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Post by Marc Rikmenspoel » 27 Jan 2007, 06:19

Note that according to the caption to this photo in Verweht sind die Spüren, the man whose face can be seen between Bauer and Darges is listed as RKT Willi Hein, while the man in white at right is Hans Weerts (who variously commanded 1. and 4./SS-PR 5 around this time).

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is alive darges????

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Post by VON THERMANN » 16 Feb 2007, 05:06

is alive Fritz Darges......?
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Post by jan willem stokkers » 16 Feb 2007, 11:21

yess!

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Post by Mark Costa » 16 Feb 2007, 15:20

According Martin Bormann's letter to his wife 7-18-44, Darges was dismissed for "he was inattentive, was talking about other matters with some officers -- he's no longer in favor with the Fuhrer -- he made himself disagreeably conspicious. The Fuhrer got annoyed and said he would be transferred to the front."

I am not sure where the FLY episode supposedly came from.

source: The Bormann Letters 1954

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Post by Griffin brigade » 16 Feb 2007, 22:15

The Fly episode is an account of his dismissal given by Darges himself.

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Post by VON THERMANN » 17 Feb 2007, 00:44

he lives in germany?????

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Post by Mark Costa » 17 Feb 2007, 06:32

Griffin Brigade:

Can you give me the source of the Darges story? I would love to read this. Thanks.

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Post by Griffin brigade » 17 Feb 2007, 20:22

The fly story was told to a friend and i about 4 years ago at a Veterans meeting in Germany by Darges himself.

He was writing his memoirs for publication but i'm not sure that he has completed them due to his age and ill health,

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Post by Violeta » 19 Feb 2007, 14:03

Two questions regarding Darges:

1) What were his functions as Bormann and (later) Hitler's adjutant?

I have read this somewhere in the Internet, but don't know to which "move itself" it refers:

"[For the details of the move itself Hitler gave orders and instructions to
Bormann or to Field Marshal Keitel, who transmitted them to the individuals
or services concerned. Each one had to ensure that they continue their work
during the journey. The lion's share of work was done by the two aids_decamp,
Fritz Darges and Otto Gu"nsche. They organised everything, arranging the
transportation of materials, checking the timetable of the special train
which was always standing by wherever Hitler was, and giving instructions to
the personnel who were to remain in the camp. Everything was accomplished in
the greatest secrecy and as quickly as possible.]

Source: pp 45.Last witness in the bunker (Gertrud Junge)

2) Was he ever on trial after the war?

Thanks in advance,
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Post by Wiesel » 26 Mar 2008, 19:18

Hi,

I am a nephew of Fritz Darges. Uncle Fritz is well. I have visited him last week. Here is an actual photo of him.

Regards.

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Post by Michael Miller » 26 Mar 2008, 21:58

He looks great, and very lively. Thanks so much for sharing this image, and please give him my best regards.

Oh, and welcome to the Forum!


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Post by Bernhard23 » 29 Oct 2009, 03:16

Fritz Darges died on Sunday, 25 October 2009 aged 96.
Shortly before he died, reporters of the German newspaper BILD met with him in his house in Celle (Lower Saxony). In an artictle entitled "Hitlers letzter Adjutant tot" they write that he lived alone, his wife, a medical doctor having passed away three years ago. His state of health had declined, he did not hear well, he did not see well.
His mind was alert. His memory was alive.
Until his last breath he did not say a bad word about Adolf Hitler.
When Fritz Darges was asked whether he would do everything again as he had done, he replied: "Ja. Unser Traum war doch ein großdeutsches Reich.“ ("Yes. Our dream, after all, was a Greater German Empire.")
Fritz Darges wrote down his memoirs. They shall be published now after his death.
R.I.P.

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Post by Dili » 30 Oct 2009, 04:36

Memoirs of Hitler aide could finally end Holocaust claims
The memoirs of the last SS adjutant to Adolf Hitler are to be published in a move historians say could cast away the last shred of doubt over his personal involvement in the Holocaust.
By Allan Hall in Berlin
Published: 6:30AM GMT 30 Oct 2009
Adolf Hitler with Fritz Darges Photo: WALTER FRENZ

Fritz Darges died at the weekend aged 96 with instructions for his manuscript about his time spent at the side of the Führer to be published once he was gone.

Darges was the last surviving member of Hitler's inner circle and was present for all major conferences, social engagements and policy announcements for four years of the war.

Experts say his account of his time as Hitler's direct link to the SS could discount the claims of revisionists who have tried to claim the German leader knew nothing of the extermination programme. Right-wing historians have claimed the planing for the murder of six million Jews was carried out by SS chief Heinrich Himmler.

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".

Darges died on Saturday still believing in the man who engineered the Jewish Holocaust as "the greatest who ever lived." His memoirs will be published now in accordance with his will.

Darges trained as an export clerk but joined the SS in April 1933. His zeal for National Socialism soon earmarked him for great things and by 1936 he was the senior adjutant to Martin Bormann, Hitler's all-powerful secretary.

"I first met the Führer at the Nuremberg party rally in 1934," he said in an interview given to a German newspaper shortly before his death at his home in Celle. "He had a sympathetic look, he was warm-hearted. I rated him from the off."

(...)

"I had to organise all the finances. I had the feeling that Eva's sister was interested in me but I didn't think I should become the brother-in-law of the Fuehrer.

"As adjutant I was responsible for his day-to-day programme. I must, and was, always there for him, at every conference, at every inter-service liaison meeting, at all war conferences.

"I must say I found him a genius."

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."

"We all dreamed of a greater German empire," he said. "That is why I served him and would do it all again now," said the man who had a career after the war selling cars.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6461171 ... laims.html

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Post by Fait Accompli » 30 Oct 2009, 15:27

I find it odd that historians believe that Darges's manuscript could provide key evidence that Hitler ordered the deaths of six million Jews when Darges went to his grave evidently still full of admiration for Hitler. Why would he spill spill the beans now?

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Post by mühlenkamp » 30 Oct 2009, 15:48

I do not think that there will be anything interesting in this biography,
if he tells us not more about Eva Braun and Gretl Braun than:
"I had the feeling that Eva's sister was interested in me but I didn't think I should become the brother-in-law of the Führer."
In this forum there is much more speculated about these relationships.
But we will see.........................

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