Traudl Junge, who wrote the book Until the Final Hour that was the basis for the 2004 film Downfall was the personal secretary of which historical figure?
"Traudl now that she was a widow. Hans Hermann Junge Hans Hermann Junge (11 February 1914 – 13 August 1944) born in Preetz / Holstein was a German SS officer who served as aide-de-camp and valet to Adolf Hitler. He was married to Traudl Junge, Hitler's last private secretary. He was killed in combat during World War II in August 1944. Junge was born in Preetz in Schleswig-Holstein Province in February 1914. He joined the ""Schutzstaffel"" (SS) and in 1934 volunteered for the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. On 1 July 1936 he became a member of the"
"Im toten Winkel Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (titled Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary in English) is a 2002 Austrian documentary directed by André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer. ""Blind Spot"" is a 90-minute interview of Traudl Junge, the last personal secretary of the Third Reich dictator Adolf Hitler. Urged to tell her story by her friend, Austrian author Melissa Müller, Junge agreed to make a documentary with André Heller, an Austrian director and artist with Jewish family members who died in Nazi death camps. Two excerpts of this work, including the introduction and conclusion, are featured in the movie ""Der"
"Germany in 1949. Knappe emigrated to the United States with his wife, Lieselotte (""Lilo""; nee Brecht), who died in 2002, and their children, and settled in Ohio. There he wrote his memoir, ""Soldat"". (""Soldat"" is German for ""soldier"".) The Oscar-nominated film ""Downfall"" (2004), about German dictator Adolf Hitler's last days, was based in part on Knappe's memoirs. Siegfried Knappe Siegfried Knappe (15 January 1917 – 1 December 2008) was an officer in the German Army (""Heer"") during World War II. Towards the end of the war, Knappe was stationed in Berlin, where he gave daily briefings at the Führerbunker. As"
"became Chief of Main office I: ""Persönliche Angelegenheiten des Führers"" (Personal Affairs of the Führer) of the ""Kanzlei des Führers"". In that job, Bormann handled much of Hitler's routine correspondence. Before being chosen as a private secretary for Hitler, Traudl Junge worked for Bormann in that office after she came to Berlin. On 20 April 1945, during the Battle of Berlin, Bormann, Admiral Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Dr. Theodor Morell, Dr. Hugo Blaschke, secretaries Johanna Wolf, Christa Schroeder, and several others were ordered by Hitler to leave Berlin by aircraft for the Obersalzberg. The group flew out of Berlin on different"
"never invited again. The incident was recounted by Traudl Junge (Hitler's last private secretary) in """" and ""Until the Final Hour""-her husband, aide-de-camp to Hitler, Hans Hermann Junge, was present. Following the first major American air attack on Vienna, Baldur von Schirach sent his family to Bavaria to the country house Aspen Stone. At the end of the war Henriette's husband attempted to avoid capture, posing as a writer (""Dr. Richard Falk""). But he soon decided to surrender to the Americans, doing so in June 1945. He was tried and convicted at Nuremberg, being sentenced on 1 October 1946, for"
"to Linge. Linge was one of many soldiers, servants, secretaries, and officers who moved into the Reich Chancellery and ""Führerbunker"" in Berlin in 1945. There he continued as Hitler's chief valet and protocol officer and was one of those who closely witnessed the last days of Hitler's life during the Battle of Berlin. He was also Hitler's personal military orderly. Linge delivered messages to Hitler and escorted people in to meet with Hitler. In addition, after Hitler's personal physician Theodor Morell left Berlin on 23 April, Linge and Dr. Werner Haase administered to Hitler the prepared medicine which had been"
"40 years, and his fall because of his assistant. It portrays Guillaume as in conflict by spying on Brandt while growing to admire him. Günter Guillaume Günter Guillaume (1 February 1927 – 10 April 1995), was an intelligence agent for East Germany's secret service, the Stasi, in West Germany. Guillaume became West German chancellor Willy Brandt's secretary and caused his downfall. Guillaume was born in Berlin. He was conscripted as a Flakhelfer in 1944 and later joined the Nazi Party. In 1956, he and his wife Christel emigrated to West Germany on Stasi orders to penetrate and spy on West"
"They had a son and two daughters. Her husband died in 2000. She is portrayed in the 2017 British film ""Darkest Hour"" by Lily James where she is portrayed as Churchill's secretary in 1940. In reality she did not start working for Churchill until 1941. In the film, her brother was said to have died during the retreat to Dunkirk. This is fictional. Elizabeth Nel Elizabeth Shakespear Nel (née Layton; 14 June 1917, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England – 30 October 2007, Port Elizabeth, South Africa) was a personal secretary to Winston Churchill from 1941 to 1945. Elizabeth Layton was"
