She is honest, and that is admirable. She doesn't approve of what Hitler did. But she had a wonderful time working for him, and she is not going to pretend she didn't.
ABC DEF Screw her!!!! She should have killed him when she had an opportunity!!!! Poison or something???, Sneak up behind him with a cord around his neck. .There must of been a way. . she could of stopped the Holocaust!!! ...but no!! she enjoyed his company!!!
Danielchai S - you have some illusions. I don't deny that "everybody knew" that something "bad" was happening. But she believed what she was told. She had spent her childhood in fascist Austria and her youth in Nazi influence. I'm Austrian - with some relatives coming from exactly such villages, small towns that she did - and now being the same age as her. I'm Israeli, too, by the way. I don't feel very comfortable hearing her (it's a discourse I heard often), but she's honest. Back in the day not many (if anyone) from her background would have refused or have any complaints. Many, though, didn't change their minds later, or understand what she finally understood. Many still live in denial (as far as they're still alive anyway).
To me when she said , when she started working there . " For the first time in my life I was not hungry " , is very moving . She is an amazing old lady with a clear memory !
In a country of starving people after sanctions from the world anyone would love her job!! Many Jewish people turned on there own people for food and safety!
@@AMcDub0708 nope, she didn't have any idea that she will become one of Hitler's servants/maid. Her fellow countrymen were also brainwashed by Hitler's ideologies. The opportunity that was given to her is also part of propaganda, if you watched the whole video she didn't tell that the Nazi authorities recruited her without telling the details or giving any contract about her job. Strategy to recruit workers by word of mouth. The difference is the Nazi authorities didn't use violence to her and to her fellow countrymen while the Jewish people who went to Auschwitz were forced laborers. Lots of people in world history were brainwashed because of propaganda, using poverty for opportunity, and hidden agenda of crooked politicians. Even today... most especially if a certain leader has a strong solid ideology and dictatorship, and doesn't give any single amount of compassion about humanity, a leader can turn people into blind follower. Those blind followers were also victims of false hope and toxic positivity. I suggest you guys watch the movie OUR BRAND IS CRISIS.
You could try but you'd have to deal with a bad outcome. Hitler killed his own best general because he thought he may have been part of an assassination attempt. He'd just as easily do away with anyone else who even spoke about it.
She said it was the first time in her life she wasn't hungry. Her experience was significant in so many ways. She was in the middle of history in the making with a point of view of no other, why would she turn her 20 year old self around. Great interview
As an Austrian, the translation about her not being hungry for the first time in her life is wrong. She said "Zum erschtn moi wos i gessn hob was i nu gaunz genau, an Reis mit Eierschwammerl [den i] is erste moi in meim Lebn gessn ghobt hob" which, correctly translated, means that she ate rice with mushrooms for the first time in her life. She doesn't say anything about hunger. There are multiple mistranslations in this video, sadly. I agree with the rest of your comment.
@@retardhunter69 Well that's great to know. Doesn't change my opinion, consider my comment corrected with "she ate rice with mushrooms for the first time. Her experience..."
She was simply surviving. It was either live in a mansion with a secure job and home or continue to not know the feeling of being full from eating. I appreciate her honesty and can tell she’s sincere.
True, all these people saying "Oh why didnt she just kill hitler" like she was 19.. like it still wouldn't have done shit, someone would probably have taken Hitler's place. I mean it's bad that she framed a note signed by hitler along with a jewish artifact. But she is one of the last survivors of WW2. not many people who were alive during that period are still alive. Its apart of history, Like she has 1 thing in the world that is very valuable and it's from that time period. If she was to "Kill hitler" not only would Heinrich himmler and the death squad shoot her on the spot, but she was also fucking 19. She was surviving. People acting like she is the one who sent millions of people to their death. People clearly didnt watch it. She cries about how bad and crazy Hitler was but she enjoyed staying there because she was safe and she had no idea that he was committing atrocities. It's really not her fault.
I don’t have a problem with her taking the job, she was young and it was exciting. I have a problem the way she’s looking back on the experience. No regrets, sounded like a true nazi when she was saying ‘I was proud’ ‘people looked up to me’ then just a casual but it was terrible what they did. She knew more than she’s letting on!
This is a woman who was a maid at Hitler's house. So what? I mean, sure it is interesting, she might even have stories of Hitler in a lighter moment. She killed nobody, she cleaned dishes, cleaned the house, brought Hitler his food... She is no criminal. She is not responsible for anyone's death. I guess you can say she didn't try to kill Hitler, but would YOU have had the courage to do it? I wouldn't have. I would have smiled at Hitler, Eva Braun and their guests. Always happy. People generally don't think of happy people as suspicious. This lady is just fine in my book.
@@MxmdAmn if you put your job aside that mean you afraid........so Talk shit even now in front of Trump or Kim no one will know where your grave is!!! Go back to your statement
@@hamasientnber3130 those guys you mentioned and this old woman are two different people. I was talking about respect and letting her tell her full story but instead we got few details . Fobs like you are everywhere these days
I admire her honesty. Being young she was isolated and secluded from truth and provided with food and security she had never had previously. It was only when she returned home that she faced the reality outside of the world she had been sanctioned to live in. Blessings to her.
She said that her bedroom was so pretty that she didnt want to make it wrinkled, so you can imagine as a young girl she never saw anything like that because she was poor. I admire her for telling her story.
The Posen/Poznan conference somewhat confirms that even very high ranking Nazi (outside of direct Holocaust architects) weren't aware of the horrors. Himmler made a speech at this conference for the explicit reason of implicating other high ranking Nazis.
I respect her honesty. If you put yourself in her shoes, it's kind of hard to blame her. She went from being a poor and hungry young woman to a person with status and a very comfortable life. She also genuinely believed that she was doing a service to her country. Most people today would play down their experiences to avoid the stigma, but I don't know that many people would actually make different choices in her circumstances.
So you would work with a psycopath that killed millions of inocent people over some money and status? Sorry but human life is more important than any material thing, included money.
That's why so many people got caught in it, I mean, the regime-the poverty. She should have known what that ideology was about. Nowadays, we have another similar maniac and drug addict who spreads around hatred, namely W. Putin. Now, to put myself in her shoes, if his delegates came to me and said, "Hey Mr Sławomir, would you like to work for Mr Putin, say as his driver?". My answer is "No. Go to hell with your f...g job. I don't work for war criminals. " There are more important things in life than money and prestige. If I were to accept the offer, it would be only to poison the bastard 😂 Regards
According to what I found on an Austrian obituary page, Elisabeth passed away in March 2022 at the age of 97. May she rest in peace and may we continue to thank her for sharing her incredibly insightful story to be preserved for future generations of historians.
@@dave.dunphy940 She wasn't even out of her teens when she took that job. You will judge her now for things she did then, when she never knew the horrors being committed or could even fully comprehend them at the time? Understand psychology and the complexities of it before you blindly judge others.
I'm not sure it was THAT insightful. "He was so nice to his dog". "It is what it is" as they say, if she were a butler then I doubt we'd all congratulate her. At the same time, I'm in Canada, our GOVERNMENT had a standing order policy to not allow any jews in, with one govenrment official sayig "one jew is too many". Its recorded that at LEAST one ship was stopped at the port, denied entry, then returned to Germany and those on board perished. Its not like a lot of people have a high moral horse they can sit on, the comments on an anti war rally has commenters saying 'we need a strong military, we need to go kick butt'. So its hardly the case that we all turned our swords into plowshares today. How many people worked for George Bush Jr, who started a war just as illegal as the invasion of Poland. Would we praise a maid at the white house for telling a story about how George one time spoke kindly to her?
@@mikearchibald744 I’m a historian, and any first-hand accounts of major historical periods from *any* angle are insightful and are sometimes the most intriguing. The fact that she was a) an employee who had access to one of the most influential and secure institutions in Europe at the time and b) was alive at the time of filming to tell the story, make her valuable to a historian. It’s not necessarily the fact that she was once in the same room as Hitler, but that she had access to his inner world that was seen as an enigma to so many (not defending Hitler here folks, history has to be written about the repulsive ones too). I know professors of WWII history that would have scrambled at the chance to have her speak to their classes. We have plenty of accounts from the diaries of Queen Victoria herself, but what of her footmen who stood in the room as she met with her Prime Ministers to discuss the nation’s most sensitive issues at the time? They would have been able to contribute stories (often with little bias) and documents that may change our understanding of how a public figure of the time was perceived. Stories from everyday figures like these often complete the picture when it comes to our understanding of a certain era. It’s the teaching and recording of history, no matter how minute it’s perceived to be, that ultimately allows us to help prevent the unsavory parts from being repeated.
I graduated college so that I can type with incorrect grammar if i want bro, i really don't see what your goal is here, i doubt you have achieved anything in life that gives you the gall to be a Grammar Nazi in the youtube comment section.
Buffalo State man, it wasn't the best but got the job done, not too sure what you're trying to prove here, but my bad for the spelling mistake I suppose.
I wish I got to meet my great grandmother from Poland. She died after few months I was born. She got to see me and hold me as a baby but I wish I can time travel to go see her.
Dangerous? You mean the part where Germany was taken from a depression to the best economy in the world in under 6 yrs? The fact they shut down Gender studies Universities? Burning of Pornography and outlawing it? Stopping the bakers from destroying the country further? People werent blind back then.
@@LARamsEmpire You people have been so propagandized you are iconic definition of "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" Not sure if your aware but the consensus around the world is that American's don't know any history. Seems like more effort is focused on gender and social studies or whatever pseudo subjects are invented this decade. Right now, you are the person going around telling everyone that the black people are coming to stamp you like the old lady was saying.
And there it is, the random stupid Trump comment. Must everything always have to refer to him? It's not funny. At this point the horse is dead. Please stop beating it. Let it go FFS.
@@Nigelsmom2136 TDS is one hell of a drug eh? It could be a cat video and some numpty will spout on something about thew man. Asylums need to be made Great again and Men in white coats given the go ahead to house them.
6:24 "It was the first time in my life I wasn´t hungry" - how do you tell a very poor young girl not to work at a mansion, where the most "admired" person , at the time , lived?
You're right. You did not even have to be young. However, it's not translated correctly. She says it was the first time she did eat that kind of meal. Nevertheless, as she says before 2:30 : everyone had been poor. That includes starvation. If you watch film material of that time, you almost only see people who are extremely lean. I know stories of a few relatives (I'm German) where in cultivated families children would have fought each other over a slice of bread, the parents had to distribute exact shares for everyone, every day, for years. Children going to school in the snow without winter clothes. Classrooms where in winter ink had to be put on the oven to melt it, so you could write with it, because the classroom was that cold. As she says at 2:40: The people in the village drew hope from ONE meal of goulash that the military served. That says something about the conditions under which your mind just circles around staying alive. There are so many things told out of context and oversimplified, especially in German schools. It's sad. Then, on the other hand: how many people care about getting informed? Audiatur et altera pars. And listen to those who are honest. Like this woman. It's easy to incite further hate with stories of wartimes.
Plasma Plasma John Doe - Did you just say that Hitler’s winning man of the year was justified and good? This woman was well treated, and STILL ate the leftovers off of the plates.
@@Watchingitnow-b2r Yes. Conscripted soldiers who would of been killed by Nazi regime if they did not partake in the war and follow orders. Not just them but their families as well. Tell me something. If someone came to you and pointed a gun at your head but not just yours but your brother, sister , wife and child. Would you bend the knee and fight to keep them alive or rebel and watch them all die?
She was an historic treasure, and it is sad that we lost her, and that she did not share her experiences sooner. It is a huge loss, especially now that so very few are remaining, when someone so close to a major event in world history dies, and all their direct knowledge and memories die with them.
Big respect on Elizabeth on her honesty , like no one would admit that they had a great time working with Hitler, but she did. She grew up in starve and working with Hitler could make her feel full, it is like this was the only choice for her by that time , Hitler might do a lot of bad things but luckily he hired this historical treasure so that we can see this interview today. Rest in peace legend, we hope you had a better after life.
It's so ridiculous this interviewer attempts to shame her at the end. Coming from a poor village with nothing to working for the most powerful person in europe. Anyone would have taken that job! They just used her for the story and threw her to the curb at the end. Poor lady.
