{"id":17005,"date":"2016-07-02T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=17005"},"modified":"2016-07-02T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T02:00:20","slug":"world-war-ii-history-hitlers-poison-propaganda-dwarf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/02\/world-war-ii-history-hitlers-poison-propaganda-dwarf\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II History: Hitler&#8217;s Poison Propaganda Dwarf"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/h1>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17006\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/g2.jpg\" alt=\"G2\" width=\"306\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The last eyewitness to the inner circle of the Nazis has described the party&#8217;s propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels as a &#8216;ranting dwarf&#8217; and a &#8216;big pig&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Brunhilde Pomsel, now 105, was Goebbels&#8217; secretary and got closer to the Nazi centre of power than anyone alive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">From 1942 on, she worked closely with Hitler&#8217;s agitator and seducer of the masses &#8211; the man who conditioned the Germans to hate the Jews and accept their deportations to an unknown fate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Now her recollections of working for the Nazi monster are featuring in a new documentary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17007\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/goebbels1.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"Goebbels1\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><span id=\"ext-gen135\">&#8216;Her personal journey into the past leads to the disturbing question: how reliable is my own moral compass?&#8217; said the filmakers of &#8216;A German Life.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Until the movie was made she had never spoken of her service for Hitler&#8217;s propaganda genius who, together with his wife Magda, took his own life in the Berlin bunker on May 1 1945 after first poisoning their six children one by one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He shot his wife Magda and then himself, but not before they killed their children because neither could stand the thought of them &#8216;growing up in a world without the Fuehrer in it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Frau Pomsel sat down in the Filmpalast cinema in Munich this week as the movie of her life spent in the service of a monster was screened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But she could barely see it; she is almost totally blind. Instead, she listened intently to her recollections of the times interspersed with the manic ravings of the man who was her boss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Goebbels was a big pig,&#8217; she said. &#8216;I&#8217;ve personally done nothing evil, but I blame myself for being, at that time too uninterested in politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I was grown up enough to recognise how the guilty criminals lied. That was very, very stupid of me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">From 1942 onwards she was working for 500 Reichsmarks a month for the man the masses called behind his back &#8216;The Poison Dwarf.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3669579\/Goebbels-ranting-dwarf-big-pig-Nazi-propaganda-chief-s-105-year-old-secretary-reveals-like-work-cold-aloof-narcissist.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last eyewitness to the inner circle of the Nazis has described the party&#8217;s propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels as a &#8216;ranting dwarf&#8217; and a &#8216;big pig&#8217;. Brunhilde Pomsel, now 105, was Goebbels&#8217; secretary and got closer to the Nazi centre of power than anyone alive. 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