Posted on 08/16/2016 7:43:33 AM PDT by Borges
It was rare for us to see him in the mornings,” says Brunhilde Pomsel, her eyes closed and chin in her hand as she recalls her former boss. “He’d walk up the steps from his little palace near the Brandenburg Gate, on to which his huge propaganda ministry was attached. He’d trip up the steps like a little duke, through his library into his beautiful office on Unter den Linden.”
She smiles at the image, noting how elegant the furniture was, the carefree atmosphere where she sat in an ante-chamber off Joseph Goebbels’ office with five other secretaries, how his nails were always neatly manicured.
“We always knew once he had arrived, but we didn’t normally see him until he left his office, coming through a door that led directly into our room, so we could ask him any questions we had, or let him know who had called. Sometimes, his children came to visit and were so excited to visit Daddy at his work. They would come with the family’s lovely Airedale. They were very polite and would curtsy and shake our hands.”
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I don’t blame the German people. For all I know that man in the hut could be running extermination camps for white people right now. How would I ever know about it?
Isn’t it funny. One J. Goebbels has been replaced by an entire apparatus that is the American Main Stream Media. If she were younger the employment opportunities would be endless.
“At the time Berlin surrendered to the Red Army, her close association with Goebbels could have been enough to get her tried, convicted and possibly executed as a Nazi war criminal”
-—They really weren’t interested in Personal Secretaries. One of Hitler’s private secretaries Traudl Junge wrote/spoke a lot of her times with Hitler. Most of these women weren’t in these jobs as a political statement many had no choice or they just needed the money.
War Crimes tribunal wasn’t interested in Secretaries becoming martyrs by being prosecuted simply for typing memos lol
Bailey Quarters would have been a good station manager.
The movie "Downfall" (the one of the Hitler Parodies), was really her story.
It's the crime, not the excuse, that makes one better or worse. Unless you want to be theological and say your propensity to unrealized evil acts makes you guilty--a view that won't fly on the mundane level.
AH! The always effective "Sgt. Schultz" defense.
I saw it. I’m a huge WW2 buff, and one of my favorite Documentaries is “World at War” she is in that as well
She says that yes, most Muslims are peaceful, and most Germans were not Nazi’s and most Chinese were not in the communist party and most Russians were not in Stalin;s Politburo and etc...
But in each and every one of those cases, the 90% of the ‘peaceful’ people were IRRELEVANT.
It is the insanely committed 5 or 10 % that do ALL the damage, while the ‘peaceful’ people do nothing to stop them.
Of all the people portrayed in Downfall, the one I hated the most was Frau Goebbels, for doing that to her children.
She was a hard-core supporter of the Nazi regime that’s for sure.
Corrupt ‘elites’ down through time have figured out the same old - same old ways - to pass themselves off as human... Nice clothes, elegant surrounding, and a measured way of speaking. The standards the 'morning Joe's of the world have)
Our job as conservatives is to look beneath the facade... then to mock the evil.
At the time Berlin surrendered, the Red Army wasn't about to be doin' no trials.
You nailed it.
That is a pretty heavily photoshopped picture at the top of that story. It is pretty unfair to portray her that way.
She was a clerk for goodness sake. Look around your office at the clerks. They were not approving propaganda themes. They were typing.
“She said the limp made him a little arrogant.”
And probably vice versa, too. Which may explain some things, not all, but some.
HOW UTTERLY FAMILIAR.
That deserves repeating...
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