@@DavidJones-pc9jn wha- Why? Violence is never the silatuion no matter how angry you are at someone. You would become just as terrible as the one's you think were terrible before. There is no excuse of hurting anyone,of any race or religion. This women was young,maybe naive. She came from a poor family,and needed a job,maybe she didn't know any better. You can see that she is not proud of Hitler's actions and that she doesn't think that what he was doing was right,and neither do I. I don't want to attack you,or make you feel bad. I just simply wanna tell you that everyone deserves a second chance,and so does this woman.
I don't really see it. She essentially asked that in hindsight, it was a bad idea to work there, and she gave a very human response. I've seen people "thrown to the curb" in interviews and if this was such, it was certainly the most gentle version I've ever seen.
14:20 There's a big translation mistake that I want to point out here. I'm German and I understand everything she says. *She's speaking in **_present tense_** about how she felt at the time when she was actually there, at the Berghof!* But the actual English subtitle is in _simple past_ - making it seem like she says that she's proud that she was there. *That's wrong* and I don't know if it's purposefully wrong (to make it look more dramatic) which saddens me. Peace out.
THat makes sense, and is how I understood it to be. Of course she was proud at the time, but why would she be proud to this day in her wise old years? You make perfect sense.
@@Blackpanthersrevenge This was aired on the Israeli news channel and I remember the original Hebrew subtitles very well as I saw it live. they were correct as Lightnings explained above, even the part where she called him a clown which is not translated in English here. It was uploaded to UA-cam a few days later and probably was translated to English by a less capable translator. You talk out of your ass.. The interviewers treated her with respect and nothing bad was said about her in the press at all. in fact it was seen as admirable that she was truthful. Germany and Israel have very good relations currently and this is cherished. When this was aired on the news people showed respect to her unlike you. so your just an ass. @ Lightnings , I hope my first paragraph cleared it up mate. thanks for noting this Peace out
Austrian here to report some minor inaccuracies in the translation of her dialect. At 6:17 for example, she's talking about rice with golden chanterelles ("Eierschwammerln"), not rice with eggs and mushrooms ("Eiern und Schwammerln"). Also, she doesn't say it was the first time in her life that she wasn't hungry, but that she never had that meal before.
@@lorir5728 Yes, it was. She was more or less quoting the propaganda though. Still, I'm pretty sure she'd have chosen this word herself as well. But you'll have to consider - and please don't get me wrong on this - since there were nearly no black people in Austria until about 50 years ago, there was basically no sensibility for this topic, so I don't think she meant it in a malicious way. Also, in my experience, the German "Neger" is generally a tiny bit less hateful than the English counterpart with an "i" and double "g".
I don't think this woman was involved in the decision making of any of the “final solution” or “what country should we invade next?” questions. I think she was more involved in the, “Which chocolate should I put on the pillow?” and “Should I open the window and let fresh air into the room ?” questions.
Germans didn't know about the concentration camps and didn't know about all the bad things the nazis did. They were brainwashed by hitler and I doubt this lady knew any better about everything when not even high ranked officers knew everything. So no, she's not a bad person and hitler did treat her well so I don't blame her for having good memories from when she was working for him. Now she understands how bad he was.
Why does she have to regret her life, she was a young kid it wasn’t her fault she had a job offer. There is nothing to say, it is terrible what hitler did, it’s not this lady’s fault she was just a maid telling her part of the story.
Amanda Walker She doesn’t have to apologise or regret anything. George W. Bush is a war criminal and you don’t see his maids regretting or apologising for simply living their lives.
I don't blame her at all, clothes, food, pride, admiration. Far more people have done worse than wash dishes for anyone of those things. This prejudice towards her is ridiculous. She was given an opportunity of a lifetime.
yeah... it's hard to think that someone would look back on those years as fond given everything we now know. On one hand you really don't blame her. On the other, it's interesting that the memories of the prisoners she met after the liberation don't affect her sense of pride of the opportunity she took. It's almost like "well that didn't happen to me, so I'm not sure what I would say to myself".
At that time in the war such things were impossible to get. The only time when the rich and the poor were equal to suffer the war. So she might would have died in the war if she wouldn't get the job, after all, the job keeps her safe and disconnected from the war although she knew what's going on.
@@aktan4ik: You are a fanatic, and thus nothing better than a fanatical Nazi or fanatical communist or a fanatical Muslim. You would not have thought that you are the same, but that's the way it is !!!
I love that she made peace with her past and is sharing her story. Sometimes we can't see big truths until later on, everyone is just doing their best until they know better. Bless her.
Mary Mukamb pretty sure this is an austrian dialect, I come from bavaria so I understand it cause the bavarian dialect is similar to the austrian dialect. Dont worry bc you dont understand it, germans that dont understand bavarian dont understand the austrian dialect either.
@@brownasiankid1782 No need to try, she IS guilty. As all of Hitler's supporters were. "We didn't know" gets very old, very fast... Yes they did know, she described the destruction of the Jewish stores, she sw the beatings... and she HEARD the conversations. I'll tell you right now, if I was offered a job at Mar-a-lago, I would not take it!!!
@@abelis644 Yea thats right, you were there right? You KNOW what people saw and KNEW what people knew. Stop talking about things you know NOTHING about.
@@jojomo7859 Don't be ridiculous, look at the US right now, do you NOT think that the cleaning, cooking, gardening etc staff in the White House and at Maralago don't hear and see what tRump is up to??? Are you draft? You cannot be that dumb... lol
I applaud her honesty and courage to admit that she was swept up in the movement like most others. A lot of people in and around the Nazi Party were liars after the war. They swore that they never enjoyed it or they never knew what was really going on. This old lady is fully aware of the attacks she could receive for telling the truth. But she tells it anyway. Which is why I don't condemn her. In fact I respect her and am glad that she came forward to tell us this interesting story.
I didn't get that impression at all. I feel like she wasn't doing it to be brutally honest, but more dropped herself in it without realising. I also felt that her remorse wasn't genuine and I wasn't getting enough from her in that respect. I didn't leave the video feeling too good about her, but is interesting to see many people like yourself who think the opposite.
@@shanie1396 why? Because she's old and didn't shed a tear or something? You wanted her to CRY and she didn't, so she's FAKING it? She might be sorta sad but not REALLY? is what you're getting at? Just because YOU cry doesn't mean EVERYONE ELSE has to. Ookkkkkayyyy
@@daviedood2503 Its the impression I got, nothing to get triggered by. Go vent your anger on those who actually deny the holocaust ever happened 🙄 I haven't said anything disrespectful.
@@daviedood2503 I'm sorry, I can't take someone serious who thinks the term triggered actually relates in any way to people getting shot, or presumes that someone who wears makeup is a "thot" as you so eloquently put it. Think what you will about my intentions, the reason I am here watching these videos is to inform myself about the atrocities that took place, with ZERO disrespect on my part. I simply made an observation and an opinion. Taking into account the concept the whole video is based on, my comment is the least thing you should be getting worked up about. But crack on, I have no interest in you or your presumptions. However it is always interesting to see people throw out insults when a difference in opinion is made.
I could tell the interviewer did not like what she was hearing. At the end, she tried to bully Elisabeth into saying what she, the interviewer, wanted to hear.
The fact that they asked her a question she couldn’t answer at the end and still proceeded to make her feel bad for it the woman was nearly crying! Absolutely horrible. Don’t use the poor women just to get a video out of her
Just out of curiosity, is the one who did the video Jewish or have Jewish relations? Don’t hate me here, but making her cry like that, I’m thinking it was a sick twisted revenge of sorts. Disturbing.
Scott Magill i love how people are so uneducated like you that they think any german during the war that didnt want to be thrown in jail, did what the nazis said, is now automatically a nazi sympathizer.
@ijcn0jir3nvjn3fjcifn If you can't figure out the meaning behind her words, then you have no clue how to figure out complex answers and probably shouldn't be watching this video.
Look, I am Jewish and I probably would have felt exactly like she did. She was young, excited, finally around luxury, beauty and bounty. She was around the most powerful person in the country. It must have been glorious and intoxicating. She was a chosen one. Hitler was all about beauty and obsession with beauty. I imagine his house, the food the surroundings were layered with it. It must have been a delight to live there during such an exciting time. Yes, horrible things came from it, but one can be flexible enough to understand her point of view.
The subtitles are not correct. She doesn't say "It was the first time in my life I wasn't hungry." She said: "What I ate there ( at the Berghof) for the first time, I still remember exactly : rice with Eierschmarren. I ate this for the first time in my life." Word explanation: Eierschmarren = a beaten egg, which is mixed with milk and flour, baked in the pan.
That was probably an unfair question to ask her, "Would you turn away?" She was a young poor girl, not even generals and soldiers told Hitler "no." Also, it's unethical to imply she was a contributor to the war in anyway, even an unwitting one. Thank you for telling your story and for "Delly Fina" for correcting the translations. Propaganda everywhere.
It was a question asked by a reporter who was obviously very proud that she'd landed this interview. What would this reporter say to her 20-year-old self? Oh wait. She's only 20 now. That explains a lot.
I'm an American, born and raised. My grandmother was born in Munich Germany. I remember coming home from school one day, and telling her how we learned about Hitler, and how horrible of a person he was. She looked at me with a look of anger I had never seen before. I don't remember the conversation word for word, but she told me that before Hitler came to power, the Economy was HORRIBLE. It was after WW1, and just before WW2. She said they had to wait in line 3 hours or longer just to get a loaf of bread! Sometimes, they would get nothing. When Hitler came into power, the economy flourished, and people and their families could eat a good meal. Something most Americans take for granted. I'm not saying Hitler was a good man, but I try to envision living in a world where you can barely feed your family, and then all of a sudden, a new man comes into power, and your family can live a better life and eat good. Now that I'm older, I can understand my grandmother's point of view. Perception is everything, and propaganda is King. R.I.P. Oma. I miss you
Yes, for a few years, if you weren't Jewish, mentally handicapped, Romani, or homosexual, life was better and food was plentiful in Germany. Then the massacres and holocaust started, along with the most destructive war ever: many tens of millions of people died, including around 8 million Germans - almost an entire generation of young German men. It's quite hard for me to understand your grandmother's perspective as she should have been aware of _all_ of the above by the time she scolded you. I'm sorry to say it, but it looks like she was a Nazi sympathizer.
this is a myth lmao, only for the affluent and upper middle class did things get better and it was from fed from the unsustainable profits of a war economy. For the vast majority of germans, the working class, things got worse. Inflation rose, wages were cut, all for the fatherland. They were told to like it and work. Not to mention the minor economic boost to those in the upper class could have been achieved through smart economic policy and they could have made even more than they did. Instead of a war that murdered millions of people.
Thats what some people do not understand when they make silly comments about the times before WW2 started. For Germans it was a great time of prosperity and like You said, they could feed their families and finally make a good living. Unemployment dropped dramatically and the economy was booming. You can't hate on the people who lived in those times and went with the flow of things, since everything at that time was really good for the German people.
I think it all comes down to integrity and morals. How far will you go to survive? Let's use a drug dealer or stripper for example. Do you take pride in the choice you made and those that disgrace those that argue its not the most moral living or do you admit it's not the best choice but it was the fast option available at the time to survive.
She reminds me of my Austrian grandmother and grand aunt who lived in Austria near Salzburg not far from the Berghof area. My grandmother, father, uncle and aunt stayed in the Czech rep during the war when they were children. Grandfather passed away while in the Austrian army stationed in Italy.
She was honest. Being so young at that age, it was natural that she must have felt proud working for the leader of her country. And also it is unlikely that she was aware of the atrocities committed by him and the gravity of those acts. She just did her job. She should not be made to feel guilty about it.
@@memethingz6004 She survived, where so many didn't. There was terrible hunger in all of Germany, and she was probably able to send some money back to her family. Being at the Berghoff, I very much doubt she got out very much and didn't have a car, so she truly didn't know what was going on in the camps. Or, she heard something here or there while working, but maybe not enough to know what it all meant. I'm usually Very sceptical about Germans from this period, but she seems different.
So glad this sweet woman had a chance to be interviewed...fascinating to hear her thoughts and experiences and above all, her honesty. Thank you for the upload.
Lol funny how the never do the same docu inter of the Genocidal murderers in occupied Palestine.... Oh my bad .. never again means never us again.. but let's kill all others.
