Hitler's body guard: The Fuhrer was a good boss

By Ofer Aderet, Haaretz Correspondent

Tags: Hitler, Jewish World

Adolf Hitler gave Rochus Misch only a momentary glance when he was first introduced to the young man who was to go on to become the Fuhrer's head bodyguard.

Misch, now 91 and the only living member of the group that was in Hitler's bunker when the Fuhrer committed suicide, reveals his own impressions of the Nazi leader in his book "The Last Witness," published earlier this month in Germany.

The pivotal period of Misch's military career began in 1940, when he joined Hitler's inner circle, and ended with Hitler's suicide in his Berlin bunker in 1945. For five years, Misch worked as a courier, bodyguard and telephone operator in the Fuhrer's office.
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"In the inner circle, Hitler was a good boss," he recalled in the book. "In the living quarters and the work room Hitler was a very relaxed man. He had a deep and quiet voice. There was no need to be scared if you made a mistake."

Today Misch still receives letters at his home in Berlin. Many people contact him with requests for an autograph or for details of his connection to Hitler. In the last few years Misch has turned into somewhat of a celebrity, particularly in the wake of the popularity of the movie "The Downfall" (2004), which depicted Hitler's last days in the bunker.

A year after that movie the Israeli director Yael Katz Benshalom produced a documentary on Misch, also called "The Last Witness".

Incidentally, the U.K. newspaper The Guardian published an article three years ago on another witness from the bunker days they had managed to track down - nurse Erne Flegel, who had moved to northern Germany and agreed to tell her testimony for the first time.

In his book, Misch described Hitler's everyday life as quite banal. The reader will discover, for example, that Hitler spent his nights clutching a hot water bottle, and will learn about the mosquitoes that disturbed the Fuhrer's relaxation time in the military headquarters. Hitler particularly enjoyed the parties thrown by his wife, Eva Braun.

"She was a nice woman and very sporty," Misch wrote of Braun, describing her dancing ability.

In contrast to what one might assume, Misch insisted that the leader's headquarters were not run like a war room.

"Nobody saluted their higher-ranking colleagues within the building. Hitler was the only one who used the military salute," Misch wrote. "The young people called him Mein Fuhrer, the older called him Herr Hitler, or Boss."

The war crimes that occurred under Hitler's leadership, including the Holocaust, go almost unmentioned in the book.

"At no time did they speak about the camps and what happened there. I was at Hitler's side and he never visited the camps," Misch wrote. He also mentioned that one of Hitler's favorite songs was composed by a Jew, and revealed that his personal cook was not a "real Aryan."

Misch has a strong recollection of the final days. On April 30 1945, shortly after 3 P.M., Hitler left his final followers and entered the private room with Eva Braun.

"He didn't want us to disturb him anymore," remembered Misch, who understood at the time what was about to happen. "Thirty, maybe 45 minutes later, we heard the shots, and later they ordered me to open the door. And there I saw - and I could never forget it - Eva Braun on the couch and her head resting on Hitler."

An English-language edition of the book is expected to be released by the end of 2008.

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History has condemned him as the megalomaniac who brought death and misery to millions.

But for one woman, the name Adolf Hitler evokes a smile not a shudder.

She is Rosa Mitterer, who worked as a maid for the Fuhrer at his mountain retreat in Bavaria in the 1930s.

Rosa is 91 and until now has kept a vow of silence about her experiences. She has chosen to break it after realising she is the last survivor of the circle who served the tyrant in the years before he launched the Second World War.


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91-year-old Rosa Mitterer is the sole survivor of those who served Adolf Hitler in the years before the Second World War


And her verdict on her former master: 'He was a charming man, someone who was only ever nice to me, a great boss to work for. You can say what you like, but he was a good man to us.'

Rosa's remembrances of life at the court of the tyrant make gripping reading. She saw leading Nazis come and go. Himmler, the evil party secretary; Bormann, whom she described as a 'dirty pig'; and the club-footed, sexually-obsessed propaganda minister Goebbels.

Rosa went into Hitler's service at the age of 15 in 1932 when she was Rosa Krautenbacher. Her sister Anni had worked as a cook at Hitler's Berchtesgaden retreat since the late 1920s.

'She said he needed a housemaid and I would fit the bill,' Rosa recalled. 'I remember so clearly the first day I spoke to him in the kitchen. I said I was Anni's sister and that made him smile, because Anni was his favourite. I only ever knew Hitler as a kindly man who was good to me.'

