Hitlers Last Witness

Author : Rochus Misch
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1473837014
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Last Witness written by Rochus Misch and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of Hitler’s personal bodyguard presents “convincing first-person testimony of the dictator’s final desperate months, days and hours” (Huffington Post). 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 Berghoff terrace, he watched Eva Braun organize parties, observed Heinrich Himmler and Albert Speer, and monitored telephone conversations from Berlin to the East Prussian Headquarters on July 20, 1944—after the attempt on Hitler’s life. As the Allied forces closed in, Misch was drawn into the Führerbunker with the last of the faithful. He remained in charge of the bunker switchboard as his duty required, even after Hitler committed suicide. Misch knew Hitler the private man. His memoirs offer an intimate view of life in close attendance to Hitler and of the endless hours deep inside the bunker. They also provide new insights into military events—such as Hitler’s initial feeling that the 6th Army should pull out of Stalingrad. Shortly before he died, Misch wrote a new introduction for this English-language edition.

Author : Rochus Misch
Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 1848327498
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Last Witness written by Rochus Misch and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 FÙhrerbunker with the last of the 'faithful'. As defeat approached, he remained in charge of the bunker switchboard as his duty required, even after Hitler committed suicide. Misch knew Hitler as the private man and his position was one of unconditional loyalty. His memoirs offer an intimate view of life in close attendance to Hitler and of the endless hours deep inside the bunker; and provide new insights into military events such as Hitler's initial feelings that the 6th Army should pull out of Stalingrad. Shortly before he died Misch wrote a new introduction for this first-ever English-language edition. The book also contains new introduction by Roger Moorhouse.

Author : Gertraud Junge
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559707282
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Until the Final Hour written by Gertraud Junge and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an insider's perspective on the final days of the Third Reich, the recollections of a woman who became Hitler's secretary in 1942 sheds new light on his day-to-day life, character, and habits.

Author : Joachim Fest
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312423926
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Hitler's Bunker written by Joachim Fest and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the final days of World War II in a study of Hitler's final days in the bunker and the torment in Germany's cities and towns as the Third Reich collapsed under the weight of American, British, French, and Russian forces.

Author : Benjamin Carter Hett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199708592
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Hitler written by Benjamin Carter Hett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage (the transcription of Hitler's full testimony is included.) At the time, Hitler was still trying to prove his embrace of legal methods, and distancing himself from his stormtroopers. The courageous Litten revealed his true intentions, and in the process, posed a real threat to Nazi ambition. When the Nazis seized power two years after the trial, friends and family urged Litten to flee the country. He stayed and was sent to the concentration camps, where he worked on translations of medieval German poetry, shared the money and food he was sent by his wealthy family, and taught working-class inmates about art and literature. When Jewish prisoners at Dachau were locked in their barracks for weeks at a time, Litten kept them sane by reciting great works from memory. After five years of torture and hard labor-and a daring escape that failed-Litten gave up hope of survival. His story was ultimately tragic but, as Benjamin Hett writes in this gripping narrative, it is also redemptive. "It is a story of human nobility in the face of barbarism." The first full-length biography of Litten, the book also explores the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic and the terror of Nazi rule in Germany after 1933. [in sidebar] Winner of the 2007 Fraenkel Prize for outstanding work of contemporary history, in manuscript. To be published throughout the world.

Author : Heinz Linge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628730765
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Hitler to the End written by Heinz Linge and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heinz Linge worked with Adolf Hitler for a ten-year period from 1935 until the Führer’s death in the Berlin bunker in May 1945. He was one of the last to leave the bunker and was responsible for guarding the door while Hitler killed himself. During his years of service, Linge was responsible for all aspects of Hitler’s household and was constantly by his side. He claims that only Eva Braun stood closer to Hitler over these years. Here, Linge recounts the daily routine in Hitler’s household: his eating habits, his foibles, his preferences, his sense of humor, and his private life with Eva Braun. In fact, Linge believed Hitler’s closest companion was his dog Blondi. After the war Linge said in an interview, “It was easier for him to sign a death warrant for an officer on the front than to swallow bad news about the health of his dog.” Linge also charts the changes in Hitler’s character during their time together and his fading health during the last years of the war. During his last days, Hitler’s right eye began to hurt intensely and Linge was responsible for administering cocaine drops to kill the pain. In a number of instances—such as with the Stauffenberg bomb plot of July 1944—Linge gives an excellent eyewitness account of events. He also gives thumbnail profiles of the prominent members of Hitler’s “court”: Hess, Speer, Bormann and Ribbentrop amongst them. Though Linge held an SS rank, he claims not to have been a Nazi Party member. His profile of one of history’s worst demons is not blindly uncritical, but it is nonetheless affectionate. The Hitler that emerges is a multi-faceted individual: unpredictable and demanding, but not of an otherwise unpleasant nature.

Author : Freiherr Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Bunker with Hitler written by Freiherr Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his private bunker seventy-five years ago. The lone survivor of Hitler's Berlin bunker tells the story of the final days of the Third Reich.

Author : Gerhard Boldt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780722117354
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Last Days written by Gerhard Boldt and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Traudl Junge
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611453232
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Last Secretary written by Traudl Junge and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942 Germany, Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of twenty-two she became private secretary to Adolf Hitler and served him for two and a half years, right up to the bitter end. Junge observed the intimate workings of Hitler's administration, she typed correspondence and speeches, including Hitler's public and private last will and testament; she ate her meals and spent evenings with him; and she was close enough to hear the bomb that was intended to assassinate Hitler in the Wolf's Lair, close enough to smell the bitter almond odor of Eva Braun's cyanide pill. In her intimate, detailed memoir, Junge invites readers to experience day-to-day life with the most horrible dictator of the twentieth century. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author : Fyodor Parparov
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586483668
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hitler Book written by Fyodor Parparov and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This eyewitness account was compiled for one man's eyes only: those of Josef Stalin. One of the first biographies of Adolf Hitler, it derives from the testimony of his two closest assistants, interrogated at the Soviet leader's command, in order to understand the psychology of his greatest enemy - and to be certain that he was dead."--BOOK JACKET.