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She went to school in Munich during the Weimar Republic and at the beginning of National Socialist rule. As a naive young woman, she allowed herself to be blinded by the power of the new regime. Humps soon wanted to move to the center of power of National Socialism, Berlin. So in 1942 she applied to work as an office worker in the "Adjutancy of the Führer." She was selected from several competitors. Then, at the end of January 1943, Adolf Hitler offered her the position of one of his private secretaries, which she immediately accepted. In the Reich capital, the Führer's new secretary met SS officer Hans Hermann Junge, whom she married in July 1943.
A little later her husband joined the Waffen-SS and was killed in Normandy in 1944. The new secretary was a witness to the failed bomb attack against Hitler, which was carried out on July 20, 1944 by Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg at the Führer's headquarters in the "Wolf's Lair." Junge also experienced the collapse of the so-called Third Reich in the spring of 1945 in the immediate vicinity of Hitler in Berlin, which was surrounded by Soviet troops. In April she moved with his closest colleagues into the Führerbunker under the New Reich Chancellery. In the seclusion of the bunker, Junge experienced the internal disintegration of Hitler, who was, however, willing to drag the whole of Germany into his downfall.
The secretary was shocked to learn that the war had been lost and the once impressive "leader" had become powerless. Nevertheless, Junge initially remained in the Führerbunker, even though Hitler had ordered her to be taken out of Berlin. The dictator's 56th birthday was celebrated there on April 20, 1945. On the night of April 29th, Hitler dictated his political will to his secretary, and Junge was disappointed by his arrogance and megalomania. Then she witnessed the marriage between the dictator and his long-time partner, Eva Braun. A little later, on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide in the Führerbunker.
Immediately afterwards, Junge fled the bunker with other victims. After a four-week, 300km odyssey, Junge returned to Berlin in early June 1945, where she was imprisoned by the Soviet occupation. A year later, Junge managed to escape to his parents on Ammersee in Bavaria. After temporary imprisonment by the American occupation authorities, she was denazified in 1947. At that time (1947/48) Junge began to write down her experiences in the Third Reich. For her, recording these memories meant an act of coming to terms with the past, as she only now understood the criminal nature of the Hitler regime in all its dimensions.
Hitler's former secretary suffered throughout her life from her former naive enthusiasm for the National Socialist leadership cult and power behavior. Junge's memoirs were not published until more than half a century later. The journalist Melissa Müller edited the manuscript and published it together with Junge in 2002 under the title "Until the last hour. Hitler's secretary tells her life". The book, which illustrates the banality of everyday life at the center of National Socialist power, but also makes Hitler's personal charisma and power understandable, caused a great stir among the German and international public.
In 2001, based on Junge's memoirs, André Heller and Othmar Schmiderer made the documentary film "Im dead Winkel. Hitler's Secretary". The film is based on interviews with the 81-year-old Junge and expresses the hermetic isolation and surprising isolation in which the secretary lived from 1942 to 1945, despite being at the center of power. Shortly after the publication of her book and immediately after the film's premiere at the Berlinale, Traudl Junge died of cancer in Munich on February 11, 2002.
In 2004, a wider international cinema audience experienced the impressive eyewitness testimony of Hitler's private secretary in Oliver Hirschbiegel's Hitler adaptation "Downfall".- Jack Abbott was born on a US Army base in Michigan, the son of a US soldier and a Chinese woman. In trouble with school authorities and the law at an early age, Abbott was sent to a reform school at age 16. At 21 he was serving time in a Utah prison for forgery when he got into a fight with a fellow inmate and stabbed the man to death. Abbott was given a sentence of three to 20 years for the killing. In 1971 he escaped and, while on the lam, committed a bank robbery in Colorado. He was eventually caught and sent back to prison, earning himself an extra 19 years for his additional crimes. In prison he was troublesome and defiant, refusing to obey orders, and spent an inordinate amount of time in solitary confinement.
