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|title=Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard

|author=Rochus Misch

|rating=4.5

|genre=Autobiography

|summary=I am proud to declare an interest in all things Holocaust, one of the key areas of which was the last days of Hitler – the Downfall, if you like, way before youtube satirists. So this book, from the man who for some unspecified years was the last eye-witness to have been in the Fuhrerbunker at the end of the Nazi regime, was always going to be a great read. It remained that even after the foreword dismissed its own book, pointing out differences here to the canon of thought about the timings etc of April/May 1945, and declaring the author somewhat naïve in not being so aware, circumspect and authoritative about the major points of WWII.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848327498</amazonuk>

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|title=The Making of Home

|summary=Nick Lloyd is a historian. Well, actually he's a lecturer in ''Defence Studies'' at Kings College London - based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham, Wiltshire.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670920061</amazonuk>

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~~|title=Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz~~

~~|author=Thomas Harding~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Biography~~

|summary=This dual biography concerns, as the title makes clear, two men. One was from an inherently German, rich Jewish family – they had a powerboat so he could waterski on the lake at their country cottage – who fled the rise of the Nazis early in the 1930s, and got away moderately lightly, only losing properties and a large and successful medical career. The other was from an inherently German family, who signed up for First World War service before his age, but only really wanted to be a farmer and family man, yet who ended up running probably history's worst slaughterhouse. Both had a connection and a shared destiny that was largely unknown before this book was researched, there's a chance that both of them had the blood of one man and only one man directly on their hands from WWII service, and both of them – again, as the title makes clear – are given the dignity of the familiar, first name throughout this incredible book.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434022365</amazonuk>~~

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