"is portrayed by actor Thomas Limpinsel in Oliver Hirschbiegel's 2004 German film ""Downfall"". In Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's """" (1977), he is played by Hellmut Lange. In the 1971 Eastern Bloc co-production ""Liberation V: The Final Assault"", he was portrayed by East German actor Otto Busse. Heinz Linge Heinz Linge (23 March 1913 – 9 March 1980) was an SS officer who served as a valet for German dictator Adolf Hitler. Linge was present in the ""Führerbunker"" on 30 April 1945, when Hitler committed suicide. Linge was born in Bremen, Germany. He was employed as a bricklayer prior to joining the SS"
"Joseph Patrick Tumulty Joseph Patrick ""Joe"" Tumulty (pronounced TUM-ulty) (May 5, 1879 – April 9, 1954) was an American attorney and politician from New Jersey. He was a leader of the Irish Catholic political community. He is best known for his service, from 1911 until 1921 as the private secretary of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Tumulty was born on May 5, 1879 in Jersey City, New Jersey to middle-class Roman Catholic parents Philip and Alicia (Feehan) Tumulty. He attended St. Bridget's School, and graduated from Saint Peter's College, New Jersey in 1901. Tumulty was active in Democratic state politics in"
"from source material and the quality of his writing make this book at once gripping and grave."" MacDonogh criticised the 2004 German film Downfall for sympathetic portrayals of Wilhelm Mohnke and Ernst-Günther Schenck. Mohnke was rumoured, but never proven, to have ordered the execution of a group of British POWs in the Wormhoudt massacre near Dunkirk in 1940, while Schenck's experiments with medicinal plants in 1938 allegedly led to the deaths of a number of concentration camp prisoners. In response, the film's director stated he did his own research and did not find the allegations as to Schenck convincing. Mohnke"
"LeHand's work and friendship with Franklin Roosevelt is chronicled in the 2014 documentary film ""The Roosevelts"", directed by Ken Burns. Marguerite LeHand Marguerite Alice ""Missy"" LeHand (September 13, 1896 – July 31, 1944) was private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) for 21 years. According to LeHand's biographer, Kathryn Smith, in ""The Gatekeeper,"" she eventually functioned as White House chief of staff, the only woman in American history to do so. Born into a blue collar Irish-American family in upstate New York, LeHand studied secretarial science in high school, took a series of clerical jobs, and eventually began"
"Dorothy E. Downton Dorothy E. Downton (born November 11, 1946) served as the personal secretary to United States President Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977. Born Dorothy Hessler in Manistee, Michigan in 1946, Downton attended Davenport University. Upon graduating, she began working at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the print division. Downton joined Gerald R. Ford’s congressional staff in 1967. She later served as personal secretary during his time as Vice President and later as President. She also served as President Ford’s personal secretary in his Rancho Mirage office and assisted his 1976 Presidential campaign. Downton continued to serve"
"Gerri Whittington Geraldine ""Gerri"" Whittington (September 11, 1931 – January 24, 1993) was the personal executive secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson, and was the first African-American secretary in the White House. Johnson was famous for working long hours and insisting his assistants worked long hours as well. When John F. Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson became president, he requested a new slate of secretaries. He saw Whittington working in a government office, and requested that his assistant Jack Valenti get her home phone number. Johnson called her unannounced one evening, and requested that she come in that night for"
"his fourth novel was published posthumously. John Stonehouse John Thomson Stonehouse (28 July 192514 April 1988) was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician and junior minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974. More than twenty years after his death, it was publicly revealed that he had been an agent for the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic military intelligence. In 1979, the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and top cabinet members learned from a Czech defector that Stonehouse had been a paid Czech spy since 1962. He had provided secrets about government"
"Julius Schaub Julius Schaub (20 August 1898 – 27 December 1967) was the chief aide and adjutant to German dictator Adolf Hitler until the dictator's suicide on 30 April 1945. Born in 1898 in Munich, Bavaria, Schaub served as a field medic during World War I, during which he injured both of his feet. During the hard times which followed the War, Schaub joined the Nazi Party. After losing his job because of his membership, Hitler hired him as his personal aide, a position he held for 25 years. Schaub took care of Hitler's personal belongings, papers and travel journeys,"
