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Brunhilde Pomsel in 2016 in front of posters for the documentary “A German Life,” based on her experiences. Throughout her life, she insisted that she had been ignorant of Nazi atrocities during World War II.
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Brunhilde Pomsel
Died on January 27, 2017 at age 106
Ms. Pomsel was the private secretary of the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and was one of Adolf Hitler’s retinue in his final days in a Berlin bunker.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.