Rochus Misch

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Former officer of the Hitler's private army the LSSAH and from 1940 till 1945 one of Hitler's bodyguards, FHQ secretary and the last witness of the Hitler and Goebbels suicides.

Misch his father died in the first world war before Rochus was born and his mother died when he was three years old. At the age of fifteen he enrolled in a façade painting company as a trainee. Where he completed the training with exellence.

In 1937 he joined the SS-Verfügungstruppe ,which later became the Waffen SS. In 1939 he was badly wounded when a bullet hit his lungs. On recommandation of Wilhelm Mohnke, Misch was assigned in a command of Hitler`s private bodyguards.

After the war Misch was held for nine years in Soviet captivity, where he was exposed to torture and questioning.

He lived until his death in Berlin. Misch was widely reported in the media as being the last surviving former occupant of the Führerbunker when he died in September 2013.