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獨裁者另一面 前衛士出書指希特勒愛說笑話
中央社╱中央社 2008-06-25 23:27
(中央社台北二十五日電)媒體報導,二次世界大戰堪稱是史上最血腥的戰役,即便如此,德國獨裁者希特勒仍會找時間與親信講笑話取樂。
英國「每日郵報」報導,納粹元首希特勒的一名衛士撰寫的新回憶錄「最後目擊者」(The Last Witness)不久將在英國發行,書中將揭露希特勒扮丑角的一面。
這本回憶錄的作者名叫米希,二戰期間曾在柏林的碉堡中擔任電話接線員;書中也描述希特勒自殺後的場景。
現年九十歲的米希回憶說,殺人無數的希特勒「會講的笑話不多」。
米希說:「據說元首特別喜歡幾個笑話,一再重複。」
米希並未在新書發行前透露希特勒最愛的笑話,不過據說希特勒最愛說的笑話,便是拿趾高氣昂的空軍元帥戈林大加嘲弄一番。
戈林常常為自己設計新的軍服,甚至頒給自己新的勳章。
希特勒曾說:「有一天,戈林太太走進臥室,發現丈夫對著內褲揮舞著元帥的權杖。她就問,『赫曼(戈林),親愛的,你在做什麼』。戈林回答說,『我在把我的內褲升官成為外褲』。」
蘇聯領袖史達林在二戰結束時派人編纂了名為「希特勒之書」的檔案,其中便包括希特勒發揮幽默感的例子。
檔案中包括:納粹邪惡的宣傳部長戈培爾如何呈報希特勒最新的惡劣謠言,以及虛榮愛炫燿的戈林上床睡覺時會將勳章別在睡衣上。
根據檔案報告:「希特勒非常喜歡這個故事,所以他令人用金箔與銀箔製造勳章,上頭寫一些誇張的詞句褒揚勇敢,然後將勳章頒贈給戈林。」
還有一次希特勒與親信曾徹夜大笑,只因為他說了幾個關於集中營囚犯的笑話。
米希的新書中將提到這些笑話;新書將於下週在德國發行。
米希昨天說,雖然戰時希特勒還笑得出來,但是在早期他更愛說笑話。
他說:「我從沒看過他大笑。我自己不能聲稱希特勒有幽默感。不過這可能是因為,事實上我到開戰後才與他熟識。」
他說:「我從幾位『老前輩』那裡得知,戰爭時期的希特勒跟戰爭前是完全不同的人。」
米希是碉堡內唯一獲准帶槍的士兵,一九三七年加入黨衛隊,當時他二十歲。一九三九年他在波蘭受重傷,痊癒後重新分配至希特勒的總理辦公室任職。
米希永遠都記得在碉堡的最後時光,特別是一九四五年四月三十日希特勒開槍自戕的情景。
米希說:「他死後一陣寂靜。我們等了一會,大概二十分鐘。我不記得誰先打開希特勒房間大門。我真的很好奇,向前踏出幾步,後來有人打開第二道門。」
他說:「就在這時,第二道門打開,我看見希特勒,死了,躺在椅子上。他老婆埃娃.布勞恩,衣著完整倒在沙發上。她身穿黑色禮服,皮膚則是白色。」
米希後來遭到俄軍俘虜,在蘇聯的勞改營待了八年才回到德國。他的回憶錄年底將在英國發行。
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1028813/Hitler-comedian-The-Nazi-leaders-bodyguard-reveals-different-dictator.html
Hitler the comedian: The Nazi leader's bodyguard reveals a different side to the dictator
By Allan Hall
Last updated at 6:15 PM on 23rd June 2008
Adolf Hitler found time amid the bloodiest war in history to crack jokes with his cronies.
Hitler the comedian is one side of the Fuhrer painted in a new memoir called ‘The Last Witness‘ by one of the Nazi leader's bodyguards.
The book, by Rochus Misch - who also served as telephonist in the Berlin bunker - also depicts the scene after the dictator committed suicide.
Hitler, the mass killer, “had a small fund of jokes,“ recalled Misch, who is now 90.
“The boss was said to be particularly fond of a couple jokes and told the best ones over and over,“ he said.
While Misch did not divulge Hitler's favourite jokes ahead of the book's publication, one joke that Hitler liked to tell was at the expense of his pompous Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering.
Goering was a man forever designing himself new uniforms and giving himself new orders and decorations.
“One day,“ Hitler used to say, “Mrs. Goering came into the bedchamber and found her husband waving his Field Marshall‘s baton over his underwear.
“‘Hermann, darling, what are you doing?‘ she enquired.
“‘I am promoting my underpants to overpants!‘“
Several instances of Hitler‘s humour ended up in a dossier called simply "The Hitler Book" which was compiled for Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the end of WW2.
It relates how Joseph Goebbels, the evil propaganda minister, told Hitler a latest scurrilous rumour: that the immensely vain Goering went to bed wearing medals on his pyjamas.
“Hitler liked the story so much,” according to the report “that he ordered Hoffmann to make some medals out of gold and silver foil as well as a bombastic citation for bravery to be presented to Goering.”
Another time Hitler and his henchmen roared with laughter all night long after "The Boss" cracked jokes about concentration camp inmates.
The same evening he saw that his official photographer Heinrich Hoffmann had drunk too much.
“Don‘t stand too near the fire Heini,“ said Hitler. “You‘ll catch alight!“
Such jokes are among those expected to feature in Misch's book, which will be published in Germany next week.
Misch said yesterday that although Hitler still laughed during wartime, he had been an even bigger joker in earlier days.
“I never saw Hitler laugh deeply. I could not personally state that Hitler had humour,"he said.
"That might have been however because of the fact that I became acquainted with him only after the start of the war.
"As I knew from the ‘old timers‚‘ Hitler in wartime was a completely different Hitler from before the war."
Misch describes himself as “a last living piece of history“ and his modest flat in Berlin is filled with photos and scrapbooks of his service for a man who murdered millions.
The only soldier allowed to carry a weapon in the bunker, Misch joined the SS in 1937 aged 20 and was seriously wounded in 1939 in Poland. He recovered and was re-assigned to Hitler’s chancellery.
It was the memories of the last days in the bunker that have stayed with him throughout his life, particularly April 30 1945 when Hitler shot himself.
“There was perfect silence after his death,“ he said. “We waited. We waited maybe 20 minutes. I still don't remember who first opened the door to Hitler's rooms. I was really curious and came forward a few steps. Then somebody opened the second door.
“And it was then, as the second door opened, I saw Hitler, dead, lying on a chair. Eva Braun, his wife, on the couch completely clothed. In a dark dress and white, white skin. She was lying back.“
He was captured by the Russians, spent eight years in Soviet labour camps before returning to Germany. His book will be published in the UK at the end of the year.