Until the Final Hour : Hitler's Last Secretary

by Junge, Traudl

• ISBN13: 9781559707565
• ISBN10: 1559707569
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-09
• Publisher: Arcade Pub

Summary

"Traudl Junge was 22 years old and dreamt of a career as a ballerina when the 'opportunity of her life' beckoned. Adolf Hitler appointed her to his private office and from 1942 until his death she was at his side, typing his correspondence, his speeches and even his last private and political will and testament." "'I was 22 and I didn't know anything about politics, it didn't interest me,' she claims. Her journal, written in 1947, recounts the mostly mundane time she spent typing and making tea, culminating in a building sense of despair and doom as the war progressed. It was only when the war was over that the true horror of what she had been involved in began to dawn on her. She was wracked with guilt for 'liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived', having found him a 'pleasant older man and a good employer'. Her journals are accompanied by a preface and an afterword, co-written by Melissa Muller, which give some background to her story, filling us in on the rest of Traudl's unhappy life and her feelings of guilt over her naive actions."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Traudl Junge was born in Munich in 1920. From the end of 1942 until April 1945 she was Hitler's private secretary. In 1942 she married one of Hitler's staff, Hans Junse, who was killed a year later. After the war she was sent to a Russian prison camp and later returned to Germany. She died on February 10, 2002

Table of Contents

Foreword	1	(4)
Traudl Junge
A Childhood and Youth in Germany	5	(22)
Melissa Muller
My Time with Adolf Hitler -- written in 1947	27	(189)
Traudl Junge
Confronting Guilt -- A Chronological Study written in 2001	216	(30)
Melissa Muller
Acknowledgements	246	(1)
Index	247