It becomes impossible not to have a profound respect for this woman's honesty and transparency. She is actually genuine, melding the good and the bad. Her initiation into this realm was wholly innocent. She was sequestered from all 'badness'. And, to this 'dilemma' one could honestly ask why did Hitler choose a Jewish bodyguard (Emil Maurice, who was a member of the SS until 1945) and why were there so many Jews in Hitler's army (thousands of full Jews and more than 100 thousand part-Jews)? We are not supposed to probe so deeply but all this does is further exonerate Elizabeth Kalhammer's image. For political reasons, my post might be deleted, but the truth will never be denied. - David Lyga
@GreekForTruth1 In the words of my grandfather: "It is weird how fast people get used to such things. Family members dying, training everyday, jews being brought away. It helps you survive in bad times but it also keeps you ignorant. People now can't imagine getting used to such horrors, but we all did. Everyone knew what was happening to the jews to some extend, the hate was there. The people just either ignored or supported it. Because they got used to it. Because they didn't care anymore. " He was 16 when the war ended and he visited a nazi boarding school in the war. He tried to flee multiple times. He was descriminated because he visited a nazi school eventhhough it wasn't his fault. This here is the same. If you are a servant of a person like Hitler and you are young, you don't know what is right and what is wrong. Poisoning him would result in your death and you might profit from serving him. No one is telling you you should poison him. It's easy to pretend it was that easy from your laptop. If you were there, you wouldn't have done it either.
You really believe that in those 2 years and all the guests they had over that time that she never heard anything about what was going on especially at times when the guests were drunk?I sense she knew a lot more than what she said from her body language and eyes.
@@Trajan2401 She was an irrelevant coworker. And killing anyone, is in almost every situation a bad choice. She would have risked her own life, and she was too young and insecure to know that killing hitler would have been the right choice.
The problem is that we will see the same thing in our lifetime :-( There's so many terror groups now it's hard to tell which one will start it. If only our voices weren't being silenced by the left.
I agree that both sides have extremist but only the right has a monopoly on multimedia since tech companies are mainly staffed by left leaning people. @@DrJones20
Good translation, but a few things were quite wrong. She actually never really said that they had to be quiet, or that it had to be silent around the house. For example during the dinner, tranlation was along the lines of: "We had to stay silent in the kitchen", when she actually said something like "we were having fun in the kitchen". Anoter one was when she talked about him in the end and said he was crazy, and they translated: "How could he be allowed to do such a thing?" she actually said: " How could a country follow such a ´Thing´ ".
Interesting that she actually said, "how could the country allow..." and not " how could he be allowed..". Because she knows in the back of her mind she was an enabler of him and is after 80 years still in denial. If the whole country is to blame that abdicates some of her responsibility.
S. Adam Bernstein - How could she have consciously been an enabler st the time she was working there? She didn't know much about politics anyway, so that's just armchair moral grand standing from your side. And I would bet that 99.5% of the job searching females would have seen it as an honour to be chosen by the Führer as a chamber maid (your job description 'enabler') at the time. It's easy enough to judge from behind the screen and a 70 year gap in between what we would have done or not done if we 'knew'. I could be such a smart guy and claim now 'how could anyone let Stalin and the Bolsheviks kill over 5 million Ukrainians during the Holodomor in 1931/32? All these terrible enablers.... ' It's quite easy to judge history on grounds of our current set of values and be outraged about just everything really. 'How could this and how could that' Well if you are really curious I am afraid the only way to find out might be to use a time machine and go back in time and see for yourself .... rather than just calling a chamber maid an enabler because you were lucky enough to not live at that time and possibly be called an enabler now yourself for providing trivial services like providing flowers or dry cleaning Hitler's cloth'.
This is amazing! Love to see history documented. To hear the thoughts and memories of a person who was actually there and saw it all happen, that's priceless!🙏
This lady should not feel shame or guilt for her good teenage memories no one should either. That reporter made her feel guilty, bullying a 92 year old woman ✌
It's hard to not get emotional when you see the look on this poor lady's face when the interviewer was reading the billboard. You could see the pain and sadness in her expression.
I don't blame her for longing for those days! Since she had such good memories working for Hitler and only discovered the atrocities afterwards, it would be so hard to connect the two experiences to the same man. It wouldn't feel real. Like, can you imagine having the best life for two years with an excellent employer, then learning that they had murdered millions?
exactly. We really have to empathize with this woman's experience and put aside our bias in order to understand why she wouldn't feel bad about working for Hitler.
Heather Larson Whites are being massacred and thrown out of Africa just for being white ...makes you second guess if the Nazis are really so different than other races
+Heather Larson I _empathize_ with Hitler. He was a broken man who had been shattered long before he came to power, who needed absolute control over all that he could get just to feel comfortable and have any measure of safety, he was steadily devolving into madness and drug abuse as the war turned against him. In many ways he was a sad man destroyed by his father's abusive and constant strikes as well as his mother's over caring creating a very very damaged psyche. I understand why he came to where he was and what made him who he was. I am no apologist, I would never support him except in jest and mockery, but it is important to research and learn history so as it does not happen again, and the way that such a man came to be and grew in power. +Samuel Dement Not the allies, Soviet Union. The Soviet Union did things comparable to either, though FDR was a terrible president and did do one thing comparable, while comfortable and absolutely nothing like the German work camps the Japanese internment camps were still utterly wrong and disgusting abuse of power.
"I would have killed him". Yes, well, nice luck trying such a move. His SS would have destroyed you at the first glance. This isn't like movies or videogames. Such a move would be stupid in her condition (she doesn't has military training), she didn't had access to weapons really, and in general she didn't had a plot-armor protecting her, nor she was something like a "commando". She only could work, obey, and let the course of time flow.
She is either part of History or was merely a bystander, she either actively took part in the decision making that was turning the world into a grave or she simply knew Hitler. Is she to be respected and revered because she worked for a man whose aim was to turn the world into a wasteland. Or was she just another person who vaguely knew him. In which way do you respect her?
@@alberttatlock5237 If you look her up you will find she she was instrumental in the final solution plan this vile person used the cover as a maid to implement her plan. What better cover than to pose as a maid,nobody will try to assassinate you.! She was more dangerous than Hitler!
@@georgejones4435 yes she served them, nothing to be ashamed about doing the noble job of domestic service. She couldn't choose to serve non-nazis in 1938 Austria could she? What do you suggest she should do for a living? Or maybe she should have starved to death waiting for the denazification of Austria to pick a job?
@@georgejones4435 She didnt know he was putting people in camps, etc. You should be more open- minded. Her honesty is good. I'm personally glad she got to have a better life for a few years.
@@georgejones4435 but also to add onto what I said, those things that hitler did..were his OWN decisions. No one else is to blame but him. She has nothing to be ashamed of. Be respectful of other experiences.
I'm glad she embraces her experiences there. It's part of what makes you who you are. She had no idea of what the Nazis were up to in those camps. Few did. My grandmother was not even from Germany but when my family fled to Germany during the war, like all children she had to join the Hitler youth. Did not make her a bad person or a nazi - it is just the way it was. I grew up with a lot of German culture as a result of my family's time in Germany during the war. In a way, Hitler's actions made my birth possible - no war, no fleeing the country, my grandparents never meet, and I am never born - so even now, I think of it as something indelibly linked to my existence.
I believe she is sincere. I enjoyed her story. For the first time she was living in a nice home and not hungry. If you've ever wondered where your next meal was coming from then you can easily understand her motivation and her pride. She mentioned that with her papers she could go anywhere she wanted. That was quite a luxury during those times.
@ellenfrancis67 I mean when the troops came and fed them, in the beginning. I hadn't watched it through, though, when I wrote that; it was a bit shocking, the end. But at least she was honest, which isn't easy, considering the prompting from the interviewer. It's memories of her younger days and she says she didn't know what was going on, at least not the extent of it. Hard to know when you're in the midst of der Führer's 2nd home. She certainly felt for the starving freed prisoners - but she doesn't seem to care a whole lot. It's weird to see her smiling. She did express sorrow and disbelief. Ach, people on UA-cam just like to argue and fight.
@ellenfrancis67 I certainly do regret my wrong decisions! Not sure I feel shame. Then again, I never killed anybody. But neither did she.. Shame seems like blame or guilt: a generally pointless act (unless, again, criminals). She had a job. Okay, it wasn't just any job.. But she was only a maid: not a secretary or confidant. They got perks. He was like a king! She ate his left-overs: woo-hoo. The only thing is when she said she was thinking, "Poor man," when the war was ending: that he was so "broken". Well, that's not the only thing.. Anyhow, who knows. Was every German a Nazi, then? Maybe. Honestly, I'm not a history expert. I wasn't even a great student, sadly, tho I love to read now, tho I lack time. - Just fell asleep on tablet and erased rest of this: heck w/ it, have other responsibilities. Peace.(It thanked you for your temperate response, plus said - well I forgot. Oh: her reaction during footage of Kristallnacht rang hollow to me, and I gave the finger to the computer screen. So who knows. Not sure I care [about debating it].)
When a young interviewer, not even alive at the time, asks the completely unrealistic, inapplicable question, "would you do it differently if you could go back, knowing what you know now," it reveals a total lack of appreciation of the reality of the situation back then, when people were literally just trying to find food so as not to starve. Also, don't forget that even just a mere three years (3!) prior to any military action, Roosevelt, Chamberlain, and the IOC were so charmed with the rebound of Germany and its impressive leader, that they supported his request for the 1936 Olympics and he was awarded it! So, how on earth could anyone ask this lady if she would go back and give up the security of food and shelter, provided by the same man who was given a very public stamp of approval by the leaders of the Western world, and voluntarily return herself to a state of continuous insecurity, hunger and worry of day to day survival? In the 60s we used to reply to such intellectual mumbo jumbo questions: "Hey man, I'm livin in the here and the now! Not in some fantasy world." She was only doing what anyone would have done to survive, and was grateful for the blessing that came her way. To ask if she would go back and not accept the position based on knowledge revealed later, just so that she would never have to admit that she worked for Hitler, is a nonsense question. I wonder if this interviewer would ask the same question of the house servant of Stalin, ie. if she would go back and decline her job offer due to what a monster he turned out to be? What about Hitler's gardener? Should he go back and refuse the work that put food on his children's table? SILLY questions that do not apply.
I'm still waiting for a movie abt the Bolshevic's reign of terror in Eastern Europe from Hollywood. But most of their victims were Christians so we will never see one.
It's hard for us in hindsight to contemplate the full context of the 30s. It takes a lot of studying and background information to really grasp how different the geopolitical and economical situations were in those days. It's a serious reading journey to undertake.
Also, don't forget that even just a mere three years (3!) prior to any military action, Roosevelt, Chamberlain, and the IOC were so charmed with the rebound of Germany and its impressive leader, that they supported his request for the 1936 Olympics and he was awarded it! what an absolutely disgusting remark of yours! and sadly probably even 100% true.
ellenfrancis67 shut the fuck up you idiot! where you there at the time? the people had nothing to eat, most of them saw two wars and had to fight their whole life long. i am impressed by her and all the others who survived such a brutale time! there are assholes everywhere and in every sociaty so shut up and don’t judge, because you know nothing
ellenfrancis67 you wouldn’t have done anything if you were her at the time too. They were all most likely part of the hitler youth corrupted and filled with propaganda. Most likely didn’t have a mind of their own.
What I found fascinating was when she said she saw Hitler standing outside in the rain, in a blue rain coat, just standing there..."Poor man". Man...she saw a moment of Hitlers life that no one else would have witnessed. I am glad it was said in this interview. Things like that...those little up close and personal experiences...make me really ponder and think.
Let's be honest, he was losing a war and was thinking about how he fucked it up by invading Russia too close to winter and will probably shoot himself in the head in his bunker🤷
@@Othillde You are right that one is quite facinating and bizarre. I guess it's the things that come from becoming a figure of historical significance, which sounds affuly praising talking about the man commonly accepted to be the epitome of evil.
