My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Deaths: Hitler's Body Guard-- Part 2
Mr. Misch died September 5th and said he never knew anything about the Final Solution. He will have a book coming out in October titled "The Last Witness."
Born in present-day Poland at age 20 he joined the SS and later the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler-- a Berlin based unit founded as Hitler's own personal body guard.
He was later attached to the regular German Army and was in the vanguard of the Polish Blitz where he was wounded.
Then he and Johannes Hentschel were assigned as Hitler's personal body guards with additional duties as assistants. They were often with the leader at his Alpine retreat in Berchtesgaden and at Wolf's Lair.
He spent his the last 8-10 days of the war underground and was a prisoner of the Soviets for nine years. The stories this man could tell.
--GreGen
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