His former housekeeper was Geli Raubal, with whom it was rumoured he had a love affair. 'She shot herself in September 1931 and I was told as soon as I went to work for him that he was not to be approached on the anniversary of that day,' said Rosa.

'My sister and I shared a room that was directly over Hitler's. We could hear him crying.'

For a long time she and Anni were the only servants in the home, known as Berghof.


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A photo taken at Rosa's sister's wedding, which Hitler attended


Recalling her first direct request from her master, she said she was drying some porcelain cups when he came down the stairs.

'Hello,' he said softly. 'Sorry to trouble you, but could you make me some coffee and bring some gingerbread biscuits to my study?'

Coming into such close proximity to Hitler made her feel faint, she said, but she soon became accustomed to life at Berghof.

'I rose at 6am every day and put on a red-green dirndl with a white apron. My first task was to feed his dogs - he had three German shepherds at the beginning called Wolf, Muck and Blondi.

'In those days, Hitler slept in his study. In it was an iron bed, one wardrobe, one table, two chairs and a shoebox. It was very modestly furnished. Beside the bed hung a picture of his mother.'

She added: 'I didn't have to be a Nazi party member or anything. After a while I relaxed a bit. Apparently it was Hitler's orders that Anni and I be taken to church every Sunday because he thought this would be "good for us".

'Another time he came into the kitchen, saw me and said, "Ahh, I see our little one has grown a little plumper!".'

Part of her duties involved sorting out the fan letters and presents that were delivered in their thousands to the house.

'There were cigars, jars of jam, flowers, pictures,' she recalled. 'We gave most of them away to poorer peasant families nearby on Hitler's orders.'

Her time in service also allowed her to see at close quarters the woman Hitler kept secret from his people throughout his rule - Eva Braun. 'She was not so pretty close up,' Rosa recalled.

'Himmler was always there too, thinner than what he looked like in the photos, and Goebbels.

'And Bormann, I didn't like him at all. He was a dirty pig.' By the end of 1934, the house was surrounded by minefields and SS checkpoints. Rosa said. 'I felt like a prisoner instead of an employee.'

In 1935 she fell in love with local businessman Josef Amorts and handed in her notice. She was told she could leave immediately..

'I only met Hitler once more, on December 10, 1936, when Anni married Herbert Doehring, manager of the Berghof. He came to the wedding and was nice to me, saying he missed me.'

Rosa married in 1939 and had three daughters. She later remarried. A great-grandmother, she now lives in Munich. After the war she had to confront the reality of the man for whom she had worked so willingly. And in particular the reality of the Holocaust.

'That he had ordered such terrible things, I just couldn't believe it,' she said. 'Even now, I prefer to remember the charming facets of his personality.'



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History has condemned him as the megalomaniac who brought death and misery to millions.

"History" is not some magical force, it is made by people so the only reason that this "History" is Anti-Hitler is because the people who have made "History" are opposed to Nazi ideology and these people are JEWS and the dumb Goyim who are too selfish and stupid to care.

One thing always jumps out when reading such ziofied propaganda pieces: "News" sources no longer inform, they now always attempt to editorialize and influence the reader's opinions. Hitler wasn't a leader, but a tyrant. Goebbels wasn't a family man with six children who held a doctorate, he was club-footed (how un-PC, to ridicule the handicapped. Oh, wait, it's ok...he's a nazi) and sexually obsessed (again, would they say this about their beloved Bill Clinton?). The Führer wasn't her employer, but her master (although, in the first instance, he politely asks her for food...hardly masterly).

'That he had ordered such terrible things, I just couldn't believe it,' she said.

Nor can I.

One thing always jumps out when reading such ziofied propaganda pieces: "News" sources no longer inform, they now always attempt to editorialize and influence the reader's opinions. Hitler wasn't a leader, but a tyrant. Goebbels wasn't a family man with six children who held a doctorate, he was club-footed (how un-PC, to ridicule the handicapped. Oh, wait, it's ok...he's a nazi) and sexually obsessed (again, would they say this about their beloved Bill Clinton?). The Führer wasn't her employer, but her master (although, in the first instance, he politely asks her for food...hardly masterly).

'That he had ordered such terrible things, I just couldn't believe it,' she said.

Nor can I.

And why do the masses tolerate it? Do they want to be treated like children?

And why do the masses tolerate it? Do they want to be treated like children?

Sure, I believe they do. Look at how willingly they hand over decision-making to government and other "authorities", or send their children off to die for Israel's benefit under some pretense of "freedom". And of course, they gladly trade their remaining real freedoms for phony "security" plans from ZOG.

