HIST 1002 Lecture Notes - Traudl Junge, Heinrich Himmler, Small Talk
22 Nov 2012
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Seeds of the cold war in 1945. 22 when she began with hitler 1942. Wrote hitler"s will just before he died. Arrested by soviets right after the war 1945. Spent the most of her life in munich. Australia wouldn"t even let her in as a tourist: film 1. Junge thought hitler was handsome, nice and polite. 1942 she was 1/3 hitler"s personal secretaries. Thought it was interesting to be on the top. Junge thought she was pretty but dumb but not gorgeous just nice. No one took his hatred of jews seriously. Junge didn"t think the work camps were death camps. Himmler would tell stories about how he organized concentration camps: made junge think it was a normal way to arrest people because of political crimes. No one knew about it officially in hitler"s circle. No one wanted to find out more about it. Someone asked if hitler knew about the jews.
