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   opened the door I don't remember, Guensche or Linge. They opened   
   the door, and I naturally looked, and then there was a short   
   pause and the second door was opened… and I saw Hitler lying on   
   the table like so," Misch said, putting his head down on his   
   hands on his living-room table.   
      
   "And Eva lay like so on the sofa with knees up, her head to him.   
   I don't remember now if Hitler sat on the sofa or on a chair   
   next to it." Eva Braun had died of poisoning and Hitler had shot   
   himself.   
      
   The silence and anticipation then gave way to chaos, when Misch   
   ran up to the chancellery to tell his superior the news and then   
   back downstairs, where Hitler's corpse had been put on the floor   
   with a blanket over it.   
      
   "Then they bundled Hitler up and said 'What do we do now?'"   
   Misch said. "As they took Hitler out … they walked by me about   
   three or four meters away, I saw his shoes sticking outside the   
   sack."   
      
   After the bodies were carried outside, an SS guard ran down the   
   stairs and tried to get Misch to join the spectacle outside as   
   the two were covered in gasoline and set alight.   
      
   "He said 'The boss is being burned. Come on out,'" Misch   
   recalled. But instead Misch hastily retreated deeper into the   
   bunker to talk with comrade Hentschel.   
      
   "I said 'Do you think we're going to be killed?' and he said   
   'Why do you think that?'" Misch said. "I said 'I saw the Gestapo   
   upstairs in the … chancellery and it could be that they'll want   
   to kill us as witnesses.'"   
      
   But Misch stuck to his post — taking and directing telephone   
   calls with Goebbels as his new boss until May 2, when he was   
   given permission to flee.   
      
   "Everybody was upstairs in the … chancellery, there were things   
   to eat and drink there, downstairs in the bunker there was   
   nothing. It was a coffin of concrete," he said. "Then Goebbels   
   finally came down and said, 'You have a chance to live. You   
   don't have to stay here and die.'"   
      
   Misch grabbed the rucksack he had packed and fled with a few   
   others into the rubble of Berlin. Working his way through   
   cellars and subways, Misch bumped into a large group of   
   civilians seeking shelter in one tunnel.   
      
   "Two were playing music," he said, remembering how incongruous   
   the scene seemed to him. "I came out of the death bunker of   
   concrete, and here were two people playing music on guitar."   
      
   Misch later heard German voices above through an air ventilation   
   shaft and climbed up to try his luck. But the voices came from   
   about 300 soldiers who had been taken prisoner, and the Soviet   
   guards grabbed him as well.   
      
   Following the German surrender May 7, Misch was taken to the   
   Soviet Union, where he spent the next nine years in prisoner of   
   war camps before being allowed to return to Berlin in 1954. He   
   reunited with his wife Gerda, whom he had married in 1942 and   
   who died in 1997, and opened up a shop.   
      
   In 2005, Sitting at his table next to a pile of mail from "fans"   
   to whom he sent autographed photographs of himself in full SS   
   uniform outside the Wolf's Lair, he leafed through his well-   
   thumbed photo album remembering his days with the most infamous   
   people in recent history.   
      
   "Here is Hitler — my boss — Eva, a friend of Eva …," he said.   
   "Very normal. Not like what is written."   
      
   He turned the page to photos of Braun in the idyllic setting of   
   the Berghof, Hitler's Bavarian mountain residence, and lit up as   
   he remembered a moment from those days.   
      
   "This small black dog comes running and gets under the fence,   
   and Hitler said, 'My God, what is this? Racial mixing?'"   
      
   http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/06/hitler-   
   bodyguard/2775459/   
      
         
      
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