It's a better thing for the powers that be. No need to physically force lemmings anywhere. Just make it seem socially unacceptable to resist and they'll do whatever you wish.

Nice story, it would be very nice to have a talk with that lady.
She must regret very much leaving her post so early.
I notice the same things as Metal Warrior, the crap they put in between the lines to mock the men and ideals that in their hearts they fear the most, cowards.

"History" is not some magical force, it is made by people so the only reason that this "History" is Anti-Hitler is because the people who have made "History" are opposed to Nazi ideology and these people are JEWS and the dumb Goyim who are too selfish and stupid to care.

That's exactly right Mike, your thoughts expressed here put me in mind of that timely quote from 1984 in which Orwell wrote: "If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. Who controls the past ran the party slogan , controls the future, who controls the present controls the past."

Here we see honest candid praise from Rosa Mitterer, and I've also read in interviews where Hitler's (still living) bodyguard Rochus Misch
has always maintained that Hitler was a "good boss" and even sent he and his bride a case of champagne once! ...

People need to know that while Hitler was of course an extraordinary, brilliant inspiring leader...that beneath it all he was a man and a Human being like the rest of us.
So many clueless TV watchers and willful lemmings cant stomach that fact + the alien media will forever perpetrate the image they've carefully created of him being a monster.

Certainly as even with the greatest of men even he made a few mistakes, and of course his emotions and sanity were open to the rigors and responsibilities of a war being forced upon his shoulders and the survival of his nation and people. He was nonetheless truly great and will no doubt forever be seen as fascinating and inspiring to many.

Adolf Hitler was an animal lover,an ardent respector of women and children, a gentleman, and even a joker, so this latest revelation to surface doesn't surprise me in the least. :swastikasmiley:


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Such a beautiful photo! These people were of such a completely different mindset, that I daresay they were of a completely different race.

The parents in the photo were born circa 1900 and raised on pure Germanic pre-Weimar (Jew) culture.

The grandparents who are not in the photo were born circa 1875!


What kind of authority figures do we have in comparison? A bunch of nigger-loving, egoistical hippies?

The Kike has completely destroyed the West's familial tradition and cultural history.

Even if the White Race does survive, it will never again truly be the White Race, but rather a cheap substitute.

T.J.B.T.J.B.T.J.B.

I must say that I'm surprised to even see this story at all. Someone actually giving a glowing report of the oh so evilest Man in jewstory, the infamous AH himself? How did this story slip through the juden cracks?

I suppose the jew hack 'writers' and 'editors' weighed it out and decided that it was just too great an opportunity to once again slam Nazis, even if it is goy-subtle and between the lines. There's no way they could have simply passed it up, due to some nobody's opinion about the Man.

Pure gold...

I'm somewhat shocked and pleasantly surprised, that this woman wasn't made out to be a complete lunatic, senile and totally depraved. Looks like jew slipped up there at least. Hopefully his masters are correcting that, so that the next time he "writes" a 'news' piece, everyone gets slammed equally, while the jew is instead puffed up to new heights of chosenism. (If that's even possible anymore.)

We all know that AH loved our people, and despised our enemies, but especially our mortal arch-enemy; the eternal jew.
It is of course, no crime to hate your enemies, and to hate that which is hateful toward you, unless of course, you happen to be a White heterosexual Man.

Why, then it's a 'crime', dont ye know?

Repeat after me:

Only jew is allowed to hate...well, more correctly; jew, nigger, spic, woman, mystery meat, faggot, dyke, etc. is allowed to hate. And boy do they hate you White Man. Should you reciprocate, however, you White Man, go to prison for speaking out against the genocide of your own kith and kin, let alone calling attention to the big hollow hoax lie....:puke:

Now lie down and die already, would you? The satanic work of the jew cannot succeed without this happening!

T.J.B.T.J.B.T.J.B.

Now for the real 'between the lines', and the only real truths in this entire piece of jewish crap hit piece.
These are the self-evident truths about who and what Hitler really was, in spite of some six million plus rat-faced attempts at blood libel against him.
Apparently it was Hitler's orders that Anni and I be taken to church every Sunday because he thought this would be "good for us".

Yep, sounds like pure evil to me...
Part of her duties involved sorting out the fan letters and presents that were delivered in their thousands to the house.

Because as everyone knows, Hitler's people were terrified of and despised him...

'There were cigars, jars of jam, flowers, pictures,' she recalled. 'We gave most of them away to poorer peasant families nearby on Hitler's orders.'

