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Something wrong?She typed the dictator's last will and testament, then stayed in the bunker until the end - the secretary who saw Hitler's final hours and spent decades afterward trying to reckon with what she'd been too young, or too incurious, to see.
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, Now that I've let go of my story, I can let go of my life.
Of course, the terrible things I heard from the Nuremberg Trials, about the six million Jews and the people from other races who were killed, were facts that shocked me deeply.
We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them.
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Spouse: Hans Hermann JungeAbout this person
Gertraud Junge was twenty-two when she became Adolf Hitler's private secretary in December 1942. Arrested in June 1945, she was interrogated by both Soviet and American forces, then released to rebuild a quiet life in West Germany. For decades she worked as a secretary and said little. In old age she published her memoirs, confessing not to active complicity but to a failure of curiosity - a young woman who claimed ignorance of the atrocities unfolding around her, yet blamed herself for never seeking the truth when reports surfaced. Her account, published as *Until the Final Hour*, became the backbone of the 2004 film *Downfall*.
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