@@nicholas9667 Not really surprising that she waited so long. Even in modern society, Germany is finding the most odd random people to charge with crimes as if to pat themselves on the back. The most recent I know about being a random unknown bookkeeper that was 93 years old and charging them with 1,000,000 counts of accessory to murder, publicly scolding them and sentencing them to prison. A man that lived the last 70+ years raising a family, taking care of grandchildren, working his ass off for decades until retirement, never once breaking the law whatsoever and living what most would consider to be a perfect life. These are people that genuinely had no other choice. It was life or death and now punishing them at the end of their life because they were "morally responsible" because they did what they had to do to survive. What good does that do other than to virtue signal?
bad interview, they wanted her to feel guilty, at the time, she was young, and nieve, she didnt know the atrocities that were taking place, all she knew was there was a job for her, that at that time was coveted by many, she felt special, and was well taken care of at bad time. she did nothing wrong. and of course knowing what she knows now, she would have told her young self to avoid it.
Bullshit. She was a grown woman. Being “young” doesn’t excuse shit. She was evil like him, she may have changed NOW. But I don’t buy her “testimony”. We all are capable of the same evil as them if we are put into the same predicament, those without Jesus anyway..
1999 Damn right I wouldn’t kill him. I’m not saying she should have. Grant it I don’t get peoples mindset when they offer that theory. I’m saying that she was a grown woman, she differentiated between right and wrong. I don’t think using the “she was young” excuse really justifies anything. She was around maybe what? In her early to mid 20’s. I’m the same age. I would be fully aware of what was going on, we humans are not as good as we like to think we are. We’re all capable of evil.
@@User-hy6ur I am sure that she was not exactly aware of all the awful things Hitler was doing, especially when she got hired. It 's not like she could have just quit. Since she was close, she could've known things that he didn't want other people to know and if she expressed that she did not want to work there anymore she probably would have been killed. She was told what Hitler wanted her to hear, just like all of the other people he manipulated. She did not know the extent of damage that he caused until after she escaped. If you are fed biased information and propaganda and nothing else, you will believe anything. So no, it is not her fault. This was during a war. So to her, she was on the good side and the other side was bad. So the "differentiation between good and bad" that you spoke of would be distorted. And calling her "evil" is a major stretch. She washed dishes and cleaned for him. That's it. It's not like she was a Nazi soldier.
@@User-hy6ur she only worked there as a maid. If she didnt worked there, someone else would have done it. It's not like she was a war criminal or soldier, she was just doing her work
What's irritating about this interview is the reporter's flagrant bias. Sure, it's impossible to not have an opinion on this subject, but a good reporter knows the importance of keeping an interview as unbiased as possible, letting the subject tell their story and the consumers to draw their own conclusions.
I love how she really does want to answer the questions honestly.. She really does say how it was exciting at the time. And when the interviewer asks, what would you say to yourself before you took the job... It isn't really a fair question.. Are you asking.. can you travel in time and tell the younger "you" that the terrible stuff would happen. Or are you asking... knowing what you knew at the time, would you do anything differently.... I think she honestly answers that, "At the time, we didn't know any better."
Exactly she is pushing the old lady where she wants her, because you can see the unbelieve in the eyes of the interviewer. And the old lady is honest about that time, respectfull!! Guess the old lady could better tell her story to a more objective interviewer, maby the BBC or ZDF, but maby the BBC is better they make great documentaries
@@chellyr4972 i complain when i want.......if you can read i stand up for the old lady, respectfull how honest she is!! The interviewer sits there whit an attitude and disbelieve about her past! Nobody can tell what you have done in those days, i am not the only one that "complain" about the attitude of the intervieuwer and music, therefore i said maby the BBC can talk whit the old lady they know how to make an objective intervieuw!
dabigcat if we were all asked if we could go back to when we were 17 years old we would all make changes. I would not have married the same wife or taken the same job or made the same financial decisions. It all worked out fine in the long run but there would have been a lot of different choices made.
Ist kein alter österreichischer Dialekt, so spricht man immer noch hier bei uns. ;) Bin Österreicher und habe sie gut verstanden, kann mir aber gut vorstellen, dass jemand, der nur Hochdeutsch spricht, es nicht so gut versteht.
It's not like I've never seen an Austrian in the flesh before ;) Seriously though, I don't normally have any trouble understanding you guys, even when you're not being extra nice because one of us Northerners is around. I can still only make out two out of every three words she's saying. Maybe it's just because she's really old already :B
She was just a young, unexperienced girl who got a fantastic job. How in hell could she know what should happen in the future? She has nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to be blamed for! This is a very bad and biased interview. I would have heard her describing the life on Berghof instead of hearing her beeing forced to defending herself .
@@gdanieltube of course she knew Jews (AND OTHERS) were being beaten. Most of the Communists were Jews. So yes they would get the brunt. And then when International Jewish boycott came (there is no record of any Jews being harmed for being Jewish until the Jews came for Hitler's money... History is full of atrocities when money is messed with... Look what Japan did when America wrongly embargoed their oil access) they basically made their people sitting ducks as they knew they had no way to save them from what they had just started.
@@ginabraun8843 When the Jews came for Hitler's money? I think if you were to check your facts, you'll find it was quite the opposite. Please don't advertise stupidity like this.
The German word "Neger" is commonly used even today in Germany. Only the younger Generation stopped using it because of "PC" Reasons. This word isnt consodered racist by normal people....its öike saying calling someone "white" is racist.
Werner Heisenberg no... calling someone black is the same as calling someone white. Racial slurs are not normal and not okay. Don’t try to make it sound like they are.
Yeah that was just pure bullshit. It's easy to stand up to tyranny when that guy has been dead for decades and you don't have to go hungry like this poor woman did back then.
@@kristinpfanku3927 young or old you can't hide ..when she went home and understood who she was working for she hide it from from her village..but still in the interview she holds on to the Christmas card from Hitler..that is awful
@@felixandersen3815 my father grew up hungry and he did not cave to Hitler and communist all around the world..Evil is Evil and we have to be ready to say no to what is wrong ..no matter what. My father taught me that it's better to be hungry than to hate yourself the rest of your life or worse going to hell
She was not held accountable, she's not demonized, I don't understand why people are so crazy in this comment section. She just shared her story, as a living person who had daily face to face interaction with the devil.
I am therefore I think, as I recall the interviewer asked her a question framed in such a way as to have her denounce her own involvement with Hitler or be seen as sympathetic to his actions. That is what motivated my comment. I wish you well.
I think that's a natural thing to ask, if I one day find out that my boss is the god of all psychos, who killed millions of people, I will lose my mind, and it's natural for someone ask me how I feel. My point is Elizabeth was in the devil's nest, that alone doesn't make her innocent. But she was working there, she's been brainwashed.
The interviewer was trying to get her to say she regretted it, but why would she, she had a fanstastic time in a beautiful place, somewhere she felt lucky to work. We try to hold the people of a nation to account for the war crimes of the few. They didn't have any power back then, anymore than we do today. 'Austria was blinded...' the same could be said for the Russian people now. I'm glad she shared her insights, it's fascinating, important and part of our history.
Self-declared history experts: "Why didn't she kill him?" People with a rational mind: "That's an interesting interview. It helps to understand Hitler and the Nazi time"
As a Historian, I’m more inclined to the latter than the former. It’s honestly fascinating (and RARE) to find staffers, especially close attendants. Since, you know, most of them are either dead, killed, or vanished by the point anyone wanted interviews without the preface of interrogation and summary execution. Some people today would be inclined to do similar, if current events say anything. But to hear her talk both fondly of the good moments, and somberly of that which she disliked or noted as serious, gives an interesting insight to not only her character as a person, but to Hitler and his staff. Although, I know a fair amount of the population that would enterprise themselves fit for the former. Because everyone wants to think they’ll do the right thing, or what they perceive to be the right thing. Feeling confident that they could do it, with the tact of a T-Spoon.
Amazing the she didn’t play her way, when interviewer tried to make her say she wouldn’t go to Berghof, lady actually said no because she was young and it was an good opportunity for her.
A fascinating interview. It’s not difficult to see that she wrestles with the past. On the one hand she was a young women who was thrown in to a position with great prestige, having likely never left her home town to then go and work for Hitler. It must have been thrilling. I have no doubt those early years were great memories for her. On the other hand she came out the other side and was confronted by the criminality and barbarity of the regime in full force, something she had been shielded from before in the inner circle. Trying to come to terms with both must have been a difficult position many of that generation faced.
What about the criminality and barbarity of countries that won and got to write history? Germany was not uniquely evil. It's the Allied propaganda that's making her feel bad when she shouldn't.
@@skillfuldabest Germany tried to systematically wipe out entire races of people based on a warped and flawed ideology. Evil is evil, unique or not. If you imagine that the Allies were ‘equally’ evil then there’s probably not much I can say that will convince you otherwise and it’s a pointless endeavour.
Richard T. Minio ... go ahead, accept the "authorized" history like a good little NPC. truth is truth... it doesn't matter how much the powers that be want to intimidate people to believe otherwise or paper over the truth with layer upon layer of deceptions. I guess you believe 9/11 happened just like they told it... and the Jews had nothing to do with it... haha.. idiot
P B : who declared war on Hitler before WWII ? Was Kristalnacht authentic or staged? Who is responsible for most anti-semitic hate crimes today (hint: the victim is the perpetrator - to garner sympathy)? Why did Hitler invade Poland? To save who from what by who? What did Hitler say in Mein Kampf? Who helped Jews with safe passage to settle in Israel (the REAL final solution)? Who are the real persecutors of Jews (hint: the Jewish Elite, as in any satanic cult)?
Alfonso perez not even as toilet paper in any decent human being. I hope her grand child realizes it, before it comes in the hands on neo-nazis mentality.
It's a piece of history and it's cool, you don't have to be a Neo-Nazi to think it's nice to own something as extremely rare as a signed certificate by Hitler. People like owning rare, historical items and that doesn't make them indecent human beings just because it used to belong to the "bad guys". Don't be such a close-minded fuck.
Makaveli250 dor the pursuit of history, I agree. Otherwise burn the thing down, because the monsters have burned it way more valuable historical deeds.
Thank you for providing unbiased news. This is very insightful and shows that not everyone on the wrong side actually knew at the time the atrocities that had taken place
Bul Mnstr no fact it’s not your delusional to-think keeping a card from a murderer is perfectly ok and that I not once heard her say she was sorry for the families.
@@bjoy1030 what did she know? the Germans knew abt the Jew bashing, but they were told that they were only being "relocated", not tortured and then brutally killed. Also, she is definitely sorry for those families. You don't have to explicitly say it to show it. Her tears for the boy who couldn't drink the milk shows it enough
@@bjoy1030 she doesn't have to be sorry for the families.. She didn't execute anybody, she took a job which she also probably had no choice in.. Remember she was "summoned" to the employment agency, I'm pretty sure she didn't have a choice and even if she did, who would turn that kind of opportunity down
9:09 when the reporter read out what was on the board and then started looking and zooming in at the old lady like "do you have to ad anything to that, you murderous fascist?" i felt really bad for the old lady. what the hell was the reporter expecting from her? didnt even ask a question. dumb move...
9:30 haha there is it... "...und vielen menschen das leben kosteten" then silence.... ..reporter starts looking at her..... ... camera zooming in on her... pure cringe. so unneccesary, and a bad move in terms of journalism
She's unforgettable, gone through harder times after the swift from nearly abandoned destination. What must had she faced in all? Admirations for her. True Duties.
Nothing admirable about any of it, she even implied she’d let her younger self do it all again because she felt “privileged”. That’s textbook definition of Selfishness and narcissism.
@@LukeAlexan Loyal to any royal , does not mean or create any disregard. More than half population or say generations are serving and not own any disrespect, regardless of professional / non-professional delinquencies. Like someone commenting, "Brutal Honesty".
My german mother was a young Red Cross nurse during WW2. She drove a truck to bomb sites to save lives and, like the lady in this video and most germans, she had no idea about atrocities commited by Hitler or the Party. The people were not told about these things and most did not encounter it or see it in every day life. Insead she saw her closest childhood friend and neighbour killed, together with the entire familiy, when her street was bombed. She narrowly missed death on several occassions and saw a fellow nurse gunned down and killed next to her in a field when they were being machine gunned at terrifyingly close range by low flying allied aircraft. She dug out countless small shrivelled bodies burnt by napalm dropped on civilians by UK and US aircraft. All she wanted to do was save lives and help people. She wanted to go to the front line to save soldiers lives there, but thankfully the war ended before this could happen. You could not find a more kind hearted or more gentle person. This is the reality. Yet when she moved to the UK after the war she was called a Nazi and attacked. She turns 98 this year (2022).
