The Weekly Standard’s Victorino Matus writes on the death of Traudl Junge, 1920-2002:

TRAUDL JUNGE had a solid resume. She was a journalist at Quick magazine, a freelance writer and editor, and even a technical adviser for a movie. But most of all, she was a secretary with almost superhuman skills at typing and dictation. And she was very good at following orders–a boss’s dream come true. But I imagine on Junge’s resume, there’d be a sizable gap from 1942 to 1945. It’s not that she was unemployed. Quite the contrary: For three years, Traudl Junge was the personal secretary to Adolf Hitler. Which isn’t something you’d want to mention at an interview.

Well, unless the interview is for, say, Aryan Nation Snow Queen…

Junge’s death serves to remind us that — not all too long ago — certain Europeans were willing to dedicate themselves to the outright extermination of entire groups of humans. We should keep this historical proximity in mind each and every time we hear tell of some snide French diplomat’s cavalier dinner party anti-semitism; blas