Brunhilde Pomsel, the former secretary of infamous Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, has died. She was 106.
Christian Kroenes, a director and producer of the film “A German Life,” confirmed Pomsel’s death on Sunday, according to The Associated Press.
Pomsel became known because of a 2011 interview highlighting her as one of the last survivors with exclusive information pertaining to Nazi’s leadership.
“A German Life” was a film about Pomsel’s life, according to The Guardian.
In an interview last year, Pomsel opened up about what it was like working for Joseph Goebbels, who was once a German politician and the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany for more than a decade.
“It was rare for us to see him in the mornings,” Pomsel said, according to The Guardian. “He’d walk up the steps from his little palace near the Brandenburg Gate, on to which his huge propaganda ministry was attached. He’d trip up the steps like a little duke, through his library into his beautiful office on Unter den Linden.”
“We always knew once he had arrived, but we didn’t normally see him until he left his office, coming through a door that led directly into our room, so we could ask him any questions we had, or let him know who had called,” she added. “Sometimes, his children came to visit and were so excited to visit Daddy at his work. They would come with the family’s lovely Airedale. They were very polite and would curtsy and shake our hands.”
In what was one of the last interviews of Pomsel’s life, she said she was happy that she was approaching her final days while offering her hope for the future.
“In the little time that’s left to me – and I hope it will be months rather than years – I just cling to the hope that the world doesn’t turn upside down again as it did then, though there have been some ghastly developments, haven’t there? I’m relieved I never had any children that I have to worry about,” she said.
Pomsel gave her thoughts on the Holocaust, referring to it as “the matter of the Jews,” Fox News noted.
“Those people nowadays who say they would have stood up against the Nazis – I believe they are sincere in meaning that, but believe me, most of them wouldn’t have,” Pomsel said, according to Fox News.
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