“I just laid the morning propaganda programs on the people.”
“You’re putting me on! What did they say?”
“I told the people we invaded England!”
“That’s a groove, daddy! How did we come out?”
“We beat ‘em, baby!”
“Groovy! That’s my Joe! That’s my little Joe.
HOW UTTERLY FAMILIAR.
He made Uncle Leo’s hamburger, too.
That’s why I’m actually kind of amazed she is still alive today. 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.
“He’d trip up the steps like a little duke, through his library into his beautiful office on Unter den Linden.”
Yes, but he was lame, so he must have “tripped” in an odd manner...
“F__k the huns.”
She probably ran the whole show. Just like Jennifer Marlowe at WKRP.
The propaganda was just really good.
And the American state is much, much better at propaganda than the Nazis.
Maybe she didn’t know about Auschwitz, but she knew about Krystallnacht, the Nuremberg Laws, etc.
SAVE
She notes how life for her vivacious, red-haired Jewish friend, Eva Löwenthal, became increasingly difficult after Adolf Hitler came to power. 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.
So...actually she did know.
There is actually a clear message here, for those that pay attention.
Hint: the most sadistic of humans, when not participating in the more gruesome antics of their chosen vocation, look like everyone else and can even be likable fellows.
I’ve seen those B&W and color films of Hitler and Eva with the dog at the villa. Watch those videos through the eyes of a patriotic Nazi German citizen of the time. You see something different than you or I would see.
It’s kinda fascinating, actually.
To really wrap your head around those old black and white films of jews being escorted onto trains, and citizens collecting their drinking water from the gutters in city streets of Warsaw and Berlin, or the engineers and business people that work in the city being bussed out to the rural areas and handed a shovel for the shovel ready project de-jure - the Autobahn.
And you need to see it happening to the world in which you live.
To quote Jamey Johnson, “you should have seen it in color”.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jameyjohnson/incolor.html
Those people nowadays who say they would have stood up against the Nazis – I believe they are sincere in meaning that, but believe me, most of them wouldn’t have.” After the rise of the Nazi party, “the whole country was as if under a kind of a spell,” she insists. “I could open myself up to the accusations that I wasn’t interested in politics but the truth is, the idealism of youth might easily have led to you having your neck broken.
I vus only folloving orduhs.
I don’t believe you either, bitch!
WOW - Morning Joe and Mika's idea of a man with the 'right tone'...all surface bullsh*t... Jake Tapper would love the guy... Oh God to be that shallow...
“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. “We believed it – we swallowed it – it seemed entirely plausible,” she says.”
No way is this possible. The villagers next to Dachua said the didn’t know.