Johanna Wolf

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Johanna Wolf (1 June 1900 - 28 June 1984), was one of Adolf Hitler's secretaries. Born in Munich, she joined Hitler's personal secretariat in 1929 as a typist, at which time she also became a Nazi Party member. When Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933 she became a senior secretary in his Private Chancellery. As the senior secretary and a dedicated Nazi she was a trusted member of Hitler's entourage, and remained with him when he withdrew to the Führerbunker in central Berlin as the Red Army approached. On 22 April, however, Hitler, having decided to stay and die in Berlin, sent Wolf and Christa Schröder to his house at Berchtesgaden in Bavaria to burn his personal papers before they could be seized by the Allies. She was taken prisoner when the Americans occupied Berchtesgaden and remained a prisoner until 1948. She died in Munich in 1984.

Although Wolf served under Hitler for many years, unlike other secretaries such as Traudl Junge, she refused to consent to any interviews or reveal any information, even when, during the 1970s, she was offered a large amount of money to write her memoirs. Whenever asked to do so, she stated that she was a "private" secretary and believed it was her duty to never reveal anything about Hitler.