Similarly, Hitler's personal secretary Traudel Junge wrote her biography which was made into a popular movie Downfall. Everyone who has seen the Hitler parodies on Youtube has seen part of Downfall.
Even in the shadow of the death camps, both Soviet and Allied authorities realized that Traudel Junge was a nobody doing her job typing papers and taking dictation, nothing more. She was never prosecuted, a lived the rest of her life quietly in West Germany.
Liberals imagine themselves to be the type of heroes where they would stand in the very path of the tanks and soldiers in order to try and stop the evils of Nazism.
That’s what this woman is being punished for, for not being that type of imagined hero.
It’s not nuts. As secretary, she would likely have seen documents indicating that Jews were being killed in the camp. She’s an accessory to atrocities and needs to pay.
Traudel Junge was a true believer. She was in the bunker until the end and witnessed the marriage of Hitler to Eva Braun. One of the last things Braun did was ask Junge to speak to her friends and relatives if she managed to get home.
Junge appeared in several documentaries about WW2 in her later years, recounting the experiences as the secretary of Adolf Hitler.
Yes. She wasn’t in charge in creating policies and obviously as a teenager had power over no one, while also living under a brutal one-party dictatorship.