http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traudl_Junge
born Gertraud Humps
Apologizes at the beginning and at the end of the film "Downfall"
I have the feeling that I should be angry with this child,
with this childish young thing, of I shouldn't forgive her.
for not realizing the horrors, the monster, before it was too late,
for not realizing what she was getting into.
How could I have agreed to it so impulsively?
I was not an enthusiactic Nazi.
When I cam to Berlin, I could have said "No,
I won't take part. I don't want to be sent to the Fuhrers headquarters."
But I didn't say no. Curiosity got the better of me.
And I simply never thought
that fate would take me somewhere I'd never realy wanted to be.
And yet, It's very hard to forgive myself for doing it.
At the end of the film:
…about the 6 million Jews and the people of other races
who were killed were facts that shocked me deeply.
But I wasn't able to see the connection with my own past.
I was satisfied that I wasn't personally to blame
and that I hadn't known about those things.
I wasn't aware of the extent.
But one day I want past the memorial plaque
which had been put up for Sophie Scholl in Franz Josef Strasse,
and I saw that she was born the same year as me,
and she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler,
And at that moment I actually sensed
that it was no excuse to be young,
and that it would have been possible to find things out.