"to the position of ""special ambassador"" and was made Ribbentrop's liaison with Hitler. He spent most of World War II without an official portfolio and once described himself as ""an ambassador to nowhere"". In the later years of the war, as Hitler became more estranged from Ribbentrop, Hewel became Hitler's senior adviser on all foreign policy matters and a member of Hitler's inner circle. Survivors of Hitler's inner circle claimed that Hewel owed his position to his long involvement with the Nazi Party, and because he was one of Hitler's friends. In her memoirs, Traudl Junge, Hitler's private secretary, described"
"Film Festival Amsterdam. The documentary has been shown at several documentary film festivals and by a number of TV broadcasters, including BBC2, ORF and the Swedish network Kunskapskanalen. The film reached the finals in the category of Best TV Programmes Broadcast in Europe in the Prix Europa 2012 competition. The documentary received critical acclaim in several UK newspapers after being broadcast on BBC2 on 23 May 2012. The film won the 2012 Boston Jewish Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary film. According to Zeevi, a personal meeting with Hitler's former secretary, Traudl Junge, in 1999, triggered the film. He"
"name also came up in confessions by Stülpnagel's personal adviser, Caesar von Hofacker, and was included in Goerdeler's papers on a list of potential supporters. The author and cinematographer discovered a memo from Martin Bormann, the head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, dating from 28 September 1944 in which the Chief of the Party Chancellery, and Personal Secretary to Hitler, stated that ""former General Stülpnagel, former Colonel Hofacker, Kluge's meanwhile executed nephew Lieutenant-Colonel Rathgens and other defendants still alive gave all testimony that Field-Marshal Rommel was indeed in the picture; Rommel agreed that he would be at the new government's"
"the FDR Foundation. In 1949 she published her memoirs, ""FDR: My Boss"". In 1955 she joined the staff of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, working with Lyndon B. Johnson, the Senate Majority Leader at the time. She retired ten years later and died in 1984. Grace Tully Grace Tully (9 August 1900 – 15 June 1984) was private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). Grace Tully was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Her father was a businessman and a loyalist to the Democratic Party. He died when she was young, and Tully and her two sisters and brother"
"and Missy LeHand were important figures for FDR during his presidency. Tully frequently accompanied FDR on his trips to Hyde Park and Shangri-La (today called Camp David). When Missy LeHand suffered a stroke in 1941, Grace Tully took over her position as personal secretary to the President. Tully was not an intimate or romantic companion for Roosevelt in the same way as LeHand had been. She continued working for the President until his death in April 1945 at his ""Little White House"" in Warm Springs, where she was present as he died. Then she served as the Executive Secretary for"
"Tobias Lear Tobias Lear (c. 1762 – October 11, 1816) is best known as the personal secretary to President George Washington. Lear served Washington from 1784 until the former-President's death in 1799. Through Lear's journal, we receive the account of Washington's final moments and his last words: "" 'Tis well."" Tobias Lear also served as third President Thomas Jefferson's envoy to Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), and as peace envoy in the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa during the First Barbary War (1801–1805) and the Second Barbary War (1815). He was responsible for negotiating a peace treaty with the Bey of Tripoli"
"did not allow it to move west, he would ask to be relieved of his command. On 22 April 1945, at his afternoon situation conference, Hitler fell into a tearful rage (famously dramatized in the 2004 German film ""Downfall"") when he realised that his plans, prepared the previous day, could not be achieved. He declared that the war was lost, blaming the generals for the defeat and that he would remain in Berlin until the end and then kill himself. In an attempt to coax Hitler out of his rage, General Alfred Jodl speculated that General Walther Wenck's XII Army,"
"by the following actors in film, television and theater productions. Literature Notes Further reading Hans Frank Hans Michael Frank (23 May 1900 – 16 October 1946) was a German war criminal and lawyer who worked for the Nazi Party during the 1920s and 1930s, and later became Adolf Hitler's personal lawyer. After the invasion of Poland, Frank became Nazi Germany's chief jurist in the occupied Poland ""General Government"" territory. During his tenure throughout World War II (1939–45), he instituted a reign of terror against the civilian population and became directly involved in the mass murder of Jews. At the Nuremberg"
"Evelyn Lincoln Evelyn Maurine Norton Lincoln (June 25, 1909 – May 11, 1995) was the personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his election to the United States Senate in 1953 until his 1963 assassination. Lincoln, who was in the motorcade when Kennedy was assassinated, made a point of visiting Kennedy's grave every year on the anniversary of his death. Lincoln was born Evelyn Maurine Norton on a farm in Polk County, Nebraska. Her father was John N. Norton, a member of the United States House of Representatives. In 1930, she married Federal worker Harold W. Lincoln, whom she had"
