Ex-secretary of Nazi propagandist Goebbels dies at 106

Brunhilde Pomsel lived in relative obscurity until a German newspaper published an interview with her in 2011.

January 30, 2017 03:46 pm | Updated 03:48 pm IST - BERLIN:

In this June 29, 2016 photo, Brunhilde Pomsel, former secretary of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, is seen at a film premier in Munich, Germany. Ms. Pomsel, who lived most of her life away from the limelight, passed away on January 27, 2016 at her Munich home. She was 106.

In this June 29, 2016 photo, Brunhilde Pomsel, former secretary of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, is seen at a film premier in Munich, Germany. Ms. Pomsel, who lived most of her life away from the limelight, passed away on January 27, 2016 at her Munich home. She was 106.

Brunhilde Pomsel, a former secretary of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, has died. She was 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 on Sunday to AP by Christian Kroenes, a director and producer of the film “A German Life .”

Those Hitlerian days

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.

Mr. Kroenes said Ms. Pomsel had been lucid when he last spoke to her on her birthday on January 11. He says she died at her Munich home on Friday.

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