105-year-old secretary Goebbels talked about the work of Nazi propaganda

Pomsel, for example, recalls how she was handed a dossier on the anti-fascist Sophie Scholl from the White Rose resistance movement. In 1943, Scholl was executed for treason after distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich.

“One of Goebbels’s special advisers told me to put this dossier in a safe and not look into it. I never looked into it and was very pleased with myself because he showed trust in me and because my desire to justify this trust prevailed over my curiosity, which persuaded me to look into the dossier,” recalls Pomzel.

In the 1942 year, when Pomsel was 31 the year, someone recommended transferring it from state radio to the Ministry of Propaganda. She says that, basically, she lived in her own little world, not suspecting how the Nazi regime exterminates its enemies, although it was physically located in the very heart of the system.

“I know that now no one believes us: everyone thinks that we knew everything. We didn’t know anything, everything was kept a big secret,” Pomzel assures. She believed that Jews were simply sent to villages in the Sudetenland that needed additional population, as "it seemed absolutely plausible."

Pomsel also recalls that Goebbels wore suits made from the best fabrics, and his hands were very well-groomed - “he probably had a manicure every day.” She felt a little sorry for him because he limped, and “to compensate for this, he carried himself a little arrogantly.”

At the same time, Brünnhilde was horrified to see Goebbels deliver his infamous “total war” speech in February 1943.

“In the office he had a kind of noble grace, and then to see him there as an angry dwarf - it’s simply impossible to imagine a more striking contrast,” says Goebbels’s ex-secretary.

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According to the author of the article, Pomzel may have edited her biography in order to feel calmer, but the huge administrative complex in the government quarter did in many ways protect her from the harsh reality.

In the last days of the war, Goebbels was ordered to join Hitler in a bunker. Pomsel recalls how April 30 Gunter Schwegermann, an assistant to Goebbels, brought news that Hitler and Goebbels had committed suicide.

“We were dumbfounded,” recalls Pomsel. Then they began to cut the white bags in which the food was stored and sew a huge white flag from them to surrender. They knew that they would inevitably be arrested.

Pomsel told colleagues that during the interrogation she would tell the truth that she worked as a stenographer in the propaganda department of Goebbels.

She was eventually sentenced to 5 years in several Russian camps in and around Berlin. “It was hard there,” is all Pomzel says about that time.

In addition, Posel insists that she learned about the Holocaust only after returning home. Soon, she again got a secretary on the state radio, where she worked until 60 years and retired.