Joseph Goebbels’ secretary dies aged 106

Pomsel worked for propaganda minister responsible for spreading Hitler’s ideology

Brunhilde Pomsel, former secretary of propaganda minister Goebbels, has died. She was 106. Photograph: Matthias Balk/dpa via AP
Brunhilde Pomsel, former secretary of propaganda minister Goebbels, has died. She was 106. Photograph: Matthias Balk/dpa via AP

Brunhilde Pomsel, a former secretary of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, has died aged 106.

Ms Pomsel lived most of her life in relative obscurity until a German newspaper published an interview with her in 2011, prompting a flurry of interest in one of the last surviving members of the Nazi leadership’s inner circle.

Her death was confirmed by Christian Kroenes, a director and producer of the film A German Life.

In the documentary, Ms Pomsel talks about her three years working for the man responsible for spreading Adolf Hitler’s ideology in newspapers and across the airwaves.

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Mr Kroenes said Ms Pomsel had been lucid when he last spoke to her on her birthday on January 11th.

He said she died at her Munich home on Friday.

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