Traudl Junge | |
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 Junge in 1945 | |
| Born | Gertraud Humps 16 March 1920 |
| Died | 10 February 2002 (aged 81) Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Secretary, sub-editor, science reporter[1] |
| Known for | Adolf Hitler's personal secretary during World War II |
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Gertraud "Traudl" Junge (née Humps; 16 March 1920 – 10 February 2002) was a German editor who worked as Adolf Hitler's last private secretary from December 1942 to April 1945. After typing Hitler's will, she remained in the Berlin Führerbunker until his death. Following her arrest and imprisonment in June 1945, both the Soviet and the U.S. militaries interrogated her. Later, in post-war West Germany, she worked as a secretary. In her old age, she decided to publish her memoirs, claiming ignorance of the Nazi atrocities during the war, but blaming herself for missing opportunities to investigate reports about them. Her story, based partly on her book Until the Final Hour, formed a part of several dramatizations, in particular the 2004 German film Downfall about Hitler's final ten days.
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Compare: Taylor, Charles (31 January 2003). "Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary". Salon. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
[...] she worked as an editor and science journalist, living in a one-room apartment in suburban Munich from the '50s onward.