Traudl Junge回憶錄的英文版已經發行
Until the Final Hour:
Hitler's Last Secretary
by Traudl Junge; edited by Melissa Muller


Synopsis
Traudl Junge was 22 years old and dreamt of a career as a ballerina, until the "opportunity of her life" beckoned. Adolf Hitler appointed this young secretary to his private office and 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. "I was 22 and I didn't know anything about politics, it didn't interest me", she claims. It was apparently only after the war that this young woman began to realise what had happened and the horrible reality began to dawn on her. She was wracked with guilt for "liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived". She'd found him a "pleasant older man and a good employer". Her journal, written in 1947, recounts her mostly mundane time typing, making tea, until came the coldness of the bunker, the building sense of despair and doom as the war progressed. The journal has a preface and an afterword, co-written by Melissa Muller, giving the background to the story, the rest of Traudl's unhappy life and her feelings of guilt over her naive actions.

About the Author
Traudl Junge was a brewer's daughter born in 1920 in Munich. From the end of 1942 until April 1945 she was Hitler's private secretary. In 1942 she married one of Hitler's staff, Hans Junge who was killed a year later. After the war she was sent to a Russian prison camp and later returned to Germany to work as a secretary and a sub-editor.
She died on February 10th, 2002 shortly after publication of her book.