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Traudl Junge:All these horrors I've heard of during the Nurnberg process, these six million Jews, other thinking people or people of another race, who perished. That shocked me deeply. But I hadn't made the connection with my past. I assured myself with the thought of not being personally guilty. And that I didn't know anything about the enormous scale of it. But one day I walked by a memorial plate of Sophie Scholl in the Franz-Joseph-Strasse. I saw that she was about my age and she was executed in the same year I came to Hitler. And at that moment I actually realised that a young age isn't an excuse. And that it might have been possible to get to know things
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All the horror I heard about during the nuremberg trial
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The 6 million Jews dissidents or people of another race
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who died shocked me deeply
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But I hadn't made the connection with my own past yet
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I reassured myself by thinking I wasn't personally guilty of it
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And that I hadn't known about the sheer size of it
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But one day I walked past a commemorative plaque
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For Sophie scholl here in the Franz Joseph strasse
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I saw that she was my age
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and that she was executed in the year I joined Hitler
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And only then did I realize
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That youth is no excuse
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And that it might have been possible to find out the truth
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Movie Summary
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.