Brunhilde Pomsel

Brunhilde Pomsel
Born(1911-01-11)11 January 1911
Berlin, German Empire
Died27 January 2017(2017-01-27) (aged 106)
Munich, Germany
Occupation(s)Stenographer, typist, secretary, broadcaster

Brunhilde Pomsel (11 January 1911 – 27 January 2017)[1] was a personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany. She started work at the ministry's offices in the Ordenspalais opposite the Reich Chancellery in Berlin in 1942. In 2014, aged 103, she gave a series of interviews for a film documentary entitled A German Life. She told the interviewer, "It is absolutely not about clearing my conscience" and that "[N]o one believes me now, but I knew nothing".[2] The film was released in 2016 when she was 105 years old.

  1. ^ "Die Geschichte der Frau, die Goebbels Sekretärin war" (in German). noz.de. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
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