Fall 2024 Militaria & Collectibles Auction
Lot 259:
Description
Adolf Hitlers Third Reich Personalities include Traudl Junge Hitlers Private Secretary, Hans Baur Hitlers Personal Pilot and Otto Weidinger, Waffen. Gertraud Traudl Junge (16 March 1920-10 February 2002) was a German editor who worked as Adolf Hitlers last private secretary from December 1942 to April 1945. After typing Hitlers will, she remained in the Berlin Fuhrerbunker until his death. Following her arrest and imprisonment in June 1945, both the Soviet and the U.S. militaries interrogated her. Later, in post-war West Germany, she worked as a secretary. In her old age, she decided to publish her memoirs, claiming ignorance of the Nazi atrocities during the war, but blaming herself for missing opportunities to investigate reports about them. Her story, based partly on her book Until the Final Hour, formed a part of several dramatizations, in particular the 2004 German film Downfall about Hitlers final ten days. Johannes Hans Baur (19 June 1897-17 February 1993) was Adolf Hitlers pilot during the political campaigns of the early 1930s. He began his aviation career as a flying ace in World War I. He later became Hitlers personal pilot and leader of the Reichsregierung squadron. Apprehended by the Soviet Union at the end of WWII at the end of in Europe, he was imprisoned in the Soviet Union for ten years.Otto Weidinger (27 May 1914-10 January 1990) was a member of the Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany and a regimental commander in the SS Division Das Reich during WWII. In this capacity, he was involved in the Oradour Massacre in France in June 1944. He was the author of a revisionist account of the divisions history, produced under the auspices of HIAG, a Waffen-SS lobby group in post-war West Germany. The signatures on this book plate are original. The approximate size is 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Good overall condition.
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