Joseph Goebbels’ 105-year-old secretary describes drunken madness of Hitler’s bunker… but claims she knew nothing of Nazi atrocities
Brunhilde Pomsel said she was unaware of Nazi attempts to rid the world of Jews and simply 'typed in his office' during the war
THE secretary for evil Joseph Goebbels has claimed she had no idea Jews were being slaughtered during her years working for the leading Nazi chief.
Brunhilde Pomsel, 105, worked in Nazi propaganda boss Goebbels' office from 1942 until his death at the end of the war in 1945.
She was even in the Berlin bunker when the last leading Nazis - including Hitler and Goebbels - committed suicide as the Russian army closed in.
They ensured the bunker was well stocked with booze, she said, in order to keep everyone "numb" from the reality of their collapsing empire.
Marking the release of a new documentary, she spoke with in what was only her second ever press interview.
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Denying suggestions she was trying to clear her conscience before her death, she said she did nothing more than "type in Goebbels office" during the Nazi regime's murderous campaign.
Goebbels, one of Hitler's longest-serving lieutenants, was a fervent anti-Semite and a prominent supporter of the extermination of Jews during the Second World War.
She told the paper: "I know no one ever believes us nowadays - everyone thinks we knew everything. We knew nothing, it was all kept well secret."
She added that Nazi excuses that Jews were being taken to "repopulate" other parts of Europe were "entirely plausible".
After her bosses' suicide and the collapse of the Nazi empire, she was jailed for five years in Russian prisons.
It was only after she was released did she discover that wholesale killing of Jews had occurred, she claimed.
Goebbels preached the extermination of Europe’s Jews - commissioning films which portrayed them in a bad light - and inventing slogans which justified the Holocaust.
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