by Bob Walsh
Brunhilde Pomsel died last month in her native Germany at the age of 106. You probably never heard of her. Neither had I until I read about her in the Economist this week. During WW II she was one of six private secretaries to Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister for Nazi Germany.
If you believe the recent biopic about her she had no idea whatsoever what the Nazi's were up to with regard to rounding up and slaughtering Jews. In fact her best girlfriend was a Jew as was the love of her life. The gf died in Auschwitz. The boyfriend fled to Amsterdam. She continued to visit him for a while but eventually that became untenable.
After the war she spent five years doing menial labor in a Soviet prison camp. When she returned to her flat in Berlin afterwards her place was still intact including her clothes in the closet.
She asserts that she had no idea what was going on until the last ten days of the war, which she spent in Hitler's bunker, stinking drunk. Goebbels and his wife killed themselves after murdering their own children. She barely knew her boss, but said that Mrs. Goebbels was a very nice lady and was kind to her.
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I smell Bullshit.
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