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| Last Hitler bodyguard Rochus Misch dies | Last Hitler bodyguard Rochus Misch dies |
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| A former bodyguard of Adolf Hitler who witnessed the Nazi dictator's final hours has died in Germany aged 96. | A former bodyguard of Adolf Hitler who witnessed the Nazi dictator's final hours has died in Germany aged 96. |
| Rochus Misch was the last survivor from Hitler's bunker in Berlin. | Rochus Misch was the last survivor from Hitler's bunker in Berlin. |
| The former SS man had operated the telephones in the bunker and had proudly reminisced about his wartime duties for the "boss". | The former SS man had operated the telephones in the bunker and had proudly reminisced about his wartime duties for the "boss". |
| He had called Hitler "a very normal man... he was no brute, he was no monster", according to the Associated Press news agency. | He had called Hitler "a very normal man... he was no brute, he was no monster", according to the Associated Press news agency. |
| The news agency said that in his interview he stayed away from the central questions of guilt and responsibility, saying he knew nothing of the murder of six million Jews and that Hitler never brought up the Final Solution in his presence. |