Hitler's Italian waiter

From the Times of London:

The former mayor of [an Italian] mountain village has revealed after more than 50 years that he was once “Hitler’s Italian waiter”.

Salvatore Paolini, 79, says that he was the only Italian member of staff at Hitler’s mountain lair, the “Eagle’s Nest”, at Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps. There he served Hitler and his senior officers and discovered that the dictator rarely drank but liked to indulge his fondness for puddings and cream cakes. . .

Other Nazi leaders were less abstemious. Hitler once spotted Hermann Goering, the head of the Luftwaffe, helping himself to a huge piece of roast ham served with peas. “I heard Hitler say in a low voice: ‘I didn’t know that pigs ate their own flesh.’

Posted by David on June 8, 2003 10:00 PM