Something a greasy rat fuck jew could never even dream of having any concept of.

'I only met Hitler once more, on December 10, 1936, when Anni married Herbert Doehring, manager of the Berghof. He came to the wedding and was nice to me, saying he missed me.'


More and more pure evil...
Rosa married in 1939 and had three daughters. She later remarried. A great-grandmother, she now lives in Munich. After the war she had to confront the reality of the man for whom she had worked so willingly.
And in particular the reality of the Holocaust.
Just couldn't resist, could you kike?
'That he had ordered such terrible things, I just couldn't believe it,' she said. 'Even now, I prefer to remember the charming facets of his personality.'


Because these charming facets of his personality were actually real, just as you remember them, as opposed to the false guilt and shame you have been subjected to by satanic, lying jews, simply for being German, for the majority of your life. All jewish bullshit, and all out of hatred for Aryans in general, but especially Germans like yourself.

How dare you admire a Man who would free your people from jewish oppression and genocide!!!

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Hitler's orders that Anni and I be taken to church every Sunday because he thought this would be "good for us". Many on this site needs to read this a few times.

Many on this site needs to read this a few times.

Many here do not look at it in terms of what was, and what could be but rather what is.

People always want something to blame, whenever there is a sign of weakness in a society something must be attacked a figure must be found that they can point to and say "this is the cause"...when we reflect upon our own role in the demise of Western Civilization...to most here the thing to blame is Christianity.

You and I both know that the institution of Christianity today isn't ideal. It perpetuates the same lies spread by Government and by jews...their leadership figures only care about the size of their wallets rather than adhering to the true nature of the doctrine itself.

Today it cannot be said that going to church is "good" for a person, it is an institution of indoctrination. Many here despite their obvious disdain for the religion is right about that one thing at least.

That it should die? I don't think so, look what Hitler managed to accomplish in an era where the Church was just as vile as it is today...it was returned to sanity, it became healthy again.

Rather than blame Christianity for what has become, we should blame ourselves, because in the end it is not the doctrine that made society as it is, it is our gullibility for believing such blatant lies despite being provided with the ability to read for ourselves, and to see despite the interpretation of the man cloaked standing before us, it is not so.

We are to blame for the way society turned out we are the ones who allowed ourselves to be fooled and swindled by propaganda...we were the ones who threw away our convictions and our faith (to those modern Christians) simply because we didn't like to hear our views associated as "ignorant" on the T.V.

The reason for societies demise in the Western world is Society itself.

We are to blame for the way society turned out we are the ones who allowed ourselves to be fooled and swindled by propaganda...we were the ones who threw away our convictions and our faith (to those modern Christians) simply because we didn't like to hear our views associated as "ignorant" on the T.V.

You hit on the core of the problem right there, that fitting in with what TV says is more important to Whites than anything else.

Hitler is greater than any jew who ever lived or will live.

He was kind to animals, respectful to women, loved his people, was an artist, had a clear vision of who the jew was, and was incredibly courageous. Through his leadership he led Germany out of the clutches of the jew bankers, helped to found one of the most durable and popular cars of all time (the Volkswagon), and through his support of the Luftwaffe, inspired, and laid the basis for the next 65 years of aviation theory and application.

Show me a jew that even comes close in positive achievements. (Oh yes, jews do have the same level of achievement it seems, but on as far as you count nation wrecking as an achievement.)

You hit on the core of the problem right there, that fitting in with what TV says is more important to Whites than anything else.

Yep, it is how we as a society lost our values. Most of the people didn't and still do not enjoy being associated with "ignorance" on the T.V.

You can see this embedded in their minds, the first response of any Anti would be to call a racially aware individual "ignorant", if that doesn't work the good old fashioned "T.V." Nazi label follows...if they realise this person is not "shamed" and will not "conform" they are dumbfounded, they have nothing left to say...except the odd your mother insults.

Hitler is greater than any jew who ever lived or will live.

He was kind to animals, respectful to women, loved his people, was an artist, had a clear vision of who the jew was, and was incredibly courageous. Through his leadership he led Germany out of the clutches of the jew bankers, helped to found one of the most durable and popular cars of all time (the Volkswagon), and through his support of the Luftwaffe, inspired, and laid the basis for the next 65 years of aviation theory and application.

Show me a jew that even comes close in positive achievements. (Oh yes, jews do have the same level of achievement it seems, but on as far as you count nation wrecking as an achievement.)

