The last person to see Hitler alive dies at 96

His 2008 book “The Last Witness” (“Der Letzte Zeuge”) made it onto the bestseller list and brought Misch much attention.
An English translation is due to be published next month, Stehle said.
Misch trained as a house painter before joining the SS and, from 1940, was part of Hitler’s escort. He returned to working as a painter after his captivity.
He told news site Spiegel online in 2007 that at his first meeting with the dictator, he had thought: “He wasn’t a monster, he wasn’t an Uebermensch, he stood opposite me like a perfectly normal gentleman, and spoke kind words.”