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The Telegraph reports that Fritz Darges, the last SS adjutant to Adolf Hitler, died recently at age 96, leaving behind instructions for his memoirs to be published posthumously.
The Telegraph suggests Darges, who was with Hitler constantly for the last four years of the war, will attest to hearing him issue instructions regarding the Holocaust.
Mainstream historians believe it inconceivable that Hitler did not issue
verbal directives about the mass killings in Darges' presence. Other
courtiers, such as armaments minister Albert Speer and propaganda chief
Josef Goebbels, had their diaries published post war with no reference to
hearing Hitler ordering the "Final Solution".
Well, maybe. But the paper also relates this story, which makes you question Darges' impartiality, among other things:
But Darges misjudged the "warm-hearted" Führer deeply during
one conference at Rastenburg on July 18 1944 – two days before a bomb plot
nearly succeeded in killing him.
During a strategy conference a fly began buzzing around the room, landing on
Hitler's shoulder and on the surface of a map several times.
Irritated, Hitler ordered Darges to "dispatch the nuisance". Darges
suggested whimsically that, as it was an "airborne pest" the job
should go to the Luftwaffe adjutant, Nicolaus von Below.
Enraged, Hitler dismissed Darges on the spot. "You're for the eastern
front!" he yelled. And so he was sent into combat.
But despite the dramatic end to his time with Hitler, he would still hear
nothing against "the boss."
National Post
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