Many of the strong and faithful German catholic mothers wanted their sons to become priests, men who would be able to strive for the highest integrity in their spiritual service to the benefit of their kinsmen.
Hitlers mother was one of them.
Hitler became the ultimate selfless priest of the German nation.
He became an inspiration to many of the German catholic priests at that
time.
Woman are only as respectable as the men that lead them.
It is frightening to see what havoc men like Mike Mazzone are able to create
in womans minds and panties. :o

His former housekeeper was Geli Raubal, with whom it was rumoured he had a love affair. 'She shot herself in September 1931 and I was told as soon as I went to work for him that he was not to be approached on the anniversary of that day,' said Rosa.

'My sister and I shared a room that was directly over Hitler's. We could hear him crying.'
I find this very moving - that this man the jews have demonized for generations was very human at heart. Kind of casts doubts on the jews’ claims of Hitler being a soulless, fire-breathing monster ...

It gives me great pleasure to know that after so many years that these dirty jew bugs still shake in their shoes like a little child in the dark at the thought of this great man, so much so that they need special laws to protect the child like minds of populations from ideals that they know are true and so are afraid of.
Vision, ideals and honor can not be taken away they cannot be made illegal, like air to breath they are there for all with eyes to see and ears to hear -What to do ? Block the ears and fill the eyes and mind with false vision, after so many times up becomes down, dark becomes light and like a baby born in a closet and raised on oatmeal, this is the only thing they know so have no problems with it.
To have these dirty roaches try to insult a man and people of honor and pride, when in this day we can see the pure filth and pervert, ungodly lifestlye of so many, entire cities even look at san francisco, where they think nothing of having gay sex in the streets, gay marraige, black pride, all of this thank the nasty, slimey cowardly jew for it.
I think we can see what is "jewish pride" by typing in "horse sex" at google.

And finally I would love very much to see this miscreant pretender Obongo go out among the people who are supposed to love him so much, as I understand it this "leader" is going to need more protection to hide him from the public more than any other person in history, please Obama go out among the public which adores you so much, If AH did it then I think you should try it also, and of course the only reason AH needed any guards was to keep the adoring public from hurting him in their rush to show their love and respect.

Hitler is The Great Hero of Our Race. If our people as a whole eventually realize he was right, and follow his example, he will be praised as such for as long as our race lives.

It is true that in the beginning, Hitler was a man of Germany. But eventually, he became a man of Europe - the Waffen SS was the first truly Pan-European army, with volunteers from all over Europe. By the end of the war, the non-German Waffen-SS members numbered an amazing 600,000 and outnumbered the German voluneteers.

I find it amusing when Jews try to attack me for my praise of Hitler by making the absurd claim that Hitler was a Jewish puppet. Yeah, sure. A puppet who writes Mein Kampf, a puppet who almost succeeds in kicking the Jews out of Europe?

I'm glad this woman finally had the courage to tell the truth about Hitler. Ignoring the usual Jewish slime inserted here and there, it's a great little recounting of events and I'm going to send it to several folks who think I'm a little "extreme" for my admiration and praise of this wonderful man.

Mein Kampf is an excellent book by the way. I highly recommend it.

'Sorry to trouble you, but could you make me some coffee and bring some gingerbread biscuits to my study?'

-Adolf Hitler

Quote:
'Sorry to trouble you, but could you make me some coffee and bring some gingerbread biscuits to my study?'

-Adolf HitlerHe must've got tired of chewing on the carpet.:rolleyes:

Hitler's life should be contrasted with Churchill's, and his words should be contrasted with Orwell's, and his actions contrasted with both.

German: preciser, braver, better.

English: showier, profile-ier, inferior.

Hitler's life should be contrasted with Churchill's, and his words should be contrasted with Orwell's, and his actions contrasted with both.

German: preciser, braver, better.

English: showier, profile-ier, inferior.

German superiority comes from striving to be the best.
English superiority comes from trying to hamstring everyone else.

http://www.meaus.com/gunsche-birthday85.htm

Article is written in 2002, Gunsche died a few years ago.

Hitler's Adjutant Otto Günsche turns 85

The officer lives a very private life--old friends congratulate him

SS-Obersturmführer Otto Günsche.

Berlin (bpb) One of the greatest eyewitnesses of the Third Reich celebrated his 85th birthday: Otto Günsche. He was born on September 24, 1917. Günsche was the officer in the Reich Chancellory, who received from Hitler himself the order to burn his body one day. This actually happened on April 30, 1945. Among other things discussed, Günsche confirmed to the writer Joe F. Bodenstein in an interview that he did actually did set afire the "body of the Führer". At first Hitler's secretary Bormann tried to start the fire with a sheet of paper. Finally Günsche threw a burning bunch of clothes on the body, which was previously soaked in gasoline.

