a unit that was founded to serve as Hitler’s personal protection. “It was anti-communist, against Stalin — to protect Europe,” Misch said. “I signed up in the war against Bolshevism ...

a unit that was founded to serve as Hitler's personal protection. "It was anti-communist, against Stalin — to protect Europe," Misch said. "I signed up in the war against Bolshevism, not for ...

Hitler's personal bodyguard Rochus Misch has also offered ... inside one of Hitler's many studies and homes and Misch standing guard. The details of Hitler's last minutes and other details about ...

Born in Silesia in today’s Poland, Misch trained as a house painter before joining the SS and was part of Hitler’s personal guard from 1940. He told news site Der Spiegel online in 2007 that at his ...

Himmler was made head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and would later become the prime mover behind the Holocaust. The story Read tells is divided into three parts: first, the emergence of the ...

A CHILLING album of never-before seen pictures taken by Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard gives a terrifying insight into the Nazi dictator’s rise to power. The snaps document the rise of the ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. ‘[They] hit the prisoners, who were almost as thin as skeletons with a thick stick ...

The accounts show he apparently worked until late in the night and went to sleep as late as 4 a.m. The deserter also described Hitler's attitude toward his personal guards. "Hitler cannot bear to ...

Authorities took away Palij’s U.S. citizenship in 2003, and the former Nazi guard lost an appeals process ... Rommel acknowledged that the job had taken a personal toll on the investigators ...