| rdfs:comment | - Gertraud "Traudl" Junge (born Gertraud Humps; 16 March 1920 – 10 February 2002) was Adolf Hitler's youngest personal private secretary, from December 1942 to April 1945.
- Traudl Junge-Humps (München, 16 maart 1920 - München, 10 februari 2002) was secretaresse van Adolf Hitler van 1942 tot april 1945. Junge werd geboren als Gertraud Humps in München; ze was de dochter van de brouwmeester en reserve-officier (luitenant) Max Humps. In 1943 trouwde ze met de SS-officier Hans-Hermann Junge (1914-1944). Na de zelfmoord van Hitler vluchtte ze uit Berlijn. In 1947 schreef zij haar ervaringen op en een halve eeuw later is dit verhaal openbaar gemaakt. In 2000 leerde Traudl Junge de schrijfster Melissa Müller kennen, die haar voorstelde aan de Oostenrijkse kunstenaar André Heller. Hij maakte een documentaire over Traudl Junge en ze maakte na meer dan vijftig jaar haar manuscript openbaar. In 2002 kwam het boek van Melissa Müller over Traudl Junge: Bis zur letzten Stu
- Gertraud "Traudl" Humps was born in Munich, the daughter of a master brewer and lieutenant in the Reserve Army, Max Humps and his wife Hildegard (née Zottmann). She had a sister, Inge, born in 1923. As a teenager she thought of becoming a ballerina. Traudl Junge began working for Hitler in December 1942. She was the youngest of his private secretaries. In June 1943, she married Hans Hermann Junge, an SS officer who was killed in 1944, leaving her a widow.
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| abstract | - Traudl Junge-Humps (München, 16 maart 1920 - München, 10 februari 2002) was secretaresse van Adolf Hitler van 1942 tot april 1945. Junge werd geboren als Gertraud Humps in München; ze was de dochter van de brouwmeester en reserve-officier (luitenant) Max Humps. In 1943 trouwde ze met de SS-officier Hans-Hermann Junge (1914-1944). Na de zelfmoord van Hitler vluchtte ze uit Berlijn. In 1947 schreef zij haar ervaringen op en een halve eeuw later is dit verhaal openbaar gemaakt. In 2000 leerde Traudl Junge de schrijfster Melissa Müller kennen, die haar voorstelde aan de Oostenrijkse kunstenaar André Heller. Hij maakte een documentaire over Traudl Junge en ze maakte na meer dan vijftig jaar haar manuscript openbaar. In 2002 kwam het boek van Melissa Müller over Traudl Junge: Bis zur letzten Stunde. Hitlers Sekretärin erzählt ihr Leben uit. Hierop werd de film Der Untergang gebaseerd in 2004. Traudl Junge stierf vlak na de uitgifte van het boek van Melissa Müller op 11 februari 2002 aan longkanker in een Münchens ziekenhuis.
- Gertraud "Traudl" Junge (born Gertraud Humps; 16 March 1920 – 10 February 2002) was Adolf Hitler's youngest personal private secretary, from December 1942 to April 1945.
- Gertraud "Traudl" Humps was born in Munich, the daughter of a master brewer and lieutenant in the Reserve Army, Max Humps and his wife Hildegard (née Zottmann). She had a sister, Inge, born in 1923. As a teenager she thought of becoming a ballerina. Traudl Junge began working for Hitler in December 1942. She was the youngest of his private secretaries. Junge said decades later, "I was 22 and I didn't know anything about politics, it didn't interest me", also stating that she felt great guilt for "liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived". She later acknowledged, "I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend. I deliberately ignored all the warning voices inside me and enjoyed the time by his side almost until the bitter end. It wasn't what he said, but the way he said things and how he did things." In June 1943, she married Hans Hermann Junge, an SS officer who was killed in 1944, leaving her a widow. Junge witnessed the last days in the Führerbunker and her memoirs were a major source for the screenwriters of Downfall. On 1 May Junge left the Führerbunker with a group led by Waffen-SS Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke. Also in the group were Hitler's personal pilot Hans Baur, the chief of Hitler's Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD) bodyguard Hans Rattenhuber, secretary Gerda Christian, secretary Else Krüger, Hitler's dietician Constanze Manziarly and Dr. Ernst-Günther Schenck. Junge, Christian and Krüger made it out of Berlin to the River Elbe, but most of the others still alive were found by Soviet troops on 2 May, hiding in a cellar off the Schönhauser Allee. The Germans who had been in the Führerbunker and captured by the Soviet army were handed over to SMERSH for interrogation about what had happened in the bunker during the closing weeks of the war. Although Junge had reached the Elbe she was unable to reach the western Allied lines, so she went back to Berlin, getting there about a month after she had left, hoping to take a train to the west when they began running again. On 9 July, after living there for about a week under the alias "Gerda Alt" she was arrested by two civilian members of the Soviet military administration and was kept in Berlin for interrogation. After many interrogations, she was later released in the Soviet sector of Berlin, and with some help from her mother she managed to enter the Allied controlled Germany. Junge was held and interrogated for a short time by US soldiers about her time in the Führerbunker during the first half of 1945. She was then freed and allowed to integrate into postwar Germany. The 2002 release of her autobiography Until the Final Hour, co-written with author Melissa Müller and describing the time she worked for Hitler, brought media coverage. She was also interviewed for the 2002 documentary film Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (some scenes were included in the Downfall prologue and epilogue) which drew much attention. Junge died from cancer in Munich on 10 February 2002 at the age of 81 and she was given global celebrity for a few days, reportedly having said shortly before her death, "Now that I've let go of my story, I can let go of my life."
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