{"id":5484,"date":"2013-09-11T22:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T22:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2013-09-11T22:15:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T22:15:38","slug":"last-bodyguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgethomasclark.com\/last-bodyguard\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Bodyguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I study painting like young Fuehrer but as he did abandon studio to protect Fatherland.  Stalin\u2019s hordes are occupying other half of Poland in 1939 when someone shoots me in chest.  Go home, superiors say.  No, I can still serve.  They agree and I soon earn introduction to Fuehrer who speaks politely and allows me to guard and travel with him.<\/p>\n<p>\tThis is great time.  Fuehrer\u2019s in prime and Wehrmacht is stomping France and Balkans and rest of Poland and rolling toward Moscow.  I\u2019m with greatest man in greatest war ever.  When Russia counterattacks and America enters, Fuehrer becomes less happy.  On cold night I pass as he gazes at candlelit painting of Frederick the Great, seeking comfort and inspiration.  I respectfully move past sacred communion.  <\/p>\n<p>\tPeople lie he\u2019s killing millions of Jews.  He is not or wouldn\u2019t be Fuehrer.  I certainly know nothing of this.  I only see wonderful man and wife Eva dead together last day April 1945.  Fuehrer\u2019s head is on table and Eva\u2019s next to him on sofa.  I often think about this.  Eight years Russians torture me in prisons and camps.  You can\u2019t change truth, I say, and decades later enter heaven knowing I served special man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I study painting like young Fuehrer but as he did abandon studio to protect Fatherland. Stalin\u2019s hordes are occupying other half of Poland in 1939 when someone shoots me in chest. Go home, superiors say. No, I can still serve. 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