"Marguerite LeHand Marguerite Alice ""Missy"" LeHand (September 13, 1896 – July 31, 1944) was private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) for 21 years. According to LeHand's biographer, Kathryn Smith, in ""The Gatekeeper,"" she eventually functioned as White House chief of staff, the only woman in American history to do so. Born into a blue collar Irish-American family in upstate New York, LeHand studied secretarial science in high school, took a series of clerical jobs, and eventually began to work for the Franklin Roosevelt vice presidential campaign in New York. Following the Democrats' defeat, FDR's wife Eleanor invited"
"Mussey and, it is on this document that satisfies the claim of Brigadier-General Reuben D. Mussey. Reuben D. Mussey Jr. Reuben D. Mussey Jr. (often called RD Mussey) (May 30, 1833 – May 29, 1892) was a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War and a distinguished lawyer. He was an important recruiter of black men into the United States Colored Troops. Between April 1865 and November 1865, Mussey was President Andrew Johnson's private secretary. Johnson nominated Mussey for appointment to the brevet grade of brigadier general of volunteers, but the U.S. Senate did not confirm the appointment. Mussey"
"his diary. These included meetings with Konstantin von Neurath, the German Foreign Minister, and Otto Meissner, a key aide of Hitler. Even with the force of American diplomacy, Hitler refused Duccis eleventh-hour request that Hirsch's life be spared. His execution by decapitation was carried out at 6:00 am, June 4, 1937. His sister, Katie Sugarman (Kaete Hirsch), died in 2016 having moved to the United States and possibly spared from the Nazi regime due to her family's immediate entry due to her brother. Helmut Hirsch Helmut Hirsch (January 27, 1916 in Stuttgart – June 4, 1937 in Berlin) was a"
"as Ford's personal secretary until 1980, and then moved to Detroit. In 1990, Downton returned to the workforce as Office Administrator for Lionel, LLC. Downton worked for the Associated Press as a secretary for the Michigan bureau from 1995 until her retirement in 2008. Downton's White House files have been recorded and preserved by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Dorothy E. Downton Dorothy E. Downton (born November 11, 1946) served as the personal secretary to United States President Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977. Born Dorothy Hessler in Manistee, Michigan in 1946, Downton attended Davenport University. Upon graduating, she"
"of approximately 20 years. Esther was private secretary to Chris Hani, the South African Communist Party leader, after his 1990 return from Lusaka from 30 years of military exile. Hani was assassinated on 10 April 1993. Barsel's fight for workers' rights was lifelong; as late as 2006, at the age of eighty-one, she was blogging information about the defunct Friends of the Soviet Union. [1] Barsel counted among her friends former South African President Nelson Mandela. Her death came almost three months to the day after joining him and 24 other of his closest friends for his private lunch to"
"sharp interrogation of Hermann Fegelein in the cellar of the Church of the Trinity as to what he knew of Himmler's attempted peace negotiations with the western allies behind Hitler's back. Fegelein was Himmler's SS liaison officer and was shot after Hitler had Himmler expelled from all his posts for the betrayal. Hitler's secretary, Traudl Junge, recounted seeing Müller on 22 April 1945 and claimed she saw him on occasion chatting with Hitler in the bunker; she also added that he (Müller) had assumed Kaltenbrunner's former duties as head of the RSHA. Both Junge and ""Oberscharführer"" Rochus Misch, the telephone"
"Isabel Lyon Isabel Van Kleek Lyon (December 15, 1863 – December 4, 1958) was Mark Twain's secretary for most of his final years. While in this position, she gained significant influence over Twain's personal and business affairs. Twain fired her in 1909 for reasons that remain in dispute. Lyon was born in Tarrytown, New York, to a well-off family. Her father's early death plunged the family into poverty, and Lyon became a governess. She became acquainted with Twain in the 1890s and often played whist with him. In 1902, Twain hired Lyon as a secretary because his wife, Olivia, was"
"actor William Fichtner. John George Nicolay John George Nicolay (February 26, 1832 – September 26, 1901) was a German-born American who served as private secretary to US President Abraham Lincoln and later co-authored a biography of the 16th President. He was a member of the German branch of the Nicolay family. He was born Johann Georg Nicolai in Essingen, Rhenish Bavaria. In 1838, he immigrated to the United States with his father and attended school in Cincinnati. He later moved to Illinois, where he edited the ""Pike County Free Press"" at Pittsfield, and became a political power in the state."