In 1977 he read that writer Norman Mailer was writing a book about convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. Abbott wrote to Mailer and offered to write a book about his life in various prisons and what it was like. Mailer agreed, and the book, which was actually a series of letters Abbott wrote to Mailer, was called "In the Belly of the Beast". Mailer helped get it published and it garnered extensive critical acclaim. Mailer got behind Abbott in his attempts to get parole, and in 1980 his efforts were successful; Abbott was granted parole and traveled to New York City, where he met up with Mailer and became the "toast" of the literary scene for a while.
In July of 1980, only six weeks after getting out of prison, Abbott got into an altercation with a young waiter in a restaurant when Abbot tried to use the bathroom and was told that it was for employees only. Abbott wound up stabbing the 22-year-old waiter, Richard Adan, who died from his wounds. Abbott quickly left New York City, but was captured in Louisiana not long afterwards and returned to New York. Tried for the death of Adan, Abbott acted as his own counsel, but to no avail--he was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
On Feb. 10, 2002, Abbott was found hanging in his cell in the New York state prison at Alden. He had committed suicide. - Ramón Arellano Félix was born on 31 August 1964 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He died on 10 February 2002 in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico.
- Dave Van Ronk was born on 30 June 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was married to Andrea Marie Vuocolo and Terri Thal. He died on 10 February 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.
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George Singer was born on 13 December 1923 in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Bullwinkle Show (1959), A Garfield Christmas Special (1987) and The Transformers (1984). He died on 10 February 2002 in Northridge, California, USA.- Art Department
Mike Miner was born on 23 March 1933 in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, USA [now Hawaii, USA]. Mike is known for Rocky (1976), Monster in the Closet (1986) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972). Mike died on 10 February 2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.- Make-Up Department
Jack Obringer was born on 13 October 1920. He is known for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), 1941 (1979) and Mannix (1967). He was married to Marcia Middendorf. He died on 10 February 2002.- Additional Crew
John Erickson was born on 17 April 1929 in Newcastle, England, UK. He is known for Stalin (1990), American Masters (1985) and Battlefield (1995). He was married to Ljubica Petrovic. He died on 10 February 2002 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.- Kai Buth was born on 20 June 1970 in Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. He was an actor, known for Manuel (1984), Police Call 110 (1971) and Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (1997). He died on 10 February 2002 in Berlin, Germany.
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Jacques R. Villa's first film Wild Roots of Love (1960), a dark tale involving four little girls, may have been ahead of its time. Whatever the case my be, the censors disliked the idea of three "innocent" lasses trying to drown a fourth one. As a result, the movie was purely and simply banned just after being released in 1959. When it was finally authorized five years after it was too late, it flopped at the box office. Nowadays it remains largely unseen and unjustly forgotten, despite featuring Catherine Deneuve in her first major role at age 16. Villa was born in 1927 in Soulac-sur-Mer to an army officer father. The place where he studied was a Jesuit college, reputed the severest in France. At 15, not putting up with the strict discipline of the place, he ran away to Paris, where he was hired as a jazz musician. But this was only an enchanted interlude as, after a time, he was brought back home by his family. At last an adult, he could finally fend for himself and started working for French television, first in Morocco, then in Paris where he became the assistant of François Chalais, whose programs about cinema were very popular. It is during this period that Jacques Villa wrote a Christmas tale that would later be the basis of Wild Roots of Love (1960).- Janina Pustówka was born on 29 September 1916. She was an actress, known for Grzeszny zywot Franciszka Buly (1980), The Beads of One Rosary (1980) and Komedianci z wczorajszej ulicy (1987). She died on 10 February 2002.
- Józef Ozga-Michalski was born on 8 March 1919 in Bieliny, Swietokrzyskie, Poland. Józef was a writer, known for Sowizdrzal swietokrzyski (1980). Józef died on 10 February 2002 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Jim Spencer was born on 30 July 1947 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Susan McDonnell and Frances Margaret Portera. He died on 10 February 2002 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
- Vernon Walters was born on 3 January 1917 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on 10 February 2002 in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.