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Hitler's Last Secretary - A Firsthand Account of Life with Hitler - cover

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Hitler's Last Secretary - A Firsthand Account of Life with Hitler

Traudl Junge

Publisher: Arcade Publishing

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A firsthand account of Adolf Hitler from the woman who worked at his side, stayed with him in the bunker, and was featured in the film Downfall.   In 1942 Germany, Gertraud “Traudl” Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of twenty-two, she became private secretary to Adolf Hitler and served him for two and a half years, right up to the very end.   Junge observed the intimate workings of Hitler’s administration: She typed his correspondence and speeches—including Hitler’s public and private last will and testament—and ate her meals and spent evenings with him. She was close enough to hear the bomb intended to assassinate Hitler in the Wolf’s Lair—and to smell the bitter almond odor of Eva Braun’s cyanide pill in Hitler’s bunker and ultimate tomb.   In this intimate, detailed, and chilling memoir, Junge explains what it was like to spend everyday life with a human monster.
Available since: 09/01/2011.
Print length: 272 pages.

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