Rochus Misch, who served as Adolf Hitler’s devoted bodyguard for most of the Second World War and was the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader’s final hours in his Berlin bunker, has died. He was 96.

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.

The site of the bunker where Adolf Hitler watched his Third Reich implode in the final months of the Second World War was officially marked for the first time today by a historical group seeking to demystify one of the capital’s most historically charged places.