With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Hitler's Valet
by Linge, Heinz
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1602398046
- ISBN 13
- 9781602398047
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About This Item
Skyhorse Publishing, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Modest date stamp upper left FEP and bumping to a corner and and spine top and slight damage to back board top Dust Jacket has minor wear on the edges that is difficult to see in the scans. The remarkable memoir of a man who was by Hitler's side from 1935 to 1945. Heinz Linge worked with Adolf Hitler for a ten-year period from 1935 until the Führer's death in the Berlin bunker in May 1945. He was one of the last to leave the bunker and was responsible for guarding the door while Hitler killed himself. During his years of service, Linge was responsible for all aspects of Hitler's household and was constantly by his side. He claims that only Eva Braun stood closer to Hitler over these years. Here, Linge recounts the daily routine in Hitler's household: his eating habits, his foibles, his preferences, his sense of humor, and his private life with Eva Braun. In fact, Linge believed Hitler's closest companion was his dog Blondi. After the war Linge said in an interview, "It was easier for him to sign a death warrant for an officer on the front than to swallow bad news about the health of his dog." Linge also charts the changes in Hitler's character during their time together and his fading health during the last years of the war. During his last days, Hitler's right eye began to hurt intensely and Linge was responsible for administering cocaine drops to kill the pain. In a number of instances-such as with the Stauffenberg bomb plot of July 1944-Linge gives an excellent eyewitness account of events. He also gives thumbnail profiles of the prominent members of Hitler's "court": Hess, Speer, Bormann and Ribbentrop amongst them. Though Linge held an SS rank, he claims not to have been a Nazi Party member. His profile of one of history's worst demons is not blindly uncritical, but it is nonetheless affectionate. The Hitler that emerges is a multi-faceted individual: unpredictable and demanding, but not of an otherwise unpleasant nature. 12 b&w illustrations
Synopsis
Translation of: Biz zum Untergang. Müchen : Herbig, 1980. Includes bibliographical references.
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- Bookseller
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024732
- Title
- With Hitler to the End: The Memoirs of Hitler's Valet
- Author
- Linge, Heinz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1602398046
- ISBN 13
- 9781602398047
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 224
- Keywords
- History World War II Adolf Hitler Heinrich Heinz Linge Memoirs Nazi
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