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Witness History

The Death of Hitler

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A first-hand account of Hitler from our archives. Traudl Junge worked as a secretary for the German Nazi leader. She was in the bunker in Berlin when he killed himself in 1945 as the Red Army closed in. She spoke to Zina Rohan for the BBC in 1989.

Photo: Hitler and some of his officers. Credit: Getty Images.

Transcript

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And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds just before this

0:30.3

BBC podcast gets underway here's something you may not know.

0:34.4

My name's Linda Davies and I commission podcast for BBC Sounds.

0:38.3

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely

0:46.0

engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

0:54.2

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And that's just a few examples.

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1:06.0

Hello, this is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

1:11.7

We started broadcasting our first-hand accounts from the past in 2009.

1:17.0

Ten years on all this week we're bringing you some of our favourite programs from our early days.

1:22.0

First off let's go back to 1945 and the death of

1:26.3

Adolf Hitler Germany's World War II leader. Since he'd come to power

1:30.9

six million Jews as well as gypsies, gay people and the

1:35.0

disabled had been murdered in the Holocaust and some 63 million people around

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