After 56 years of self-imposed silence, Traudl Junge unburdens herself with a detailed and fascinating account of the daily routine, the personal foibles and whimsies of her boss, the man whom she now recognises as demonic: Adolf Hitler. She is candid, admitting to, but not absolving herself of, her naïveté. As a young girl of 22, she found herself at Hitler’s side on the day of the failed Stauffenberg plot to assassinate him on July 20 1944. She also experienced the eerie denouement of the Third Reich with the Führer and the Goebbels family in the Berlin bunker as Soviet forces invaded the city. She was at the calm centre of the maelstrom, the Blind Spot. Throughout, Junge comes across as an intelligent spectator coming to terms, ever since those fateful days, with having been at the epicentre of evil.