Günsche left the Reich Chancellory on the same day. To the people in his group leaving the bunker also belonged Adolf Hitler's private secretary Gerda Christian. As she reported to the writer, the breakout from the Chancellory succeeded through a tunnel of the Berlin underground metro from the Voss-Strasse to the Station on Friedrichstrasse. There the two long-time companions in Hitler's service said good-bye to one another. Otto Günsche finally fell into Soviet captivity and survived years of captivity in Russian concentration camps.

After 1945 Günsche survived Soviet concentration camps in Siberia. During the government of Konrad Adenauer he was released to return to West Germany.

Gerda Christian escaped from Berlin into the western American zone. There she was captured by the CIA and interrogated for several days. The freeing of Günsche happened thanks to the initiative of the first post-war German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. After hard negotiations Chancellor Adenauer finally succeeded to bring back home to Germany thousands of German soldiers from captivity in the Soviet Union.

Günsche was known as a blameless young officer. There were no accusations against him personally. After regaining his freedom, Günsche became emplyed in the industry in West Germany. In business dealings, he was highly respected. He was known as a man of honor. Gerda Christian belonged up to her death to the circle of his friends. The formed adjutant of the Führer has refused, in spite of greatest financial offers from Germany and abroad, all offers to write his own memoires that would be critical of the National Socialist times or Hitler.

Copyright 2002 Prometheus, 84/2002

Hitler was good, dedicated man, full of love to his nation...my grandfather was in Wermacht army during 2ww in Dresden, he said to me: that was futuristic, rich, tollerant country, that was good times, Hitler was true leader, one thing that he wasnt tollerate was stealing, cheeting, homosexuals, layers...

Hitler was good, dedicated man, full of love to his nation...my grandfather was in Wermacht army during 2ww in Dresden, he said to me: that was futuristic, rich, tollerant country, that was good times, Hitler was true leader, one thing that he wasnt tollerate was stealing, cheeting, homosexuals, layers...


I imagine your grandfather's service in the Wermacht would be a great source of pride and honor Adolf Croata. I know it would be for me. I am American of German descent and know friends who's relatives served in the Wermacht during the war and I find it all to be richly fascinating. I agree Hitler was a strong true leader with vision genius and principles. I was really thrilled to find this article and read this amazing great-grandmother's personal story.

:swastikasmiley:

Get the 1937 book I Knew Hitler by Kurt Ludecke, he was imprisoned in America during WWII considered a Nazi loyalist by the FBI because although he had felt betrayed by Hitler over the 1934 Roehm purge, he remained loyal to the National Socialist ideology. He was in prison in the U.S. until 1948.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,758376,00.html

I KNEW HITLER—Kurt G. W. Ludecke —Scribner ($3.75).

In the harassed early days when Kurt Ludecke was about the only Nazi who had plenty of spending money, his good cronies Hitler and other future Nazi big shots called him "Der Amerikaner." This nickname came from his familiarity with the U. S., his smart clothes, wrist watch, nervy wit. He was, said Hitler, half-facetiously refusing him permission to make soapbox speeches, ''too much of a swell.'' Later, when Nazi officials had limousines and champagne, the nickname still stuck—but with a shadier meaning, derived partly from Ludecke's too thoughtful awareness of U. S. anti-Nazi opinion. "A strange bird," Hitler now said, "a good head, but a dangerous brother!"

As Hitler's confidential agent. Kurt Ludecke managed the first meeting between Hitler and Mussolini, headed the first Nazi propaganda missions abroad, the Nazi press bureau in Washington, and in I Knew Hitler now recalls the late and living Nazi leaders from the days when they could barely afford paste for posters. Into his 814-page confessions Author Ludecke dumps an amazing store of uncloseted skeletons and dirty Nazi linen. He writes in English, easily, with no accent, frequent wit. His story is the most amende and grimly absorbing Nazi confession that has yet appeared in English.

Like Trotsky (also a U. S. resident in his day). Ludecke still believes in the Idea; his disillusionment is with the Leader. "Surrendering my being" to Hitler in 1922, Author Ludecke (who had just cleaned up on smart business deals with Soviet Russia) for some time could not find anything about Hitler to criticize except his sloppiness. his frightful hard collars, his heavy dandruff, a habit of munching a sausage during important conferences, for which he was always late. A first hint that his hero possessed deeper faults was when Ludecke found out. by painful experience, that Hitler abandoned comrades who got themselves in jail. When Hitler was imprisoned after the 1923 ''Beer Hall Putsch," Ludecke was sent on a begging tour of the U. S., where he negotiated — unsuccessfully — with Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan, small fry from coast to coast. On a second trip—this time to escape the still more savage intrigues of his comrades— he hit on the idea of an "American folkic program," to be headed by Flyer Lindbergh, spread the good word about Hitler but got little money. In Detroit he married a plain, sensible librarian.