@Jamie it's not just the UK. Every country has its ignorant people. Americans were awful to immigrants long ago. And in Europe we still have some racists and bigots
None of the German citizens knew about the Holocaust. My fathers good friend Heinrich Geisler grew up just down the road from a death camp. They were told the odor in the wind was coming from the Reich slaughter house. Fucking sickening.
I hope she is doing well, I love to hear some more stories. Please keep visiting her. She is a piece of history. I hope she has many healthy years, God bless her.
They all knew. Adolf Hitler had repeatedly forecast the extermination of every Jew on German soil. They knew these details because they had read about them. They knew because the camps and the measures which led up to them had been prominently and proudly reported step by step in thousands of German media articles and posters. I'm not saying Germans are evil and I believe all humans have capability to be desensitised to atrocities but let's be real, they all knew exactly what was happening at the time. Those that claim otherwise are simply ashamed.
I don't think it was there to shame her... but I think she doesn't understand well that the privileges she had where at a cost. She still smiles when she thinks back to the time where she felt like prominence and joy... kinda think that's disgusting tbh. Just my opinion.
What a sweet, kind lady. Anyone in her position during that era would feel privileged to have that occupation. These days, not so much. I admire her honesty and so sweet of her to have given an interview. Many would be too ashamed. She is truly a figure of our darkest moments in history. According to the Salzburg obituary notices , she passed away March 24 2022, at the age of 97.
This woman did exactly what any of us would have done if she was in her place. All the admiration for this woman and for her special sincerity. And last but not least, for her lucidity at this age
No. You never heard of Oskar Schindler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sophie Scholl in the White Rose (a resistence group)? They were all Germans. Corrie Ten Boom wasn't German, she was Dutch. All of them resisted Hitler and his Nazi regime and their killing by the millions those they deemed "life unworthy of life". Do your due diligence and start by finding the short film titled "Sing a Little Louder" directed by Jeremy Wiles. It's here on UA-cam. It's based on a true story.
What a wonderful and honest woman!! The reporter shouldn’t have asked what she should have done different. It was not her fault that he did what he did… She took the job so she could have a better life and food on the table. When I hear these stories and how people complain nowadays about their life’s I have even more respect for people from her generation and how they turned out such a good human beings!!
@STONESGAM You're bizarre and I question your morality. The correct answer would have been I would scream at my younger self to turn around and never look back or to kill that monster. You have no morals or honor.
It was a great question cause the answer revealed the complexity of being part of history while it is unfolding. It’s never as black and white as people want it to be
I admire Elisabeth’s honesty and the fact that she held on to her reality. She was doing her job and being there was a form of upward social mobility for her. She acknowledges how terrible and absolutely horrible the things that he did were, but she can’t deny her experience. She’s authentic. You’d have to be in that very situation to understand her point of view. Very good interview.
She is honest, and that is admirable. She doesn't approve of what Hitler did. But she had a wonderful time working for him, and she is not going to pretend she didn't.
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She knew he was a Charles Mason... But at the time she was on the winning side. Think of the many opportunities she had to kill him.
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ABC DEF Screw her!!!! She should have killed him when she had an opportunity!!!! Poison or something???, Sneak up behind him with a cord around his neck. .There must of been a way. . she could of stopped the Holocaust!!! ...but no!! she enjoyed his company!!!
Danielchai S - you have some illusions. I don't deny that "everybody knew" that something "bad" was happening. But she believed what she was told. She had spent her childhood in fascist Austria and her youth in Nazi influence. I'm Austrian - with some relatives coming from exactly such villages, small towns that she did - and now being the same age as her. I'm Israeli, too, by the way. I don't feel very comfortable hearing her (it's a discourse I heard often), but she's honest. Back in the day not many (if anyone) from her background would have refused or have any complaints. Many, though, didn't change their minds later, or understand what she finally understood. Many still live in denial (as far as they're still alive anyway).
mauso m ...of course you are
To me when she said , when she started working there . " For the first time in my life I was not hungry " , is very moving . She is an amazing old lady with a clear memory !
Except she didn't. She said: "That was the first time in my life i ate this(type of meal)"
Patrick Schuberth wow
She sold her soul for a plate of food
In a country of starving people after sanctions from the world anyone would love her job!! Many Jewish people turned on there own people for food and safety!
@@AMcDub0708 nope, she didn't have any idea that she will become one of Hitler's servants/maid. Her fellow countrymen were also brainwashed by Hitler's ideologies. The opportunity that was given to her is also part of propaganda, if you watched the whole video she didn't tell that the Nazi authorities recruited her without telling the details or giving any contract about her job. Strategy to recruit workers by word of mouth. The difference is the Nazi authorities didn't use violence to her and to her fellow countrymen while the Jewish people who went to Auschwitz were forced laborers.
Lots of people in world history were brainwashed because of propaganda, using poverty for opportunity, and hidden agenda of crooked politicians. Even today... most especially if a certain leader has a strong solid ideology and dictatorship, and doesn't give any single amount of compassion about humanity, a leader can turn people into blind follower. Those blind followers were also victims of false hope and toxic positivity. I suggest you guys watch the movie OUR BRAND IS CRISIS.
"I would've killed him."
No you wouldn't. If you grew in that era with those people in these circumstances, you absolutely wouldn't.
You could try but you'd have to deal with a bad outcome. Hitler killed his own best general because he thought he may have been part of an assassination attempt. He'd just as easily do away with anyone else who even spoke about it.
Those who say theyd kill him are pretty likely to have been his supporters. Think about it, they just say what they think will make them look good.
@@frederikzinn5427 true
a small minority might
@@frederikzinn5427 no u just stupid
She said it was the first time in her life she wasn't hungry. Her experience was significant in so many ways. She was in the middle of history in the making with a point of view of no other, why would she turn her 20 year old self around. Great interview
As an Austrian, the translation about her not being hungry for the first time in her life is wrong.
She said "Zum erschtn moi wos i gessn hob was i nu gaunz genau, an Reis mit Eierschwammerl [den i] is erste moi in meim Lebn gessn ghobt hob" which, correctly translated, means that she ate rice with mushrooms for the first time in her life. She doesn't say anything about hunger. There are multiple mistranslations in this video, sadly.
I agree with the rest of your comment.
@@retardhunter69Can you please translate the mistranslations and put the timestamps for your corrections?
@@retardhunter69 Well that's great to know. Doesn't change my opinion, consider my comment corrected with "she ate rice with mushrooms for the first time. Her experience..."
same holds true for SS guards
@@retardhunter69Thank you for taking the time to provide the correction and your honesty. 🙏🏼
She was simply surviving. It was either live in a mansion with a secure job and home or continue to not know the feeling of being full from eating. I appreciate her honesty and can tell she’s sincere.
@H S you have not one clue as to how hard it was and in that point in time. Not one single clue.
@H S you are more than one very extremely stupid person. What else could she do? Why would she do something else?
True, all these people saying "Oh why didnt she just kill hitler" like she was 19.. like it still wouldn't have done shit, someone would probably have taken Hitler's place. I mean it's bad that she framed a note signed by hitler along with a jewish artifact. But she is one of the last survivors of WW2. not many people who were alive during that period are still alive. Its apart of history, Like she has 1 thing in the world that is very valuable and it's from that time period. If she was to "Kill hitler" not only would Heinrich himmler and the death squad shoot her on the spot, but she was also fucking 19. She was surviving. People acting like she is the one who sent millions of people to their death. People clearly didnt watch it. She cries about how bad and crazy Hitler was but she enjoyed staying there because she was safe and she had no idea that he was committing atrocities. It's really not her fault.
I don’t have a problem with her taking the job, she was young and it was exciting. I have a problem the way she’s looking back on the experience. No regrets, sounded like a true nazi when she was saying ‘I was proud’ ‘people looked up to me’ then just a casual but it was terrible what they did. She knew more than she’s letting on!
@H S How could you be so ignorant?
This is a woman who was a maid at Hitler's house. So what? I mean, sure it is interesting, she might even have stories of Hitler in a lighter moment. She killed nobody, she cleaned dishes, cleaned the house, brought Hitler his food... She is no criminal. She is not responsible for anyone's death. I guess you can say she didn't try to kill Hitler, but would YOU have had the courage to do it? I wouldn't have. I would have smiled at Hitler, Eva Braun and their guests. Always happy. People generally don't think of happy people as suspicious. This lady is just fine in my book.
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I would have the courage to kick him in the ball.
Don't forget who's making the documentary
She also had NO CLUE what was happening outside of there
@@vcat1832 Good luck with that. He killed his own best general.
If you get a chance to meet with a person from ww2 you really should prepare some intelligent questions...
Or let them just Talk and listen the story . Put your job aside and just take notes
@@MxmdAmn unless you have to suffer...... that's Man world.....not gayss🌈 for sure
@@hamasientnber3130 what does that have to do w my comment ???
@@MxmdAmn if you put your job aside that mean you afraid........so Talk shit even now in front of Trump or Kim no one will know where your grave is!!! Go back to your statement
@@hamasientnber3130 those guys you mentioned and this old woman are two different people. I was talking about respect and letting her tell her full story but instead we got few details .
Fobs like you are everywhere these days
I admire her honesty. Being young she was isolated and secluded from truth and provided with food and security she had never had previously. It was only when she returned home that she faced the reality outside of the world she had been sanctioned to live in. Blessings to her.
It is wild to see someone who worked for Hitler holding an I pad
everyones isolated from truth dude.. old and young..
She said that her bedroom was so pretty that she didnt want to make it wrinkled, so you can imagine as a young girl she never saw anything like that because she was poor. I admire her for telling her story.
The Posen/Poznan conference somewhat confirms that even very high ranking Nazi (outside of direct Holocaust architects) weren't aware of the horrors.
Himmler made a speech at this conference for the explicit reason of implicating other high ranking Nazis.
@@motorbreathjzWhere she was she didn’t see the horror until she went home.
I respect her honesty. If you put yourself in her shoes, it's kind of hard to blame her. She went from being a poor and hungry young woman to a person with status and a very comfortable life. She also genuinely believed that she was doing a service to her country. Most people today would play down their experiences to avoid the stigma, but I don't know that many people would actually make different choices in her circumstances.
So you would work with a psycopath that killed millions of inocent people over some money and status? Sorry but human life is more important than any material thing, included money.
That's why so many people got caught in it, I mean, the regime-the poverty. She should have known what that ideology was about.
Nowadays, we have another similar maniac and drug addict who spreads around hatred, namely W. Putin. Now, to put myself in her shoes, if his delegates came to me and said, "Hey Mr Sławomir, would you like to work for Mr Putin, say as his driver?". My answer is "No. Go to hell with your f...g job. I don't work for war criminals. " There are more important things in life than money and prestige. If I were to accept the offer, it would be only to poison the bastard 😂
Regards
@Adolf Hitler To call yourself A. Hitler is weird, very weird
@Adolf Hitler Sick minds, sick ideas
how would she know what was going on.
According to what I found on an Austrian obituary page, Elisabeth passed away in March 2022 at the age of 97. May she rest in peace and may we continue to thank her for sharing her incredibly insightful story to be preserved for future generations of historians.
I'm so sad to know that... She had a full life, I wish I could hear all the stories she had to tell.
Faithful to a mad evil monster 🤔🤔🤔
@@dave.dunphy940 She wasn't even out of her teens when she took that job.
You will judge her now for things she did then, when she never knew the horrors being committed or could even fully comprehend them at the time?
Understand psychology and the complexities of it before you blindly judge others.
I'm not sure it was THAT insightful. "He was so nice to his dog". "It is what it is" as they say, if she were a butler then I doubt we'd all congratulate her. At the same time, I'm in Canada, our GOVERNMENT had a standing order policy to not allow any jews in, with one govenrment official sayig "one jew is too many". Its recorded that at LEAST one ship was stopped at the port, denied entry, then returned to Germany and those on board perished.
Its not like a lot of people have a high moral horse they can sit on, the comments on an anti war rally has commenters saying 'we need a strong military, we need to go kick butt'. So its hardly the case that we all turned our swords into plowshares today. How many people worked for George Bush Jr, who started a war just as illegal as the invasion of Poland. Would we praise a maid at the white house for telling a story about how George one time spoke kindly to her?
