Fritz Darges

Mahatma coat

One of Hitlers Aides, Died recently, apparently he didnt want to have his memoirs published til after his death

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."

LOoks like it might be a good read :D:D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6461171/Memoirs-of-Hitler-aide-could-finally-end-Holocaust-claims.html#at#ixzz0VQ78NdEa

Dr Strange

Pfft, talking about serious lack of humour. Then again he was a vegetarian.

Fuinseog

has anyone read it yet?

i never heard of him until now. he doesn't crop up in Untergang, or does he?

Mahatma coat

I dunno Preusse, by all acounts the man was a Great Gas:D

Morlar

You can just picture a bunch of guys sitting around in some eastern front encirclement, minus -40, low on ammunition and supplies, enduring the shelling while waiting to be overrun. Talking to each other about what they did in life and how they ended up there, gets to Darges' turn 'So how did you end up here?', 'Well, funny story, there was this one time in the bunker. . . . "

Fuinseog

according to the obituary in today's IT the SS was part of the Nazi party.

Morlar

Fuinseog wrote: »

according to the obituary in today's IT the SS was part of the Nazi party.

I think in the very early days they were, but not for very long so it is a bit of an odd assertion to make. As far as I know by the mid 1930's they recruited from the wehrmacht & the RAD and of course by early to mid war they had foreign recruitment.

Mahatma coat

ah yeah, but it'd be fairly likely that if you subscribed to the dotrine enough to join the SS then it wouldnt be a stretch to joinin the party as well

Dr Strange

Mahatma coat wrote: »

ah yeah, but it'd be fairly likely that if you subscribed to the dotrine enough to join the SS then it wouldnt be a stretch to joinin the party as well

Not necessarily. My great uncle was in a SS unit fighting mainly in the Balkans but he wasn't a party member.

gizmo555

Fuinseog wrote: »

according to the obituary in today's IT the SS was part of the Nazi party.

What the obituary actually says is:

After school, he trained as an export clerk but in 1933 volunteered for the SS, the Schutzstaffel, Hitler’s praetorian guard elite within the Nazi Party.

This is, regardless of how you view its later development, a 100% accurate description of what the SS was in 1933.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2009/1107/1224258281257.html

Fuinseog

Mahatma coat wrote: »

ah yeah, but it'd be fairly likely that if you subscribed to the dotrine enough to join the SS then it wouldnt be a stretch to joinin the party as well

Jochen Peiper was hollywood's image of a ardent nazi and was aide to himmler for a time, but never joined the party.

kowloon

Were the SS not originally part of the SA?

Edit: Looked it up, and it's confirmed.

SS members didn't need to be party memebers any more than SA memebers would have, Rohm was pretty insistant about that. NDSAP and SA had a fairly strange relationship.