Just a little something for perspective the next time you encounter one of those "Serial killer seemed like such a nice man, neighbors say" stories:
History has condemned him as the megalomaniac who brought death and misery to millions.
But for one woman, the name Adolf Hitler evokes a smile not a shudder.
She is Rosa Mitterer, who worked as a maid for the Fuhrer at his mountain retreat in Bavaria in the 1930s.
[. . .]
And her verdict on her former master: '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.'
[. . .]
Part of her duties involved sorting out the fan letters and presents that were delivered in their thousands to the house.
'There were cigars, jars of jam, flowers, pictures,' she recalled. 'We gave most of them away to poorer peasant families nearby on Hitler's orders.'
They weren't Jewish peasant families, I'm guessing.