Back in Germany, Ludecke did his aggressive best to keep Hitler out of bad company (Goring, Goebbels, Hindenburg, the industrialists), thought Roehm and Strasser the likely ones to help him. This proved a bad guess, and in 1933 Ludecke found himself in disfavor. On the day that Ludecke reached Manhattan, having escaped after eight months in a concentration camp as "Hitler's personal prisoner." he read the headlines announcing the Blood Purge. The shock left him rocking precariously on the pavement. But he had salvaged his life and a profitable store of Hitlerian anecdotes.

On the public criticism of his stormtroopers' sex life said the Realmleader: ''I'd a lot rather my good SA men took the pretty women than that some fat-bellied moneybag should have them." On Roehm's noisome notoriety: "Ridiculous! I love Richard Wagner's music — must I close my ears to it because he was a pederast?" On Ludecke: "You'd make a good ambassador—you have the equipment for it. and you know how to take the women." On the rest of the world: "I don't care what they think and write about me abroad."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,763285,00.html

The New Ludecke

Monday, Jan. 01, 1940

A confidant of Hitler in the early Munich days of Naziism was young, smartly dressed, nervy Kurt Ludecke. In 1924 he came to the U. S. as a Nazi newspaper correspondent. When he returned to Germany nine years later, found things no longer to his liking and expressed his opinions, he was thrown into a concentration camp by Adolf. There he even thought of suicide, but escaped instead and fled to the U. S., where he proclaimed. "The old Ludecke is dead."

"Reborn," he applied for U. S. citizenship and wrote a book called I Knew Adolf Hitler. In it he renounced the new course of Naziism, though he retained his belief in Nazi racial doctrines.

Last week he appeared in a Detroit Federal Court to hear a decision on his citizenship application, postponed until Judge Arthur J. Tuttle found time to read his book.

"The old Ludecke is dead," said Ludecke, with by now well-rehearsed emphasis. "The new Ludecke stands before you. He is Ludecke the ex-Nazi, the man who has changed in heart, mind and spirit."

Said Judge Tuttle last week, eying the breast-beating new Ludecke: "I believe I can still see signs of him [the old Ludecke] popping up again," thereupon denied his application "with prejudice." Ludecke will have to wait five years before he can try again.

The book is hard to find so you may have to go to your local university and read it there. Here's a link that shows what the book looks like

http://www.wfu.edu/~chesner/bc-conlaw%20powers/Linked%20Files/Ludecke.rtf

Australian professor Stephen H. Roberts visited Germany from 1935-1937 and he interviewed Hitler and then wrote of his impressions of the German leader in his 1937 book The House That Hitler Built.

II. The Man Hitler

It is almost impossible to give any idea of Hitler's personality, because every interpretation of necessity reflects the viewpoint of the interpreter. There can be no finality. All that one can do is to set down the attributes that one has noticed in listening and speaking to Hitler oneself.

Hitler undoubtedly has a very complex personality. People like Stalin and Mussolini are much simpler--easier to analyse and understand; but there is something elusive about Hitler, and one feels that the simplest solutions fall short of the whole truth. The two most popular views picture him either as a mere ranting stump-orator, or as a victim of demoniacal possession, driven hither and thither by some occult force that makes him a power of evil. But these are as unsatisfactory as the view of his believers that he is a demigod, revealing the path Germany is to follow by some divine power of intuitively knowing what to do.

I think that he is primarily a dreamer, a visionary. His mind, nurtured by the other-worldness of the Alpine scenery round his mountain retreat of Berchtesgaden, runs to visions; and I have heard his intimates say that, even in cabinet meetings when vital questions of policy are being discussed, he is dreaming--thinking of the light that never was on sea or land, the consecration and the poet's dream.

South Germany has always produced dreamers and romantics, like the Swan-king Ludwig of Bavaria. The romantic side of medievalism is always with them. They live in an impracticable world of unbelievable mountains; their fields and houses are like stage settings; they dream of treasure-trove and speak of masses of emeralds on the peaks illuminated by the moon at her full; they accept the fairy-tale castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwengau as part of normal existence; they live, as it were, in a typical Wagnerian opera.

