Adolf Hitler's personal secretary during World War II
Spouse
Hans Hermann Junge
(m. 1943; died 1944)
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.
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sleep in his bed while in the bunker. According to Hitler's secretary TraudlJunge, this affection was not shared by Eva Braun, Hitler's companion, who...
while he stayed in the Führerbunker. Together with Gerda Christian and TraudlJunge, Manziarly was personally requested by Hitler to leave the bunker complex...
W. Averell Harriman, Sir Arthur Harris, Alger Hiss, Brian Horrocks, TraudlJunge, Toshikazu Kase, Curtis LeMay, Vera Lynn, Hasso von Manteuffel, Bill...
his plan for a new government under Karl Dönitz. Hitler's secretary TraudlJunge recalled that he was reading from notes as he dictated the testament...
dramas;[clarification needed] since then, she has appeared in films, including as TraudlJunge, Adolf Hitler's secretary, in the Academy Award-nominated 2004 film Downfall;...
break from her employment for Hitler and her work was taken over by TraudlJunge. In mid-1943, Gerda Christian returned to Hitler's staff as one of his...
the son of Goebbels until later. Later that day, Hitler's secretary TraudlJunge stated that while she was with the children in the Führerbunker they...
In a 1974 episode of The World at War, Linge and Hitler's secretary, TraudlJunge, describe Hitler's last minutes in the bunker. Linge explains that Hitler...
this,’ she wailed, and she simmered a bone in his soup now and then. — TraudlJunge, Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary (2004) All accounts by...
husband's side. In the Führerbunker she confided to Hitler's secretary TraudlJunge, that "I would rather have my children die, than live in disgrace, jeered...
Chuikov ended with no agreement. According to Hitler's personal secretary TraudlJunge, Krebs returned to the bunker complex looking "worn out, exhausted"....
was drafted to serve as a field medic in the German Army. According to TraudlJunge, one of Hitler's private secretaries, both of Schaub's feet had been...
memoirs, TraudlJunge, Hitler's private secretary, described Hewel as something like Hitler's majordomo.[full citation needed] According to Junge, Hewel...
smoking, and flirting with the orderlies. According to Hitler's secretary, TraudlJunge, Hitler explained to her at length why he detested smoking, but she would...
into ten main groups on 1 May 1945. Mohnke's group included secretary TraudlJunge, secretary Gerda Christian, secretary Else Krüger, Hitler's dietician...
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