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Rotterdam
8/20/2008 04:13:33 am
Traudl, R.I.P. You deserve it. You were a faithful secretary to the best of your abilities.
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Traudl Junge
Traudl Junge (16 March 1920 – 10 February 2002), born Gertraud Humps, was Adolf Hitler's youngest personal private secretary, from December 1942 to April 1945. An interview with Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge, who worked in the bunker until the very end. Part 1Gertraud "Traudl" Humps was born in Munich (Bavaria), the daughter of a master brewer and lieutenant in the Reserve Army, Max Humps and his wife Hildegard (née Zottmann). She had a sister, Inge, born in 1923. As a teenager she thought of becoming a ballerina. Part 2
"I was 22 and I didn't know anything about politics, it didn't interest me," Junge said decades later, also saying that she felt great guilt for "...liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived." Part 3
In 1945, Junge was with Hitler in Berlin. She typed Hitler's last private and political will and testament in the Führerbunker a day and a half before his suicide. Junge wrote that while playing with the Goebbels children on 30 April, "Suddenly . . . there is the sound of a shot, so loud, so close, that we all fall silent. It echoes on through all the rooms. 'That was a direct hit,' cried Helmut [Goebbels] with no idea how right he is. The Führer is dead now." Excerpt from the 2002 documentary "Blind Spot: Hitler´s Secretary", an interview with Traudl Junge who was Hitler´s private secretary from 1942 to 1945.
Here in the Film "Der Untergang",we see her contemplating her escape from Berlin... Part 2
I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend. I deliberately ignored all the warning voices inside me and enjoyed the time by his side almost until the bitter end. It wasn't what he said, but the way he said things and how he did things. Part 3
Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
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