Why wasn't Hitler's secretary indicted?

She was not punished after the War, correct? She was a Nazi worker. Why wasn't she sent to trial?
The "Hitler's Bodyguards" documentary series was really good.

 

What should the trial do with a secratary? All the orders she sent out were Hitlers orders. It wasn´t allowed to her to give own orders to the Wehrmacht or the SS.

Regards

Ulrich

 

might be worth a look, as she finally tells her story..

 

Nazi guards at all concentration and prisoner of war camps were only carrying out Hitler's orders, as well and weren't allowed to give orders. What's the difference between the two? She belonged to Nazi Germany and she helped Hitler and his staff further the Nazi War movement. She certainly wasn't working for the Allied movement. She was Hitler's confidant and took his orders without any resistance. She should have been tried as a Nazi sympathizer.

 

Typing isn't whipping prisoners into the chambers now is it. There is a great difference between the two. There was one of Hitler's secretaries who was indicted, and tried in absentia. Martin Bormann was Hitler's personal secratary, and you had to go through him to get to Hitler.

You cannot compare the workings of a twenty or something year-old female clerk typist, taking dictation and typing up the words, to any criminal act. She wasn't responsible for issuing nor following the orders. Would you like to prosecute the typewriter machines as well? They too transferred Hitler's words into print!

By the way, Trude Junge was one member of a secratarial pool, she and about five or six other girls would take turns doing the work, or Hitler would ask for one or the other by name at times. Trude was asked to take down his "last will and testaments", both personal and political, but that might be because she just happened to be the one there when he decided to do it.

 

Hi Clint,

well stated!

cool 09,

why do some guys always believe that all of the germans that had to work with Hitler and the other bad guys were Nazi´s and responsible for their crimes? Please read the german history carefully and in some books it is necessary to read between the lines.
I would never say that all of the american citizens were guilty on the indians destiny, that would be to simple and it wouldn´t cover the real reasons why a few of the men in that age had done it in that way. And at least it wouldn´t help anybody.
So don´t take this as an personal offend, but please do overthink a few arguments.

Regards

Ulrich

BTW the Thread"Have you ever met any WWII Nazi vet" is an good reading.

 

What did she do wrong?

She wasn't involded in any war crimes, or kill anyone. She was a secretary. Her only crime was to work for Hitler.. Her punishment was to be known as Hitler's secretary. I'm sure she was scutinized after the war which made her life difficult.

But overall there were lots of nazi criminals involved in war crimes that were never caught or charged. To go after a secretary would have been just a waste of time.

 

Indeed, plenty of bigger fish in the lake that got away actually...

Anyway, as a secretary she had nothing to do with creating the orders, or fulfilling them herself, so even if a nazi sympathizer there would be quite nothing to charge her with, or would there be? Just my opinion....

The document is quite excellent especially the last moments when she comments on taking the job as Hitler´s secretary.

 

She didn't do anything wrong. She never signed a death warrant, never sent anyone to a death camp, etc. All she did was organize things for Hitler, that's all. She in no way had anything to do with the conduct of the war in any regards, and that is why she's wasn't indicted. Plus she was young and was classified a "young follower." Like it was said, there were plenty of other big fish to catch and worry about.

 

Poor Taudl, having to put up with this sort of organised nonsense for the rest of her God born days. What a way to rise to fame, and like other Nazi associates, she paid the price for her loyalty. Leave her alone. Lots of other Nazis simply shrugged off the uniform and picked up where they left off after the war. Mercedes springs to mind, as do other German companies like Mengele, (Farm machinery manufacturer). Volkswagen profitted directly from the war, and even produced the "Hitler Vehicle" (The Beetle) post-war. The first delivery was to none other than Eva Braun, and 15 million more vehicles were produced before production ceased.

Volkswagen aided and abetted the the war effort far more than small fry like Traudl Junge.

Never forget that Oskar Schindler, lionized by postwar press, was nothing more than a war profiteer, manufacturing kitchen ware for the German Army.

Reinhard Geilen went on to bigger and better things in the postwar Bundeswher, as did Erich Hartmann. Werner von Braun cheerfully worked for the American space programme, having made a career as a Nazi scientist, extending the war by many months. Albert Speer also extended the time period of Nazi rule, sending tens of thousands of slave workers to their premature end in factories like the Harz Mountain facility for manufacture of the V1.

With this galaxy of Third Reich talent winging away to a postwar career or two, you pick on Traudl Junge and call in the dogs of law?

You small minded person!!!

 

Agreed! I'd like to add one more opinion on this. It doesn't either matter, if Traudl Junge believed in Hitler and in Nazi ideology. She might have or might haven't, but that doesn't make her guilty either way. It's obvious that her actions weren't criminal.