@@mikearchibald744 I’m a historian, and any first-hand accounts of major historical periods from *any* angle are insightful and are sometimes the most intriguing. The fact that she was a) an employee who had access to one of the most influential and secure institutions in Europe at the time and b) was alive at the time of filming to tell the story, make her valuable to a historian. It’s not necessarily the fact that she was once in the same room as Hitler, but that she had access to his inner world that was seen as an enigma to so many (not defending Hitler here folks, history has to be written about the repulsive ones too). I know professors of WWII history that would have scrambled at the chance to have her speak to their classes. We have plenty of accounts from the diaries of Queen Victoria herself, but what of her footmen who stood in the room as she met with her Prime Ministers to discuss the nation’s most sensitive issues at the time? They would have been able to contribute stories (often with little bias) and documents that may change our understanding of how a public figure of the time was perceived. Stories from everyday figures like these often complete the picture when it comes to our understanding of a certain era. It’s the teaching and recording of history, no matter how minute it’s perceived to be, that ultimately allows us to help prevent the unsavory parts from being repeated.
We are the last generation that will be able to meet these people in person
True, but video's such as this will survive for centuries.
I graduated college so that I can type with incorrect grammar if i want bro, i really don't see what your goal is here, i doubt you have achieved anything in life that gives you the gall to be a Grammar Nazi in the youtube comment section.
Buffalo State man, it wasn't the best but got the job done, not too sure what you're trying to prove here, but my bad for the spelling mistake I suppose.
MCDoW Not you, KoivuTheHab it just happened to tag you, sorry dude.
I wish I got to meet my great grandmother from Poland. She died after few months I was born. She got to see me and hold me as a baby but I wish I can time travel to go see her.
"How an entire nation can succumb to a dangerous blindness" those words hit really really hard. Super relevant, even nowadays.
Trump supporters
Dangerous? You mean the part where Germany was taken from a depression to the best economy in the world in under 6 yrs? The fact they shut down Gender studies Universities? Burning of Pornography and outlawing it? Stopping the bakers from destroying the country further? People werent blind back then.
@@LARamsEmpire You people have been so propagandized you are iconic definition of "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
Not sure if your aware but the consensus around the world is that American's don't know any history. Seems like more effort is focused on gender and social studies or whatever pseudo subjects are invented this decade. Right now, you are the person going around telling everyone that the black people are coming to stamp you like the old lady was saying.
And there it is, the random stupid Trump comment. Must everything always have to refer to him? It's not funny. At this point the horse is dead. Please stop beating it. Let it go FFS.
@@Nigelsmom2136 TDS is one hell of a drug eh? It could be a cat video and some numpty will spout on something about thew man. Asylums need to be made Great again and Men in white coats given the go ahead to house them.
6:24 "It was the first time in my life I wasn´t hungry" - how do you tell a very poor young girl not to work at a mansion, where the most "admired" person , at the time , lived?
6:21*
You're right. You did not even have to be young.
However, it's not translated correctly. She says it was the first time she did eat that kind of meal.
Nevertheless, as she says before 2:30 : everyone had been poor.
That includes starvation. If you watch film material of that time, you almost only see people who are extremely lean. I know stories of a few relatives (I'm German) where in cultivated families children would have fought each other over a slice of bread, the parents had to distribute exact shares for everyone, every day, for years. Children going to school in the snow without winter clothes. Classrooms where in winter ink had to be put on the oven to melt it, so you could write with it, because the classroom was that cold.
As she says at 2:40: The people in the village drew hope from ONE meal of goulash that the military served. That says something about the conditions under which your mind just circles around staying alive.
There are so many things told out of context and oversimplified, especially in German schools. It's sad. Then, on the other hand: how many people care about getting informed? Audiatur et altera pars. And listen to those who are honest. Like this woman.
It's easy to incite further hate with stories of wartimes.
man of the year 1938 for a reason
Plasma Plasma John Doe - Did you just say that Hitler’s winning man of the year was justified and good? This woman was well treated, and STILL ate the leftovers off of the plates.
@@Erin-Thor I assume the leftovers from the table not from their plates.
Stop making the poor old women like she is evil
She only did what she need to survive
Dres Rosa I feel hella bad for her tho
Dres Rosa finally someone who understands
pretty much.
same could be said about the other soldiers who were forced to kill innocent people right? they only followed orders to survive.
@@Watchingitnow-b2r Yes. Conscripted soldiers who would of been killed by Nazi regime if they did not partake in the war and follow orders. Not just them but their families as well. Tell me something.
If someone came to you and pointed a gun at your head but not just yours but your brother, sister , wife and child. Would you bend the knee and fight to keep them alive or rebel and watch them all die?
This woman is/was a historic treasure. I thank her for her truthfulness and brutal honesty. I know it could not have been easy.
Just because she’s honest doesn’t make her a good person, I would rather die than work for a terrible person like hitler
She was an historic treasure, and it is sad that we lost her, and that she did not share her experiences sooner. It is a huge loss, especially now that so very few are remaining, when someone so close to a major event in world history dies, and all their direct knowledge and memories die with them.
Very huge loss a woman who helped Hitler to brutally kill rape and torture millions of Jews,
Yes she deserved a longer life for sure!
Hitler died in 1965 in venezuela
Lol both of you are clowns 🤡 ignorant American clowns
Big respect on Elizabeth on her honesty , like no one would admit that they had a great time working with Hitler, but she did. She grew up in starve and working with Hitler could make her feel full, it is like this was the only choice for her by that time , Hitler might do a lot of bad things but luckily he hired this historical treasure so that we can see this interview today. Rest in peace legend, we hope you had a better after life.
It's so ridiculous this interviewer attempts to shame her at the end. Coming from a poor village with nothing to working for the most powerful person in europe. Anyone would have taken that job! They just used her for the story and threw her to the curb at the end. Poor lady.
Because this Jew hates Europeans and especially Germans.
@@DavidJones-pc9jn wha-
Why?
Violence is never the silatuion no matter how angry you are at someone.
You would become just as terrible as the one's you think were terrible before. There is no excuse of hurting anyone,of any race or religion.
This women was young,maybe naive. She came from a poor family,and needed a job,maybe she didn't know any better. You can see that she is not proud of Hitler's actions and that she doesn't think that what he was doing was right,and neither do I.
I don't want to attack you,or make you feel bad.
I just simply wanna tell you that everyone deserves a second chance,and so does this woman.
@@DavidJones-pc9jn You're a jacka zz.
David Jones why?
I don't really see it. She essentially asked that in hindsight, it was a bad idea to work there, and she gave a very human response. I've seen people "thrown to the curb" in interviews and if this was such, it was certainly the most gentle version I've ever seen.
14:20 There's a big translation mistake that I want to point out here.
I'm German and I understand everything she says.
*She's speaking in **_present tense_** about how she felt at the time when she was actually there, at the Berghof!*
But the actual English subtitle is in _simple past_ - making it seem like she says that she's proud that she was there. *That's wrong* and I don't know if it's purposefully wrong (to make it look more dramatic) which saddens me.
Peace out.
Thank you brother from German mother
THat makes sense, and is how I understood it to be. Of course she was proud at the time, but why would she be proud to this day in her wise old years? You make perfect sense.
Lightnings I’m sure it was done on purpose. Look at who conducted the interview.
@@Blackpanthersrevenge This was aired on the Israeli news channel and I remember the original Hebrew subtitles very well as I saw it live. they were correct as Lightnings explained above, even the part where she called him a clown which is not translated in English here.
It was uploaded to UA-cam a few days later and probably was translated to English by a less capable translator.
You talk out of your ass.. The interviewers treated her with respect and nothing bad was said about her in the press at all. in fact it was seen as admirable that she was truthful.
Germany and Israel have very good relations currently and this is cherished. When this was aired on the news people showed respect to her unlike you. so your just an ass.
@
Lightnings , I hope my first paragraph cleared it up mate. thanks for noting this
Peace out
Top Dead Center big time!
"He wouldn't get up before 2pm, and he wouldn't go to bed before 4 in the morning"
I didn't know I had so much in common with Hitler
same
It's 4:30 AM, and im going to bed. I will also sleep in the position Hitler slept.
@@winecheese2185 bro youre basically hitler!
He was prepared for the jet lag should he land at JFK
Wkwk
Austrian here to report some minor inaccuracies in the translation of her dialect. At 6:17 for example, she's talking about rice with golden chanterelles ("Eierschwammerln"), not rice with eggs and mushrooms ("Eiern und Schwammerln"). Also, she doesn't say it was the first time in her life that she wasn't hungry, but that she never had that meal before.
I can confirm this as a native German.
Thank you for that
When she said the N word was that really the N word in her language?
@@lorir5728 Yes, it was. She was more or less quoting the propaganda though. Still, I'm pretty sure she'd have chosen this word herself as well. But you'll have to consider - and please don't get me wrong on this - since there were nearly no black people in Austria until about 50 years ago, there was basically no sensibility for this topic, so I don't think she meant it in a malicious way. Also, in my experience, the German "Neger" is generally a tiny bit less hateful than the English counterpart with an "i" and double "g".
@@lorir5728 Yes, it was. UA-cam seems to have deleted my initial, more detailled answer 🙄🙄 What glorious censorship, democracy manifest!!!1!!eleven!
Not many people have a christmas card signed by Adolf Hitler.
I wonder how much is that piece
@@mimimi7387 people would pay a lot of money for that but she has no intention in selling it so will be passed down to family
@@mimimi7387 possibly millions
I wouldn't want it. I would burn that fucking thing.
Actually you're the only one who doesn't.
I don't think this woman was involved in the decision making of any of the “final solution” or “what country should we invade next?” questions. I think she was more involved in the, “Which chocolate should I put on the pillow?” and “Should I open the window and let fresh air into the room ?” questions.
+apokalypse 2016 YESHUA loves you
Jesus loves us all, and surely weeps for the oppressed Palestinian people.
Germans didn't know about the concentration camps and didn't know about all the bad things the nazis did. They were brainwashed by hitler and I doubt this lady knew any better about everything when not even high ranked officers knew everything. So no, she's not a bad person and hitler did treat her well so I don't blame her for having good memories from when she was working for him. Now she understands how bad he was.
michaelterry1000 true
...But they knew about Jew-bashing.
Why does she have to regret her life, she was a young kid it wasn’t her fault she had a job offer. There is nothing to say, it is terrible what hitler did, it’s not this lady’s fault she was just a maid telling her part of the story.
@Pichkalu Pappita No, you don't.
Amanda Walker ehhh it wasn’t that terrible
@@leezap9358 They didn't hire anyone. Do you know what "hire" even means? They couldn't "hire Nazis", bc they were also Nazis.
yea, if she has to regret with having that job, we all need to be ashamed to work in unilever , palm oil companies and plastic factories
Amanda Walker She doesn’t have to apologise or regret anything. George W. Bush is a war criminal and you don’t see his maids regretting or apologising for simply living their lives.
Fascinating. Excellent piece. Good journalism. You gave us truth and got out of the way. Great work.
I don't blame her at all, clothes, food, pride, admiration. Far more people have done worse than wash dishes for anyone of those things. This prejudice towards her is ridiculous. She was given an opportunity of a lifetime.
yeah... it's hard to think that someone would look back on those years as fond given everything we now know. On one hand you really don't blame her. On the other, it's interesting that the memories of the prisoners she met after the liberation don't affect her sense of pride of the opportunity she took. It's almost like "well that didn't happen to me, so I'm not sure what I would say to myself".
She also lived history, I bet there is an uncut version of this. And lucky if she wasn't sexually abused.
At that time in the war such things were impossible to get. The only time when the rich and the poor were equal to suffer the war. So she might would have died in the war if she wouldn't get the job, after all, the job keeps her safe and disconnected from the war although she knew what's going on.
It was probably like holding the king of versailles' chamber pot.
Slade Wilson I agree. If she left the job if washing dishes, someone else would’ve taken it no problem.
6:45
"He wouldn't get up before 2 p.m and he wouldn't go to bed before 4 in the morning"
for once,I can kinda relate to Hitler
me too....the life of gamers and curiousers
fjkfdls fsdalds
"School nights" grow up kid
fjkfdls fsdalds you have a bedtime?
@@hdualsjei3alegw9wp45 Lazy loser that conquered whole europe and was loved by his people
Of course, when you have war on your mind I'm sure it never stops racing
That was an answer that wasn’t expected !
What a lovely honest lady who would not be backed into a corner.
