Christa Schroeder
| Christa Schroeder | |
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Schroeder, photographed at the Wolfsschanze
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| Born |
19 March 1908 Hannoversch Münden, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| Died | 28 June 1984 (aged 76) Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Secretary, stenotypist, memoirist |
| Employer | Adolf Hitler |
| Known for | Adolf Hitler's personal secretary before and during the Second World War. |
Christa Schroeder (born Emilie Christine Schroeder; 19 March 1908 – 28 June 1984) was one of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s personal secretaries before and during World War II.
She was born in the small town of Hannoversch Münden and moved to Nagold after her parents died. There she worked for a lawyer from 1929 to March 1930.
After leaving Nagold for Munich, Schroeder was employed as a stenotypist in the Oberste SA-Führung, the Sturmabteilung (SA) high command. There she got to know Hitler in early 1933, when he had just been appointed chancellor. He took a liking to Schroeder and hired her in June 1933.
Schroeder lived at the Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair) near Rastenburg, Adolf Hitler's World War II Eastern Front military headquarters from 1941 until he and his staff departed for the last time on 20 November 1944. When Hitler withdrew his headquarters to the Führerbunker in Berlin in January 1945, she went with him and his staff. Before late April 1945, Hitler would regularly have lunch with Schroeder and fellow secretary Johanna Wolf.
On 20 April 1945, during the Battle of Berlin, Schroeder, Wolf, Albert Bormann, Admiral Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Dr. Theodor Morell, Dr. Hugo Blaschke, six stenographers and several others were ordered by Hitler to leave Berlin by aircraft for the Obersalzberg. The group flew out of Berlin on different flights by aircraft of the Fliegerstaffel des Führers over the following three days. Her account of her service as Hitler's secretary (Er war mein Chef, Herbig, 2002) is an important source in the study of the Nazi years.
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