I Was Hitlers Chauffeur

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Erich Kempka served as Hitlers personal driver from 1934 until the Fuhrers suicide in 1945. His candid memoirs provide a unique account that reaches a climax in the dark days in the bunker beneath Berlins shattered streets. Kempka begins by describing his duties as a member of Hitlers staff in the early years escorting Hitler around Europe & other top Nazis such as Albert Speer & Field Marshal Kesselring on tours of the front line. The core of his memoir however covers the period spent in the Fuhrerbunker including accompanying Hitler on his final trip to the front line in March 1945 & the chaotic weeks that followed. Kempkas fascinating narrative covers the major events in the regimes downfall including Goring & Himmlers efforts to seize power & negotiate a truce with the Allies & Hitlers marriage to Eva Braun before they committed suicide. Hitlers last order to Kempka was that he has ready enough petrol to cremate their bodies. The memoirs conclude with Kempkas desperate escape from Berlin more than 800 km through enemy-occupied Germany to his family only to be arrested by American personnel shortly afterwards. He was interrogated before acting as a witness at Nuremburg.