Hitler was charming, says the former maid to his Bavarian mountain retreat. Rosa Mitterer, 91, broke her long silence as a servant to Hitler. When she was 15, she took up the position as a maid. Her sister Anni worked for Hitler in the 1920′s.
“He was a charming man, someone who was only ever nice to me, a great boss to work for. You can say what you like, but he was a good man to us,” she said.
“She (Anni) said he needed a housemaid and I would fit the bill,” she said. “I remember so clearly the first day I spoke to him in the kitchen. I said I was Anni’s sister and that made him smile, because Anni was his favourite. I only ever knew Hitler as a kindly man who was good to me.”
“There were cigars, jars of jam, flowers, pictures,” she said. “We gave most of them away to poorer peasant families nearby on Hitler’s orders.”
Part of her duties involved sorting out the fan letters and presents that were delivered in their thousands to the house.
Undoubtedly, those poor were only good Aryan families.
Mitterer also met Hitler’s mistress Eva Braun. She did not have the same compliments for her.
“She was not so pretty close up,” Mitterer said
