The former secretary of Nazi Germany’s propaganda boss Joseph Goebbels died aged 106 last week, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the maker of a documentary about her said on Monday.
Brunhilde Pomsel died on January 27 in a care home in the southern city of Munich, said Christian Kroenes, who conducted extensive interviews with her for his 2016 film “A German life”.
Pomsel, who worked for Goebbels as a secretary, typist and stenographer from 1942-45, had insisted she had no idea of the Holocaust that claimed the lives of six million Jews while it was happening.
“We knew nothing,” she said in the film.
“We ourselves were all trapped in a vast concentration camp,” she said about the totalitarian state of Adolf Hitler.
As one of half a dozen secretaries in Goebbels’ office, Pomsel was among the last eyewitnesses to the inner circle of top Nazis.
In “A German life”, she insisted she felt no guilt and also said: “I could not put up resistance -- I was too much of a coward.”
She told AFP last year that she had once cheered on Hitler, in 1933, adding “we didn’t know then what lay ahead”.