@Marie Johansson Im honest too. Thats why I called her out....
Youll believe anything wont you? You dont even need EVIDENCE
Faggatron she didn’t know what she was doing at the time. She was a young lady living her life trying to make a good life and survive during ww2
@@aktan4ik: You are a fanatic, and thus nothing better than a fanatical Nazi or fanatical communist or a fanatical Muslim.
You would not have thought that you are the same, but that's the way it is !!!
Faggatron Calling a 92 year old lady out? Nice you're so tough bro. This lady is not racist, She worked for hitler because of the circumstances.
I love that she made peace with her past and is sharing her story. Sometimes we can't see big truths until later on, everyone is just doing their best until they know better. Bless her.
so sad they didn’t translate what she said properly, at one point she called hitler a clown lmao
are u german?
Mary Mukamb yep
@@jules9266 oh cool... i have b2 in german, but omg i can't tell what she's speaking :( only at certain times... what dialect is this?
Mary Mukamb pretty sure this is an austrian dialect, I come from bavaria so I understand it cause the bavarian dialect is similar to the austrian dialect. Dont worry bc you dont understand it, germans that dont understand bavarian dont understand the austrian dialect either.
@@jules9266 ohh thank you that's very sweet of u
The interviewer wanted to redirect the ladies opinion to another subject, which it seemed unfair to me, but the old lady answer with truly sincerity.
The interviewer was trying to make her guilty
@@brownasiankid1782 I know. Sad for the youth, sad for the aged.
@@brownasiankid1782
No need to try, she IS guilty. As all of Hitler's supporters were.
"We didn't know" gets very old, very fast...
Yes they did know, she described the destruction of the Jewish stores, she sw the beatings... and she HEARD the conversations.
I'll tell you right now, if I was offered a job at Mar-a-lago, I would not take it!!!
@@abelis644 Yea thats right, you were there right? You KNOW what people saw and KNEW what people knew. Stop talking about things you know NOTHING about.
@@jojomo7859
Don't be ridiculous, look at the US right now, do you NOT think that the cleaning, cooking, gardening etc staff in the White House and at Maralago don't hear and see what tRump is up to??? Are you draft?
You cannot be that dumb... lol
I applaud her honesty and courage to admit that she was swept up in the movement like most others. A lot of people in and around the Nazi Party were liars after the war. They swore that they never enjoyed it or they never knew what was really going on. This old lady is fully aware of the attacks she could receive for telling the truth. But she tells it anyway. Which is why I don't condemn her. In fact I respect her and am glad that she came forward to tell us this interesting story.
Peter Duffield those are the words of a wise man and i respect you for saying that.
I didn't get that impression at all. I feel like she wasn't doing it to be brutally honest, but more dropped herself in it without realising. I also felt that her remorse wasn't genuine and I wasn't getting enough from her in that respect. I didn't leave the video feeling too good about her, but is interesting to see many people like yourself who think the opposite.
@@shanie1396 why? Because she's old and didn't shed a tear or something? You wanted her to CRY and she didn't, so she's FAKING it? She might be sorta sad but not REALLY? is what you're getting at? Just because YOU cry doesn't mean EVERYONE ELSE has to. Ookkkkkayyyy
@@daviedood2503 Its the impression I got, nothing to get triggered by. Go vent your anger on those who actually deny the holocaust ever happened 🙄 I haven't said anything disrespectful.
@@daviedood2503 I'm sorry, I can't take someone serious who thinks the term triggered actually relates in any way to people getting shot, or presumes that someone who wears makeup is a "thot" as you so eloquently put it. Think what you will about my intentions, the reason I am here watching these videos is to inform myself about the atrocities that took place, with ZERO disrespect on my part. I simply made an observation and an opinion. Taking into account the concept the whole video is based on, my comment is the least thing you should be getting worked up about. But crack on, I have no interest in you or your presumptions. However it is always interesting to see people throw out insults when a difference in opinion is made.
I could tell the interviewer did not like what she was hearing. At the end, she tried to bully Elisabeth into saying what she, the interviewer, wanted to hear.
I didn't get that impression.
@@seekeroftruth1200 She tried to hide it.
u r 100% rightttttt
She is more reliable than my history book from school.
@@mr.blackhawk142 .............Not much going on between your ears, is there. You vile piece of garbage.
@Isreal Galivjan..................You're an imbecile.
She probably would have been tried for crimes she never committed. I don't blame her for staying silent.
History likes to look at the negatives instead positives.
@@compoturn1029 She was the fucking housekeeper, not a nazi general.
The fact that they asked her a question she couldn’t answer at the end and still proceeded to make her feel bad for it the woman was nearly crying! Absolutely horrible. Don’t use the poor women just to get a video out of her
Just out of curiosity, is the one who did the video Jewish or have Jewish relations? Don’t hate me here, but making her cry like that, I’m thinking it was a sick twisted revenge of sorts. Disturbing.
Nathalie Le Maire I don’t really know myself unfortunately
Oh fuck off dipshit. She's a Nazi sympathizer and she doesn't hide that fact well. Go fuck yourself. Prioritize who you defend.
@@the406seadonkey6 I dont think she is a nazi sympathizer
Scott Magill i love how people are so uneducated like you that they think any german during the war that didnt want to be thrown in jail, did what the nazis said, is now automatically a nazi sympathizer.
The old woman answered the last question in respect of honesty. Well done her. It s true
Nice engrish guys
@ijcn0jir3nvjn3fjcifn If you can't figure out the meaning behind her words, then you have no clue how to figure out complex answers and probably shouldn't be watching this video.
Look, I am Jewish and I probably would have felt exactly like she did. She was young, excited, finally around luxury, beauty and bounty. She was around the most powerful person in the country. It must have been glorious and intoxicating. She was a chosen one.
Hitler was all about beauty and obsession with beauty. I imagine his house, the food the surroundings were layered with it. It must have been a delight to live there during such an exciting time.
Yes, horrible things came from it, but one can be flexible enough to understand her point of view.
Genocide is terrible, a shame it still happens today.
How to describe almost every war in history; intoxicating. You either pick sides, or you fall in the middle, and God knows what happens then.
"It was the first time in my life I wasn't hungry." -- that sentence is difficult to hear also
Her answers were perfect. The interviewer was not asking the best questions.
That's not what she actually said, the undertitles are wrongly translated.
@Cheryl Lynne hard to understand as she is speaking some kind of dialect, but I think she said it was her first time eating this dish.
The subtitles are not correct. She doesn't say "It was the first time in my life I wasn't hungry."
She said: "What I ate there ( at the Berghof) for the first time, I still remember exactly : rice with Eierschmarren. I ate this for the first time in my life."
Word explanation: Eierschmarren = a beaten egg, which is mixed with milk and flour, baked in the pan.
Not to me. Look, Austria was in dire straits when Hitler kicked in!
It was a privilege to hear this lady's first hand experience. You never know what knowledge & wisdom someone has until you listen.
Wisdom like, if you ever get a chance to be a maid for Hitler, do it, it's great!
That was probably an unfair question to ask her, "Would you turn away?" She was a young poor girl, not even generals and soldiers told Hitler "no." Also, it's unethical to imply she was a contributor to the war in anyway, even an unwitting one. Thank you for telling your story and for "Delly Fina" for correcting the translations. Propaganda everywhere.
I guess it the same for the girls who were with Epstein too....why would they turn away from all the wealth he showed...right?
It was a question asked by a reporter who was obviously very proud that she'd landed this interview. What would this reporter say to her 20-year-old self? Oh wait. She's only 20 now. That explains a lot.
She didn’t even know what it was like to feel content from eating. Anyone in her position would’ve taken the job.
Ask her about the wooden doors
Well, the interviewer wasn't saying that she *should* have turned away, just asking if she *would*.
I'm an American, born and raised. My grandmother was born in Munich Germany. I remember coming home from school one day, and telling her how we learned about Hitler, and how horrible of a person he was. She looked at me with a look of anger I had never seen before. I don't remember the conversation word for word, but she told me that before Hitler came to power, the Economy was HORRIBLE. It was after WW1, and just before WW2. She said they had to wait in line 3 hours or longer just to get a loaf of bread! Sometimes, they would get nothing. When Hitler came into power, the economy flourished, and people and their families could eat a good meal. Something most Americans take for granted. I'm not saying Hitler was a good man, but I try to envision living in a world where you can barely feed your family, and then all of a sudden, a new man comes into power, and your family can live a better life and eat good. Now that I'm older, I can understand my grandmother's point of view. Perception is everything, and propaganda is King.
R.I.P. Oma. I miss you
Yes, for a few years, if you weren't Jewish, mentally handicapped, Romani, or homosexual, life was better and food was plentiful in Germany. Then the massacres and holocaust started, along with the most destructive war ever: many tens of millions of people died, including around 8 million Germans - almost an entire generation of young German men.
It's quite hard for me to understand your grandmother's perspective as she should have been aware of _all_ of the above by the time she scolded you. I'm sorry to say it, but it looks like she was a Nazi sympathizer.
this is a myth lmao, only for the affluent and upper middle class did things get better and it was from fed from the unsustainable profits of a war economy. For the vast majority of germans, the working class, things got worse. Inflation rose, wages were cut, all for the fatherland. They were told to like it and work. Not to mention the minor economic boost to those in the upper class could have been achieved through smart economic policy and they could have made even more than they did. Instead of a war that murdered millions of people.
Thats what some people do not understand when they make silly comments about the times before WW2 started. For Germans it was a great time of prosperity and like You said, they could feed their families and finally make a good living. Unemployment dropped dramatically and the economy was booming. You can't hate on the people who lived in those times and went with the flow of things, since everything at that time was really good for the German people.
I think it all comes down to integrity and morals. How far will you go to survive? Let's use a drug dealer or stripper for example. Do you take pride in the choice you made and those that disgrace those that argue its not the most moral living or do you admit it's not the best choice but it was the fast option available at the time to survive.
Pctcychi
She is an honest old lady. Like her.
@@milesdyson5211 you sound like Hitler lmao
@Raghnall MacPhadraig 🤫 just don't.
Me too. Her candidness is very admirable.
@@stud105 Why?
@@milesdyson5211 Killing her is frivolous. Just let her live the rest of her life, ya zealot.
what a wonderful old woman.. very wise... and honest.. i wish i could met her..
moirhann meet*
and than stab her!!
Yeah she would know being a maid.
She reminds me of my Austrian grandmother and grand aunt who lived in Austria near Salzburg not far from the Berghof area. My grandmother, father, uncle and aunt stayed in the Czech rep during the war when they were children. Grandfather passed away while in the Austrian army stationed in Italy.
Derpo Sawr it's cuh those people know the truth while you listen to the lies it's okay doe everybody's ignorant to something
She still preserves the card? Props to her, that is a piece of history with you. Its something people would pay a lot of money for.
Anybody paying a lot of money for something from hitler would be crazy!
Mr Cle And why is that?
@@cleonaxiaq2912 i would. although i hate the man, i am fascinated with history and i see that card as a very rare and vital object.
@@cleonaxiaq2912 It's a historical artifact, if you were to buy it you're not buying it to role play the 1930's you fucking imbecile.
1manuscriptman totally well known, you know how people are trading their hitler cards from the 1930s.
Fascinating listening to someone who was actually there & survived to tell us her story, a living memory
She was honest. Being so young at that age, it was natural that she must have felt proud working for the leader of her country. And also it is unlikely that she was aware of the atrocities committed by him and the gravity of those acts. She just did her job. She should not be made to feel guilty about it.
Bekaar Chokro 😂😂😂 There's always a thrill for some reason it just never gets old
She thrived for a status instead of being with the ppl
@@truth9042 where do you come from ? batshit cave ?
@@memethingz6004 And?
@@memethingz6004 She survived, where so many didn't. There was terrible hunger in all of Germany, and she was probably able to send some money back to her family. Being at the Berghoff, I very much doubt she got out very much and didn't have a car, so she truly didn't know what was going on in the camps. Or, she heard something here or there while working, but maybe not enough to know what it all meant. I'm usually Very sceptical about Germans from this period, but she seems different.
So glad this sweet woman had a chance to be interviewed...fascinating to hear her thoughts and experiences and above all, her honesty. Thank you for the upload.
Yes Fascistnating
Lol funny how the never do the same docu inter of the Genocidal murderers in occupied Palestine....
