Friday, September 4, 2009

Holocaust Meet Gulag Meet Hitler's Bodyguard

A strange story of surprising confluences emerges, courtesy of the BBC News.

At 92 years old, one of Hitler's last bodyguards who was with Der Führer and Eva Braun when they committed suicide in the Berlin bunker is asked to share his story.

His estranged daughter however, shares a side of the story that others may find of slightly more interest.

Some might even call it bizarre or perhaps poetic justice.

After spending 9 years in a Soviet Gulag as a German POW, SS Oberscharfuehrer Rochus Misch came home to a Jewish daughter.

To this day he still refuses to accept that his wife was Jewish.

The daughter, Brigitta Jacob-Engelken has made a career as an architect. Among some of her projects; the restoration of local synagogues.


Some of the rest of the story is here.

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