Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary - Softcover

Junge, Traudl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753820552 ISBN 13: 9780753820551

Publisher: Phoenix, 2005

Synopsis

'To have such an uncomplicated, unaffected witness present at some of the key defining moments of the 20th century was fortunate for historians...her testimony rings absolutely true, when other politically motivated accounts of the last days of Hitler do not' Andrew Roberts

Traudl Junge was 22 years old and dreamt of a career as a ballerina, until the 'opportunity of her life' beckoned and she was appointed as Adolf Hitler's secretary. From 1942 until his death she was at his side in the bunker, typing his correspondence, his speeches and even his last private and political will and testament. It was only after the war that the horrible reality of Hitler's regime began to dawn on her, and she became racked with guilt for 'liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived.' Her journal, written in 1947, is a startling eyewitness account of Hitler's court during its final years, and of the building sense of doom as the war progressed.

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Review:

This memoir is a unique historical document, naive in some respects but trustworthy in its testimony and oddly thrilling in its unknowing progress to a terrible doom. (TIMES (2.4.05) )

Book Description:

The tie-in with the Oscar-nominated film DOWNFALL, portraying the last days of Hitler

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0753820552
• ISBN 13: 9780753820551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Muller Melissa