Hans Hermann Junge

Hans Hermann Junge (11 February 1914 – 13 August 1944)[Note 1] was a German SS officer who served as aide-de-camp and valet to Adolf Hitler.

He was killed in combat during the latter stages of the Battle of Normandy in August 1944 and is buried in Champigny-Saint-André German war cemetery.

[3] Junge worked as a valet in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin and at Hitler's residence near Berchtesgaden.

[2] About Junge's going to the front, his wife Traudl wrote in her memoirs:[5] He was one of the few people to realise that, in the long run, Hitler's ideas would have such an effect on you that, in the end, you would not know what you had thought of yourself, and what was due to outside influence.

He had applied several times to go to the front, which was the only way he could give up his job with Hitler.The following year, he died in combat as an SS-Obersturmführer (first lieutenant) in a low flying aircraft attack in Dreux, France.