{"id":32649,"date":"2013-09-07T07:31:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T03:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=32649"},"modified":"2013-09-07T07:31:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T03:31:55","slug":"hitlers-bodyguard-who-was-one-of-the-first-men-to-find-the-fuhrer-dead-in-his-bunker-dies-aged-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=32649","title":{"rendered":"Hitler’s bodyguard who was one of the first men to find the Fuhrer dead in his bunker dies aged 96"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rochus<\/a>The man who served as Adolf Hitler’s bodyguard has died aged 96.<\/p>\n

Rochus Misch was by the Nazi leader’s side for five years throughout the Second World War.<\/p>\n

It is thought he died on Thursday following a short illness. Misch travelled with Hitler from bunker to bunker throughout the 1940s.<\/p>\n

Following a German defeat on January 16, 1945, Misch and the rest of Hitler’s personal staff moved into the F\u00fchrerbunker in Berlin.<\/p>\n

He was told not to leave the bunker for any significant period of time until the end of the war and handled all of the direct communication from the underground area.<\/p>\n

After Hitler killed himself on April 30 1945, Misch was one of the first to find the Nazi leader’s body.<\/p>\n

He fled the bunker and was captured by the Russian Red Army – but was released in 1954 and lived in Berlin, only two miles away from the bunker, until he died.<\/p>\n

Before his death he spoke several times about his experience of working with the Nazi leader.<\/p>\n

In a 2005 interview with the Associated Press, Misch said Hitler, who he referred to as ‘boss’, was ‘a very normal man’.<\/p>\n

Misch said, ‘He was no brute. He was no monster. He was no superman.’<\/p>\n

He told newspaper Berliner Kurier that, with most of the letters he receives asking for autographs, it was ‘no longer possible’ to reply because of his age.<\/p>\n

He said: ‘[The letters] come from Korea, from Knoxville, Tennessee, from Finland and Iceland – and not one has a bad word to say.’<\/p>\n

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