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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Milgram's Experiment proved that most would not have.
How many people today won’t sign a petition out of fear of an IRS audit, or harassment from the gay mafia?
This is why Hillary is a shoe-in to win. The average american is too beat down to stand up for himself.
“And the American state is much, much better at propaganda than the Nazis.”
the same krauts we captured worked for the gubmint afterwards. How did you think NASA came about? If you read The Right Stuff, one of the astronauts in training thought he was in Berlin when training for space flight due to the many Germans there.
I’ve seen a color film of Hitler, Eva Braun, etc. It was not colorized.
Same here. It really does allow you to get more of a feeling for the fact that back then, they were living in that ubiquitous time period we are living in right now. I call it “modern times”.
The takeaway I get from this woman’s story, is that our side needs to recruit people like her. IOW, insiders. Nobodies, low level functionaries with access to documents and hard information. People who are able to copy and hack and funnel useful information.
Overcoming their loyalty to their bosses is hard, but it can be done.
Conversely, people on our side who are pretty good actors can be placed in those positions with access.
>Of all the people portrayed in Downfall, the one I hated the most was Frau Goebbels, for doing that to her children.
Most of the kids where probably Hitler’s children. If you read Goebbels diary it was pretty clear she was in love with Hilter and often slept with him. Goebbels was a cuckold.
Stalin started out as a Secretary for the Bolsheviks, he used his office to get incriminating information on all of the Party members and ultimately used this to gain power.
Doesn’t change the fact that what she did was evil.
They just ignored the white ash falling every day like snow too...
Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge, died in 2002 (age almost 82).
Wikipedia lists some other Hitler secretaries and a nurse who lived normal life spans.
thank you!
I forget, clerks don't never commit crimes.
She meant she didn’t know their side was gonna lose
When I was stationed in Berlin in the mid 70’s, a lady that worked in the chow hall at Tempelhof said she was in the Hitler youth (like she had a choice) and during the last days of the war in Berlin, the only Nazi official she would see out in the streets making speeches was Goebbles. She said all the others were cowards hidden away in their bunkers.
That’s true. From pretty much 1943 onwards, Goebbels made most of the public speeches, instead of Hitler, most notably the “Total War” speech.
For all I know that man in the hut could be running extermination camps for white people right now.
Führer Obama is nearly encouraging race wars. innocent people are being murdered by supporters of
Führer Obama . They might not be march in to gas chambers but they are being killed.
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