| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction by Roger Moorhouse; Author''s Introduction; My Childhood:1917-1937; Conscripted Soldier: 1937-1939; The Outbreak of War: 1939; Hitler Needs a Courier; My Reich -- The Telephone Switchboard; The Berghof, Hitler''s Special Train and Rudolf Hess; FHQ Wolfsschanze: 1941; FHQ Wolfsschanze, FHQ Wehrwolf, Stalingrad, My Honeymoon: 1942; The Eastern Front Begins to Turn West: 1943; The Philanderer: 1944; Weddings and Treason: 1944; Preparing the Berlin Bunker: February -- April 1945; Bunker Life: The Last Fortnight of April 1945 |
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Hitler''s Last Day: 30 April 1945Negotiations and the Goebbels Children: 1 May 1945; Break-out and Capture; My Nine Years in Soviet Captivity; My Homecoming and New Beginnings; Short Biographies; Index |
| Summary |
After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler''s SS-bodyguard. There he served until the war''s end as Hitler''s bodyguard, courier, orderly and finally as Chief of Communications. On the Berghof terrace he watched Eva Braun organize parties; observed Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer; and monitored telephone conversations from Berlin to the East Prussian FHQ on 20 July 1944 after the attempt on Hitler''s life. Towards the end Misch was drawn into the Führerbunker with the last of the ''faithful''. As defeat approached, he remained in charge |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Misch, Rochus, 1917-2013.
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
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| SUBJECT |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 fast |
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Misch, Rochus, 1917-2013 fast |
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Allgemeine-SS.
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| SUBJECT |
Allgemeine-SS fast |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin -- Personal narratives, German
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Bodyguards -- Germany -- Anecdotes
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Bodyguards
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Germany
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Germany -- Berlin
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives
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Anecdotes
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives.
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Récits personnels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Misch, Rochus, author
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Moorhouse, Roger, author of introduction, etc
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| ISBN |
9781473836082 |
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1473836085 |
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9781473837010 |
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1473837014 |
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