He had well-groomed hands he probably had a manicure every day, she says, laughing at the thought.Brunhilde Pomsel worked at the heart of the Nazis propaganda machine.As a film about her life is released, she discusses her lack of remorse and the private side of her monstrous boss.
Hed walk up the steps from his little palace near the Brandenburg Gate, on to which his huge propaganda ministry was attached. Sometimes, his children came to visit and were so excited to visit Daddy at his work. In the little time thats left to me and I hope it will be months rather than years I just cling to the hope that the world doesnt turn upside down again as it did then, though there have been some ghastly developments, havent there Im relieved I never had any children that I have to worry about. It is important for me, when I watch the film, to recognise that mirror image in which I can understand everything Ive done wrong, she says. But really, I didnt do anything other than type in Goebbels office. Goebbels was a good actor, says Brunhilde Pomsel in the trailer for A German Life. As she holds court, gesticulating wildly, with a broad grin on her face, it seems as if she even takes something restorative from her insistence that she simply acted the same way as most other Germans. I could open myself up to the accusations that I wasnt interested in politics but the truth is, the idealism of youth might easily have led to you having your neck broken. Scholl was executed for high treason in February 1943 after distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich. I was told by one of Goebbels special advisers to put it in the safe, and not to look at it. So I didnt, and was quite pleased with myself that he trusted me, and that my keenness to honour that trust was stronger than my curiosity to open that file. She and her siblings were spanked with the carpet beater whenever they were disobedient. That stayed with me, that Prussian something, that sense of duty. Only an infectious disease would have stopped me, she insists. I was flattered, because it was a reward for being the fastest typist at the radio station. Pomsel was also shocked by the arrest of a hugely popular announcer at the radio station, who was sent to a concentration camp as punishment for being gay. But she says that largely, she remained in a bubble, unaware of the destruction being meted out by the Nazi regime on its enemies, despite the fact she was at the physical heart of the system. She refuses to admit she was naive in believing that Jews who had been disappeared including her friend Eva had been sent to villages in the Sudetenland on the grounds that those territories were in need of being repopulated. Ive never possessed anything as chic as that before or since, she says.
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