Summaries

Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.

Traudl Junge was Adolf Hitler's private secretary, from Autumn 1942 until the collapse of the Nazi regime. She worked for him at the Wolfsschanze in Obersalzberg, on his private train and, finally, in his bunker in the besieged capital. It was Traudl Junge, who Hitler dictated his final testament to. In her first ever on-camera interview, 81-year-old Junge talks about her unique life. In the spring of 2001, Andre Heller succeeded in convincing Traudl Junge how valuable it is to record her unique memories. Fifty-six years after the end of the Second World War, an important eyewitness reveals her experiences to us. What she saw and heard turned her into an furious opponent of National Socialism, an opponent, who is still painfully aware and seems incapable of forgiving the young girl she once was--for her naivete, ignorance, and her liking for Hitler.—Sujit R. Varma

Details

Keywords
  • secretary
  • shooting oneself
  • biographical documentary
  • national socialism
  • suicide by shooting one's self in the head
Genres
  • War
  • Biography
  • Documentary
Release date Mar 21, 2002
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) PG
Countries of origin Austria
Language German
Production companies Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft

Box office

Gross US & Canada $378382
Opening weekend US & Canada $9216
Gross worldwide $378382

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 30m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 1.78 : 1

Synopsis

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