Pomsel was one of the last surviving members of the Nazi hierarchy’s most intimate staff, but she spent all but the final years of her life in obscurity. On the side, she worked for a Nazi Party activist, transcribing his memoirs of World War I. “You just couldn’t do that to the poor Jew.”In 1933, through the intercession of her Nazi employer, Pomsel was hired as a secretary in the news division of the German government broadcasting corporation. She recalled altering German casualty counts to present a falsely rosy picture of the Nazi war effort. She remembered the diminutive Goebbels as an urbane man, with hands so well kept that they appeared to be manicured daily.

Source: National Post January 30, 2017 16:38 UTC