| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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Book |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Misch, Rochus, 1917-2013.
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Misch, Rochus, 1917-2013. |
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945. |
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Allgemeine-SS.
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Allgemeine-SS. |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Berlin -- Personal narratives, German.
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Bodyguards -- Germany -- Anecdotes.
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Bodyguards. |
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Germany. |
| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Electronic books.
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Personal narratives -- German.
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Personal narratives.
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Personal narratives.
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Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
Misch, Rochus, 1917-2013, author.
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Moorhouse, Roger, author of introduction, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hitler's last witness : the memoir of Hitler's bodyguard. South Yorkshire, England : Frontline Books, ©2014 xvii, 254 pages 9781848327498 |
| ISBN |
9781473836082 (electronic book) |
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1473836085 (electronic book) |
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9781473837010 (electronic book) |
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1473837014 (electronic book) |
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9781848327498 |
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