| Hitler's
Secretary Traudl Junge |
REAL NAME: Humps, Gertraud
BORN: 16 Mar 1920, München
DIED: 10 Feb 2002, München
GRAVE LOCATION: München: Nordfriedhof (28)
Daughter of a brewer
in Munich. In 1942 she became one the secretaries of Adolf Hitler
and she worked at his headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia.
In 1943 she married one of his assistants, Hans Junge,
who died a year later in Normandy.
Junge was present in
the Führerbunker in Berlin when Hitler married Eva Braun and
she typed out his testament before he committed suiicide.
She was caught by the Russians, but they let her go because she
was young an unimportant. She left for her family at Ammersee in
April 1946. There she was held and terrorized by the Americans for
a few weeks also.
Afterwards she worked
as a secretary and a scientific journalist.
A short time before she died of cancer she published "Bis zur
letzten Stunde" ("Until the Last Hour"), based on
notes that she made during the war.
She claimed that she didn't know any Jews were killed until after
the war and that Hitler hardly ever used the word Jew. But she did
say that she felt guilt ever after she saw a plague Sophie Scholl
in Munich.
She died a few hours
after a documentary about her life with Hitler shown at the movie
festival in Berlin.
In 2004 the very succesful movie Der Untergang or Downfall was mainly
based upon her story.
Basing his script on historian Joachim Fest's "The Downfall: Inside
Hitler's Bunker," writer-producer Bernd Eichinger put the story
together through Junge's memoirs, "Until the Final Hour: Hitler's
Last Secretary" .
In the movie Bruno Ganz protrayed a elderly, grandfatherly Hitler
who loved children, dogs.
Downfall is easily one of the greatest National Socialist propganada
movies of our time: even though the Writer alledgely never wanted
it to be. We urge all Nazi's to view it.
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