Hitler is one of them--a peasant's son with little more than a peasant's education, but now holding a position that outrivals the most magical transformation in their wildest fairy tale. Indeed, he always has the air of being faintly surprised.

Of course it is his dreaminess that hard-bitten advisers like Goebbels and Goering have capitalized. He is so transparently honest when he is weaving visions of his own creation that nobody can doubt him. He is ready, like a medieval saint, to go through fire and water for his beliefs. I am not certain that he would not actually like being tortured; he would love playing the martyr, if only for his own mental delectation. He sees himself as a crusader; he thinks the whole time of saving mankind. That is why he reaches such a stage of mystical exaltation when he talks about saving the world from Bolshevism. It is the old Siegfried complex once again. Just as the young German knight of old went out into the dim, dark forests to kill dragons, so he goes out to exterminate Bolshevism.


pp. 7-9

An Interview With General Otto Ernst Remer
Conducted by Stephanie Schoeman
Translated by Mark Weber

...

Q: What was Hitler like socially?

A: He was a perfect host. When I was at Hitler's headquarters in the Wolfsschanze, I often observed that he would always pay special attention whenever anyone was scheduled to arrive as a guest.

And before he would meet a guest at the train station, he would always make sure that everything was just right in the headquarters.

He would check to see if the carpet did not match the silverware, or whatever, and he would drive everyone crazy making sure that everything was tastefully done in preparation for the guest. He had a real personal concern for his guests.

Hermann Geisler, Hitler's architect, wrote a book about Hitler. [This is Ein anderer Hitler, a memoir]. It's a fantastic book that you ought to read. He [the author] was a really great guy, and he could imitate very well, especially Robert Ley [head of the Reich Labor Serviced And Hitler knew this. Hitler would urge him to imitate Ley's way of speaking. And he would [humorously] say: "My Führer, I can't do that, he'll put me in a concentration camp." "Ah, go ahead," Hitler would jokingly say, "I'll get you back out again." And that's what Hitler was like. And he would imitate Ley. [Remer imitates the imitation of Ley.] And Hitler would laugh so hard that tears came to his eyes.

Q: What about Hitler's love life?

A: Hitler had no time for that. He always said that he didn't have time for a wife. And Eva Braun played her part very well. No one knew about their relationship, which was kept private. She handled herself well when there were many guests around.

I don't think he was a great lover. I don't think so. He had a cousin, Geli Raubal, during the period of struggle before he became Chancellor. Hitler wasn't able to pay enough attention to her, but she loved him, and she took her own life. I think she was the only woman that Hitler really loved.

Q: Did Hitler father any children?

A: Nonsense. He didn't want any children.

Hitler thought of himself as a representative of the nation, and he rejected anything in his personal life that was inconsistent with that image. He always thought of himself as a statesman and he accordingly made very sure that his image was completely consistent with what the people expected of him.

Q: And didn't the people want their F�hrer to have children?

A: Yes, but for that he would have had to marry and become a husband. But he always said that he didn't have time for that.

I was with Hitler when he was just moving into his new headquarters, which was protected with concrete seven meters thick. And he entered his new bedroom where there was an ordinary soldier's bed there for him, except that it had two mattresses on it. And when he saw that, he curtly asked: Since when does a soldier sleep on two mattresses?" An adjutant present looked embarrassed, and then Hitler said: "You can take away one of them." And that's what Hitler was like. He did not ask for any special consideration for himself.

He paid for the entire defense perimeter around his general staff headquarters with his own money. He never received a penny of salary from the government. And until the end of the war, he paid for the defense perimeter himself, including the six kilometers of roadway, which cost a lot.

Hitler was a wealthy man, particularly from royalties from the sale of his book, Mein Kampf, which sold more than a hundred million copies. But he never took a penny of government money.
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http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v10/v10p108_Schoeman.html

For a first-hand, unbiased view of Hitler and Mussolini, as well as numerous interesting anecdotes about European politics circa 1933-1938 that you won't find in any history books, I would highly recommend two books by British reporter G. Ward Price: "I Know These Dictators" and "Year of Reckoning". Price was so scrupulously fair in his reporting from Germany that Hitler said he was his favorite reporter.

Hermann Goering's wife Emmy said that Hitler didn't believe in horoscopes, this is contrary to what has been reported numerous times on the History channel. The History channel always portrays Hitler as obsessed with Astrology. I read this information in Emmy Goering's 1972 book My Life With Goering