berlin crumbled around him and the Soviets swarmed the city.
Even in his later years, during a 2005 interview with The Associated Press in which he recounted Hitler's claustrophobic, chaotic final days, Misch still cut the image of an SS man, with a rigid posture, broad shoulders, neatly combed white hair — and no apologies for his close relationship with the most reviled man of the 20th century.
"He was no brute. He was no monster. He was no superman," Misch said.
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It’s a complete fabrication, prof.
Don’t you think it would be interesting to walk in their shoes for a decade or so?
Believing the propaganda puke out by our trustworthy government is ridiculous.
Of course the Germans have a race.
They’re Aryans; the master race.....didn’t you know.
Dismissed!
And you, my FRiend, should perhaps seek the services of a psychiatrist.
Your entire little tirade is proof positive that you’re about to join the ranks of the specially segregated group known politely as the NUT CASES.
In other words it would appear that you’re speaking out of your ass.
I recall being told to open fire on an enemy grouped just across a meadow in front of me. With only my trusty M-16 and a .45 1911 pistol, I obeyed. Even though they fired sporadically at me they were missing me by miles. I, being the good and certified Sharpshooter wasn’t missing. Singlehandedly I was able to put them all down.
I was obeying orders. Just like the ‘Kraut’.
Had I refused to obey that order I would have found myself stored away in Leavenworth for several decades.
You are incapable of commenting on any battleground rhetoric I would imagine. If so, kindly keep quiet.
You’re another head case that failed to read the bit of humor in my original posting regarding the dutiful Nazi Sergeant.
Many try to find even a scintilla of a racial comment to scream “ Nya, nya, nya he’s playing the race card, teacher.”
Think once or twice before you post something as sophomoric as you did.
I doubt that the good and loyal Sergeant will be found in Hell. You may fare better when your time omes and get a front row seat.
Climbing on an old soldier’s corpse in order to denigrate a noble soldier is not fair game.
Have you served in the military? Did you obey orders?
Probably not.
Mighty cute little cherub girl! Give her a big kiss!
I was born here, Pole.
Perhaps you’d best scoot back to Krakow and listen for the bugle blowing atop the church tower.
Being incapable of detecting subtle humor you too may be ready for a quiet sanitarium.
That reminds me of a story about sunny southern Spain.
While Franco was yet in power a western news reporter went about the nation trying to find those who truly liked el Caudillo. He searched and searched and couldn’t find a soul who would offer a quote for publication.
Finally he found one who said he’d comment but with a stipulation. He said he would speak,but the reporter had to obtain a boat and row far out on the Mediterranean. So the reporter did that.
Once they were far enough out the reporter asked the Spaniard: “O.K. What do you think of Franco.”
The answer came in a whisper, “I like him.”
Sarge: that was Mussolini who got the trains to run on tim
Hitler got the boxcars to Bergen Belsen to run on time.
All Governments lie.
The Nazis were among the best at it.
I’d probably not want to spend a decade in their shoes, because either Grandpa’s dead or he’s 96 and helped shoot or gas Jews on the Eastern front.
You've taken some hits from others on this thread. I tend to agree with your sentiments. Do you have a German connection?
Both sides. That is perhaps why I have made a study of WWi and its aftermath.
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