Goebbels secretary breaks silence......

[JEDIYoda]

Damn she`s 105 yrs old...that is impressive.
I personally have found it very hard to believe that people like her had no knowledge whatsoever of the atrocities that were going on around them!

http://www.timesofisrael.com/70-years-on-goebbels-secretary-breaks-silence-in-new-film/ <-- most recent
but I couldn`t copy and paste so we will use an older article...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...tary-breaks-silence-66-years-article-1.951056 -- A secretary to one of Adolf Hitler's top henchmen has broken a 66-year vow of silence, providing fascinating new details about one of the men at the center of the Third Reich.

Brunhilde Pomsel, now 100 years old, told the German newspaper Bild how Joseph Goebbels-Hitler's top propaganda minister-dictated to her, among other things, the orders to rid Berlin of Jews.

"I will never forgive Goebbels for what he brought into this world," Pomsel said. "He got away lightly with suicide. He knew he would be condemned to death by the Allies. His suicide was cowardly, but he was also smart because he knew what was coming if he didn't take that way out."

From 1942 to 1945, Pomsel jotted down almost every word, both official orders and private correspondence, Goebbels saw fit to dictate.

For 66 years, she has refused continued requests to speak of her extraordinary experiences. Now, after five months of negotiations, according to the Daily Mail, which translated the German newspaper article, she has provided a chilling account.

"You couldn't get close to him," said Pomsel. "He never once asked me a personal question. Right up until the end I don't think he knew my name.

"A lot of the stuff I did was somewhat boring. But I gradually became his chief stenographer, recording everything that gushed out from him and from his chief aides."

She told Bild that she spent the last 10 days of the war in Europe in the propaganda ministry's cellar. Then the Russians arrived.

"On May 1 (1945) the news came that The Boss - Hitler - had committed suicide the day before," Pomsel reportedly said.

"The Russians came shortly afterwards and dragged me from the cellar. I spent the next five years as a prisoner of the Russians in special camps."

After the war Pomsel learned her former boss and his wife, Magda, forced their six children to commit suicide by swallowing cyanide vials.

Goebbels then shot his wife and shot himself before having aides burn their bodies.

Pomesel said that she found redemption following her stint with Goebbels. "I never believed that I would have a happy life after working for him," she told Bild. "But I found a way somehow."

 

[Bart*Simpson]

I personally have found it very hard to believe that people like her had no knowledge whatsoever of the atrocities that were going on around them!

Much of this can be attributed to what's called 'normalcy bias'. It's the human inclination to want to dismiss aberrant information in order to maintain a perceived state of normal.

We see it in every day life even today. The first people in Baton Rouge to observe the rising waters this week refused to even consider that the water would keep rising.

In 2005 a whole shit-ton of people in government and in New Orleans steadfastly refused to believe that there was a genuine disaster about to happen in New Orleans even as it became obvious that a hurricane was coming. And we know how that turned out.

Survivors from the second tower of the World Trade Center reported how other people insisted on remaining at their desks because they couldn't believe that the burning tower 150 feet away might have any relation to their immediate future. Those people died.

And even during WW2 when the Holocaust was in full operation the Western allies refused to believe that the Nazis were slaughtering millions of people and those same people just a few years before refused to believe that the Soviets were slaughtering millions of Ukrianians.

Given that, why would you expect a secretary to want to believe her boss (a nice guy with kids, right?) was a mass murderer on what was then a completely unbelievable scale?

Even right now if I posted undeniable proof on this site that somebody somewhere was systematically exterminating millions of people the majority on this site would call it out as bullshit and as paranoid just because they hadn't heard of it on TV or in the New York Times.

After the fact, though, they'd be "shocked" that no one saw it before and they'd be demanding answers as to why no one said anything about it.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Much of this can be attributed to what's called 'normalcy bias'. It's the human inclination to want to dismiss aberrant information in order to maintain a perceived state of normal.

We see it in every day life even today. The first people in Baton Rouge to observe the rising waters this week refused to even consider that the water would keep rising.

In 2005 a whole shit-ton of people in government and in New Orleans steadfastly refused to believe that there was a genuine disaster about to happen in New Orleans even as it became obvious that a hurricane was coming. And we know how that turned out.

Survivors from the second tower of the World Trade Center reported how other people insisted on remaining at their desks because they couldn't believe that the burning tower 150 feet away might have any relation to their immediate future. Those people died.

And even during WW2 when the Holocaust was in full operation the Western allies refused to believe that the Nazis were slaughtering millions of people and those same people just a few years before refused to believe that the Soviets were slaughtering millions of Ukrianians.

Given that, why would you expect a secretary to want to believe her boss (a nice guy with kids, right?) was a mass murderer on what was then a completely unbelievable scale?

Even right now if I posted undeniable proof on this site that somebody somewhere was systematically exterminating millions of people the majority on this site would call it out as bullshit and as paranoid just because they hadn't heard of it on TV or in the New York Times.

After the fact, though, they'd be "shocked" that no one saw it before and they'd be demanding answers as to why no one said anything about it.

I gotta hand it to you, and give credit where credit is due