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Misch, Rochus, 1917-2013

LC control no.no2008123638
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Personal name headingMisch, Rochus, 1917-2013
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Birth date19170729
Death date20130905
Place of birthAlt Schalkowitz, Germany
Place of deathBerlin, Germany
Profession or occupationBodyguard
Found inDer letzte Zeuge, 2008: t.p. (Rochus Misch) jkt. (b. 1917; served as Hitler's bodyguard, courier, and telephonist, 1940-1945)
Telegraph (online), viewed Sept. 6, 2013 (Rochus Misch; b. July 29, 1917, Oppeln, Upper Silesia; d. Sept. 5, 2013; Hitler's wartime bodyguard, who saw the Nazi leadership up close and claimed Britain sought a truce in 1941)
New York times (online), viewed Sept. 9, 2013 (in obituary published Sept. 6: Rochus Misch; b. July 29, 1917, Alt Schalkowitz, Upper Silesia (now part of Poland); d. Thursday [Sept. 5, 2013], Berlin, aged 96; Hitler's wartime bodyguard, who was widely described as the last living witness to the Führer's final days in his underground bunker as the Soviet Army closed in on Berlin)
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