Top Nazi propagandist Goebbels' secretary dies at 106

[cyberfarang]

Whether only a secretary or not, she was still a cog in the well oiled Nazi mass extermination machine. I do not believe that these people who were working right inside the core of the Nazi regime, many for several years, did not have a clue what was going on. Obviously at the time they believed Germany would win the war and would prosper from it, then after the war they either stayed silent or pleaded ignorance, as in fact this woman did.

 

Glad she`s finally gone and although well overdue, I bid her good riddance, better late than never.

[alfalfa19]

7 hours ago, SheungWan said:

Completely childish.

i disagree.   but thanks for posting the photos again, the more exposure they get , the better. 

[Bonefish]

14 hours ago, SheungWan said:

But she was a member of the Nazi Party. What is the point you want to make regards this person? That she shouldn't have bothered?

My point is that you did not have to be a member of the National-Socialist party to get a job with the government, even a very high-ranking job like Field-Marshall or General of the German Wehrmacht. Party membership was optional and not as easy to get as membership in one of the political parties in the US or other Western countries today. Similar situation in the former Soviet Union, where membership in the ruling Communist Party was hard to get.

[Bonefish]

4 minutes ago, Bonefish said:

My point is that you did not have to be a member of the National-Socialist party to get a job with the government, even a very high-ranking job like Field-Marshall or General of the German Wehrmacht. Party membership was optional and not as easy to get as membership in one of the political parties in the US or other Western countries today. Similar situation in the former Soviet Union, where membership in the ruling Communist Party was hard to get.

The NS party had a maximum of 8 million members among a population of 80 million German citizens, so 90% of the population were NOT party members at the peak of its popularity. In 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War, there were 5.3 million members,  so over 93% of all German citizens during the Nazi regime were NOT members of the Nazi Party:

 

"When it came to power in 1933, the Nazi Party had over 2 million members. In 1939, the membership total rose to 5.3 million with 81% being male and 19% being female. It continued to attract many more and by 1945 the party reached its peak of 8 million with 63% being male and 37% being female (about 10% of the German population of 80 million)."  Source: Wikipedia.

[ddavidovsky]

Not at all clear from the article what her job actually was. Presumably that's to cover up the fact that she was nobody. If she was just a secretary in the department, rather than Goebbels' personal, private secretary-and-enabler as this article is slyly fantasising about and wants us to believe, then there's no story here.

[Jingthing]

3 hours ago, ddavidovsky said:

Not at all clear from the article what her job actually was. Presumably that's to cover up the fact that she was nobody. If she was just a secretary in the department, rather than Goebbels' personal, private secretary-and-enabler as this article is slyly fantasising about and wants us to believe, then there's no story here.

There is a story. Get a clue:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunhilde_Pomsel

[ddavidovsky]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

There is a story. Get a clue:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunhilde_Pomsel

Where's the story? She was a mere stenographer - an ordinary secretary,  She wasn't Goebbels' personal secretary.

The article was playing on the fact that 'secretary' can mean completely different things and it deliberately didn't bother to clarify. Thanks for wasting a few more minutes of my time,

[simple1]

7 hours ago, ddavidovsky said:

Where's the story? She was a mere stenographer - an ordinary secretary,  She wasn't Goebbels' personal secretary.

The article was playing on the fact that 'secretary' can mean completely different things and it deliberately didn't bother to clarify. Thanks for wasting a few more minutes of my time,

try again....

 

Brunhilde Pomsel (11 January 1911 – 27 January 2017)^[1] was a German woman who, as a personal secretary to Joseph Goebbels from 1942 onwards, was one of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the Nazi power apparatus. She was also a broadcaster and died in 2017 at the age of 106.