Hitler's Bodyguard Too Old, Tired to Answer Fan Mail

Have you sent a letter expressing your admiration to Hitler's last living bodyguard recently? If you have and you've yet to get a response, don't despair -- Rochus Misch hasn't been reunited with his old boss just yet. It's just that at 93 years old, Misch just doesn't have the energy to respond to the mountains of fan mail he still receives regularly.

(Reuters) - More than 65 years after World War Two, Adolf Hitler's last surviving bodyguard says that he can no longer respond to the continuous deluge of fan mail he receives from around the world, because of his advanced age.

Rochus Misch is 93 and uses a walking frame to move around his apartment. He told the Berliner Kurier tabloid that, with most of the letters he receives asking for autographs, it was "no longer possible" to reply because of his age.

"They (letters) come from Korea, from Knoxville, Tennessee, from Finland and Iceland -- and not one has a bad word to say," said Misch, who is believed to be the last man alive to have seen Hitler and other top-ranking Nazis in the flesh.

[Reuters]