In 1942 Germany, 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 bitter end. Junge observed the intimate workings of Hitler’s administration, she typed correspondence and speeches, including Hitler’s public … public and private last will and testament; she ate her meals and spent evenings with him; and she was close enough to hear the bomb that was intended to assassinate Hitler in the Wolf’s Lair, close enough to smell the bitter almond odor of Eva Braun’s cyanide pill. In her intimate, detailed memoir, Junge invites readers to experience day-to-day life with the most horrible dictator of the twentieth century.
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She was interviewed in the ‘world at war’ series. This book fills in the areas behind that interview, placing the interview into the context of who she is, how she got to be in the bunker on that last day. Today, I wonder who the counter part to her is, waiting to tell her story, after trump is dragged from his bunker.
Very good read. True story.
I really enjoyed it. A story told by a person who was there. She told the story for what it was nothing more.
A very good 1st hand account.
I enjoyed the History & some lessons learned about that timeframe in Germany during WWII.
I would recommend this to anyone interested in History.
Look inside Hitler’s inner circle – but rather superficial – easy read
Informative book with insite to world history
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