Karen Liebreich

Karen Liebreich’s The Black Page: Interviews with Nazi Film-Makers was published in spring 2017.

Typing for Goebbels

Karen Liebreich, 16 February 2017

Brunhilde Pomsel​, one of Josef Goebbels’s secretaries, died on 27 January. I interviewed her in 1991 for a BBC TV series on Nazi film propaganda. In 2011, Bild ran an ‘exclusive’ interview with her, claiming it was the first time she had spoken since the war, but they got very little from her. By then she was a hundred years old. She said she had been obliged to take the...

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