+visionsdureel I know this lady through my family, of which one worked within the "Freundeskreis Reischsführer SS" and also met this lady a couple of times on events as well as conferences. He did an interview like this about 10 years ago to a dutch/american historian, the interview ended up in her book with 80% of the conversation left out and she even removed prior sentences and switched them around which if you read this interview now makes you believe my relative is caricature evil nazi scientist who seems confused. This interview ended with her claiming he said something evil at the end, something she filmed, but to this day i had no luck seeing her proof. Her book is considered a reliable scholary work and praised everywhere. Long story short. You better release the full uncut, unedited interview if you want to care about historical research. If this interview is even being cut to "leave out" pauses this old madame makes, i hope everyone watching this is aware that it's not reliable and might be even politically motivated and should be taken with a grain of salt. This is something that happens to alot of our older family members if they are known. Especially if a German company does the interview. I wonder what so many, especially german TV stations, journalists and "historians" are afraid of that they never release an untouched interview. So people, stay alert. if this is full of cuts and has a couple of vague sentences that can easily been taken out of context by removing a word or sentence before what she said, then this is to be watched with a grain of salt. I'm curious though, i got a relative who is still alive at 98 years who knows her from his work with the Reichsführer-SS and the same attending certain occasions. So please, don't mess this up. Just release a complete uncut version together with your cut. That way people can watch both and out-of-contexts and more will be avoided. Cheers from Oberbayern.
I think she would have to be deaf and dumb not to have known about the Shoah. she mixed with the top rank Nazi's: she knew. Goebbels secretary? and she didn't know? how much closer can you get to the top?
yes, you make a clear point. and I respect it. my grandfather fought on the eastern front too. he was an Austrian and he told my mother that he never killed anybody. what we chose to remember and don't chose to remember are two very different things. what we tell others we remember is a choice also. by the end of 1942 the allies knew what was beginning to happen and what went on to happen. Roosevelt, Churchill, the French, all knew and chose to do nothing - didn't whish to upset the common people, was one reason. the idea that a top secretary knew 'nothing,' 'nothing at all,' to me is inconceivable. even if Goebbels didn't tell her personally - she will have known on some level. it was the unspoken truth. remember, this didn't happen in secret, railway workers, bureaucrats, soldiers involved in the loading and unloading, the general public witnessing the deportations on a local level. many many people knew. so I don't buy into her innocence at all. I don't blame her involvement I just don't believe she didn't know - had no idea AT ALL? no. "hidden in plain sight," I think the saying goes. cheers, drew.
+visionsdureel
I know this lady through my family, of which one worked within the "Freundeskreis Reischsführer SS" and also met this lady a couple of times on events as well as conferences. He did an interview like this about 10 years ago to a dutch/american historian, the interview ended up in her book with 80% of the conversation left out and she even removed prior sentences and switched them around which if you read this interview now makes you believe my relative is caricature evil nazi scientist who seems confused. This interview ended with her claiming he said something evil at the end, something she filmed, but to this day i had no luck seeing her proof.
Her book is considered a reliable scholary work and praised everywhere. Long story short.
You better release the full uncut, unedited interview if you want to care about historical research.
If this interview is even being cut to "leave out" pauses this old madame makes, i hope everyone watching this is aware that it's not reliable and might be even politically motivated and should be taken with a grain of salt. This is something that happens to alot of our older family members if they are known. Especially if a German company does the interview.
I wonder what so many, especially german TV stations, journalists and "historians" are afraid of that they never release an untouched interview.
So people, stay alert. if this is full of cuts and has a couple of vague sentences that can easily been taken out of context by removing a word or sentence before what she said, then this is to be watched with a grain of salt. I'm curious though, i got a relative who is still alive at 98 years who knows her from his work with the Reichsführer-SS and the same attending certain occasions.
So please, don't mess this up. Just release a complete uncut version together with your cut. That way people can watch both and out-of-contexts and more will be avoided.
Cheers from Oberbayern.
I think she would have to be deaf and dumb not to have known about the Shoah. she mixed with the top rank Nazi's: she knew. Goebbels secretary? and she didn't know? how much closer can you get to the top?
yes, you make a clear point. and I respect it. my grandfather fought on the eastern front too. he was an Austrian and he told my mother that he never killed anybody. what we chose to remember and don't chose to remember are two very different things. what we tell others we remember is a choice also. by the end of 1942 the allies knew what was beginning to happen and what went on to happen. Roosevelt, Churchill, the French, all knew and chose to do nothing - didn't whish to upset the common people, was one reason. the idea that a top secretary knew 'nothing,' 'nothing at all,' to me is inconceivable. even if Goebbels didn't tell her personally - she will have known on some level. it was the unspoken truth. remember, this didn't happen in secret, railway workers, bureaucrats, soldiers involved in the loading and unloading, the general public witnessing the deportations on a local level. many many people knew. so I don't buy into her innocence at all. I don't blame her involvement I just don't believe she didn't know - had no idea AT ALL? no. "hidden in plain sight," I think the saying goes. cheers, drew.
You lived long to bear witness of the wickedness that lurks in the hearts of men and women who are unrepentant and unsaved.
how can she not remember anything from the most catastrophic even of the last century. and she was in the middle of it all...shame?