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Rochus Misch, who served asAdolf Hitler's devoted bodyguard for most of the second world war and was the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader's final hours in his Berlin bunker, has died aged 96.
Burkhard Nachtigall, the man who helped Misch ghostwrite his 2008 memoir, said on Friday that Misch died on Thursday in Berlin after a short illness.
Misch remained proud to the end about his years with Hitler, whom he affectionately called "boss".
In a 2005 interview, Misch recalled Hitler as "a very normal man" and gave a riveting account of the German dictator's last days before he and his wife Eva Braun killed themselves in their bunker in Berlin.
Misch said, "he was no brute. He was no monster. He was no superman."
