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Hitler's Last Aide Dies

Fritz Darges still thought Fuhrer 'greatest man who ever lived'

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(Newser) – The last surviving member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle died this week, at 96, and historians hope his soon-to-be released memoirs will silence once and for all claims from revisionists that Hitler wasn't aware of the Holocaust. Fritz Darges was present at most of Hitler's conferences until 1944, when he was ordered to fight on the eastern front after enraging the Fuhrer by joking that the Luftwaffe, not him, should swat a fly pestering the leader.

Darges, who sold cars after the war, died still believing that Hitler was "the greatest man who ever lived," the Telegraph reports. "We all dreamed of a greater German empire," he told a German newspaper shortly before his death, recalling the Nazi leader as "warm-hearted" and a genius. "That is why I served him and would do it all again now."

Fritz Darges, left, with Adolf Hitler in 1943.
Fritz Darges, left, with Adolf Hitler in 1943.   (Wikipedia)
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hybrid
Oct 30, 09 6:54 AM CDT
Well lets just hope that we can reconize evil faster the next time it pops up. Even after all the horror germany faced after WWII this man still thinks Hitler was great, Disgusting Reply
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RockyPneumonia
Oct 30, 09 7:12 AM CDT
hybrid, I suspect you didn't mean this, but my tying Hitler's "greatness" to its effect on Germany, you're implying that if Germany had won, it would have justified the Nazis' actions.
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Michael_CT
Oct 30, 09 7:51 AM CDT
Hey Hybrid, have you been introduced to Robert Mugabe? Look him up next time you are in the famine-ravaged, health-crippled, economically destroyed country of Zimbabwe.
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hybrid
Oct 30, 09 8:18 AM CDT
no i did not mean that so, thanks? Yes i do know who mugabe is, I just wish the people could do something, Also look up the zimbabwe currency and you will be amazed at how fast economys can falter.
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hybrid
Oct 30, 09 8:20 AM CDT
@rocky i think that the use of the word even and after no never mind i see your point, should have worded that diff.
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