Oh my bad .. never again means never us again.. but let's kill all others.
Recruter: "So tell me about about your past job experiences?"
Her: "I worked for Hitler"
Recrtuter: "..."
best comment in the section
Lol
She had 2 do it to survive tho wouldn’t you? (The joke is funny)
Lolz
She was lucky.
It becomes impossible not to have a profound respect for this woman's honesty and transparency. She is actually genuine, melding the good and the bad. Her initiation into this realm was wholly innocent. She was sequestered from all 'badness'. And, to this 'dilemma' one could honestly ask why did Hitler choose a Jewish bodyguard (Emil Maurice, who was a member of the SS until 1945) and why were there so many Jews in Hitler's army (thousands of full Jews and more than 100 thousand part-Jews)? We are not supposed to probe so deeply but all this does is further exonerate Elizabeth Kalhammer's image. For political reasons, my post might be deleted, but the truth will never be denied. - David Lyga
She is an honest and admirable woman. She didn’t know the horrors that were happening and did what she needed to do to survive.
@GreekForTruth1 In the words of my grandfather: "It is weird how fast people get used to such things. Family members dying, training everyday, jews being brought away. It helps you survive in bad times but it also keeps you ignorant. People now can't imagine getting used to such horrors, but we all did.
Everyone knew what was happening to the jews to some extend, the hate was there. The people just either ignored or supported it. Because they got used to it. Because they didn't care anymore. "
He was 16 when the war ended and he visited a nazi boarding school in the war. He tried to flee multiple times.
He was descriminated because he visited a nazi school eventhhough it wasn't his fault.
This here is the same. If you are a servant of a person like Hitler and you are young, you don't know what is right and what is wrong. Poisoning him would result in your death and you might profit from serving him. No one is telling you you should poison him. It's easy to pretend it was that easy from your laptop. If you were there, you wouldn't have done it either.
@@mokkaherrman1104 People now would get used to things like that even faster because our generation in a generation of total pussies
You really believe that in those 2 years and all the guests they had over that time that she never heard anything about what was going on especially at times when the guests were drunk?I sense she knew a lot more than what she said from her body language and eyes.
@@Trajan2401 She was an irrelevant coworker. And killing anyone, is in almost every situation a bad choice. She would have risked her own life, and she was too young and insecure to know that killing hitler would have been the right choice.
@GreekForTruth1 Yes I think so. Not everyone knew the truth!🤦♀️
This woman have seen and actually lived an era in history that many of us if not most of us have never seen but have only read about in books.
My thoughts exactly
@Green Machine lol that's a shit documentary
The problem is that we will see the same thing in our lifetime :-( There's so many terror groups now it's hard to tell which one will start it. If only our voices weren't being silenced by the left.
@@arahantiusdetache5103 Extremists on both right and left are among the great dangers today
I agree that both sides have extremist but only the right has a monopoly on multimedia since tech companies are mainly staffed by left leaning people.
@@DrJones20
Good translation, but a few things were quite wrong. She actually never really said that they had to be quiet, or that it had to be silent around the house. For example during the dinner, tranlation was along the lines of: "We had to stay silent in the kitchen", when she actually said something like "we were having fun in the kitchen".
Anoter one was when she talked about him in the end and said he was crazy, and they translated: "How could he be allowed to do such a thing?" she actually said: " How could a country follow such a ´Thing´ ".
Interesting. The Jewish language is quite different to German, but as English is a Germanic language, mutual translations are better.
Of course it's not properly translated. She's being interviewed by Zionists.
Interesting that she actually said, "how could the country allow..." and not " how could he be allowed..". Because she knows in the back of her mind she was an enabler of him and is after 80 years still in denial. If the whole country is to blame that abdicates some of her responsibility.
Interesting, the truth once again lost in translation.
S. Adam Bernstein - How could she have consciously been an enabler st the time she was working there?
She didn't know much about politics anyway, so that's just armchair moral grand standing from your side.
And I would bet that 99.5% of the job searching females would have seen it as an honour to be chosen by the Führer as a chamber maid (your job description 'enabler') at the time.
It's easy enough to judge from behind the screen and a 70 year gap in between what we would have done or not done if we 'knew'.
I could be such a smart guy and claim now 'how could anyone let Stalin and the Bolsheviks kill over 5 million Ukrainians during the Holodomor in 1931/32?
All these terrible enablers.... '
It's quite easy to judge history on grounds of our current set of values and be outraged about just everything really.
'How could this and how could that'
Well if you are really curious I am afraid the only way to find out might be to use a time machine and go back in time and see for yourself .... rather than just calling a chamber maid an enabler because you were lucky enough to not live at that time and possibly be called an enabler now yourself for providing trivial services like providing flowers or dry cleaning Hitler's cloth'.
This is amazing! Love to see history documented. To hear the thoughts and memories of a person who was actually there and saw it all happen, that's priceless!🙏
This lady should not feel shame or guilt for her good teenage memories no one should either. That reporter made her feel guilty, bullying a 92 year old woman ✌
She should feel no shame because she did nothing wrong. Never forget General Patton realized "We defeated the wrong enemy!"
@@_Patton_Was_Right On the button friend. One of the few that knows. You have my respect.
Yes, I saw the pain on her face, it was grief.
That reporter is fine. She look tasty.
how fucking stupid can you be
It's hard to not get emotional when you see the look on this poor lady's face when the interviewer was reading the billboard. You could see the pain and sadness in her expression.
It’s the only time she was likable.
I don't blame her for longing for those days! Since she had such good memories working for Hitler and only discovered the atrocities afterwards, it would be so hard to connect the two experiences to the same man. It wouldn't feel real.
Like, can you imagine having the best life for two years with an excellent employer, then learning that they had murdered millions?
exactly. We really have to empathize with this woman's experience and put aside our bias in order to understand why she wouldn't feel bad about working for Hitler.
Heather Larson Whites are being massacred and thrown out of Africa just for being white ...makes you second guess if the Nazis are really so different than other races
+Heather Larson
I _empathize_ with Hitler. He was a broken man who had been shattered long before he came to power, who needed absolute control over all that he could get just to feel comfortable and have any measure of safety, he was steadily devolving into madness and drug abuse as the war turned against him. In many ways he was a sad man destroyed by his father's abusive and constant strikes as well as his mother's over caring creating a very very damaged psyche. I understand why he came to where he was and what made him who he was. I am no apologist, I would never support him except in jest and mockery, but it is important to research and learn history so as it does not happen again, and the way that such a man came to be and grew in power.
+Samuel Dement
Not the allies, Soviet Union. The Soviet Union did things comparable to either, though FDR was a terrible president and did do one thing comparable, while comfortable and absolutely nothing like the German work camps the Japanese internment camps were still utterly wrong and disgusting abuse of power.
Gina Lawrence
I would be so baffled, I wouldn't even know what to do lol
Antonia Yamin and Elizabeth Kalhammer did this interview (it's more than just an interview) extremely well. Both. Two human beings.
"I would have killed him".
Yes, well, nice luck trying such a move. His SS would have destroyed you at the first glance.
This isn't like movies or videogames. Such a move would be stupid in her condition (she doesn't has military training), she didn't had access to weapons really, and in general she didn't had a plot-armor protecting her, nor she was something like a "commando".
She only could work, obey, and let the course of time flow.
Even a Nazi general tried to kill Hitler and failed
And don't forget the near death experiences Hitler faced
@@pranavnair581 And with a bomb! People tend to think that kill a human being is like spread butter over bread🙄
@Joseph James Freewill. That's the "simplest" way.
@@pranavnair581 Rommel never tried to kill hitler
wow she literally IS History. Amazing.. and good for her being honest.
Honest but not repentant. A true Nazi monster!!
@@ryang790 Exactly we are on the same page. She was a Nazi dressed as a normal person. Thank you for agreeing with me this means a lot.
She is either part of History or was merely a bystander, she either actively took part in the decision making that was turning the world into a grave or she simply knew Hitler.
Is she to be respected and revered because she worked for a man whose aim was to turn the world into a wasteland.
Or was she just another person who vaguely knew him.
In which way do you respect her?
@@compoturn1029 seriously? I'm unsure if you are kidding or not, I think I may need to investigate her name
@@alberttatlock5237 If you look her up you will find she she was instrumental in the final solution plan this vile person used the cover as a maid to implement her plan. What better cover than to pose as a maid,nobody will try to assassinate you.! She was more dangerous than Hitler!
This woman has nothing to be ashamed of or regret I admire her for her honesty
😂😂😂
@@georgejones4435 yes she served them, nothing to be ashamed about doing the noble job of domestic service. She couldn't choose to serve non-nazis in 1938 Austria could she? What do you suggest she should do for a living? Or maybe she should have starved to death waiting for the denazification of Austria to pick a job?
@@georgejones4435 She didnt know he was putting people in camps, etc. You should be more open- minded. Her honesty is good. I'm personally glad she got to have a better life for a few years.
@@georgejones4435 but also to add onto what I said, those things that hitler did..were his OWN decisions. No one else is to blame but him. She has nothing to be ashamed of. Be respectful of other experiences.
@@georgejones4435 would you say the same to those who served british empire
I'm glad she embraces her experiences there. It's part of what makes you who you are. She had no idea of what the Nazis were up to in those camps. Few did. My grandmother was not even from Germany but when my family fled to Germany during the war, like all children she had to join the Hitler youth. Did not make her a bad person or a nazi - it is just the way it was. I grew up with a lot of German culture as a result of my family's time in Germany during the war. In a way, Hitler's actions made my birth possible - no war, no fleeing the country, my grandparents never meet, and I am never born - so even now, I think of it as something indelibly linked to my existence.
yea that’s crazy
She did talk about what the Nazis did to the Jewish shops.
I believe she is sincere. I enjoyed her story. For the first time she was living in a nice home and not hungry. If you've ever wondered where your next meal was coming from then you can easily understand her motivation and her pride. She mentioned that with her papers she could go anywhere she wanted. That was quite a luxury during those times.
@ellenfrancis67 quite the extreme for the whoring definition,but no she isn't.
@ellenfrancis67 Maybe. But they were tricked. You weren't in their shoes so you can't say for sure.
@ellenfrancis67 I mean when the troops came and fed them, in the beginning. I hadn't watched it through, though, when I wrote that; it was a bit shocking, the end. But at least she was honest, which isn't easy, considering the prompting from the interviewer. It's memories of her younger days and she says she didn't know what was going on, at least not the extent of it. Hard to know when you're in the midst of der Führer's 2nd home. She certainly felt for the starving freed prisoners - but she doesn't seem to care a whole lot. It's weird to see her smiling. She did express sorrow and disbelief. Ach, people on UA-cam just like to argue and fight.
@ellenfrancis67 I certainly do regret my wrong decisions! Not sure I feel shame. Then again, I never killed anybody. But neither did she.. Shame seems like blame or guilt: a generally pointless act (unless, again, criminals). She had a job. Okay, it wasn't just any job.. But she was only a maid: not a secretary or confidant.
They got perks. He was like a king! She ate his left-overs: woo-hoo.
The only thing is when she said she was thinking, "Poor man," when the war was ending: that he was so "broken". Well, that's not the only thing..
Anyhow, who knows. Was every German a Nazi, then? Maybe. Honestly, I'm not a history expert. I wasn't even a great student, sadly, tho I love to read now, tho I lack time. - Just fell asleep on tablet and erased rest of this: heck w/ it, have other responsibilities. Peace.(It thanked you for your temperate response, plus said - well I forgot. Oh: her reaction during footage of Kristallnacht rang hollow to me, and I gave the finger to the computer screen. So who knows. Not sure I care [about debating it].)
@ellenfrancis67 Jesus calm down.
When a young interviewer, not even alive at the time, asks the completely unrealistic, inapplicable question, "would you do it differently if you could go back, knowing what you know now," it reveals a total lack of appreciation of the reality of the situation back then, when people were literally just trying to find food so as not to starve. Also, don't forget that even just a mere three years (3!) prior to any military action, Roosevelt, Chamberlain, and the IOC were so charmed with the rebound of Germany and its impressive leader, that they supported his request for the 1936 Olympics and he was awarded it! So, how on earth could anyone ask this lady if she would go back and give up the security of food and shelter, provided by the same man who was given a very public stamp of approval by the leaders of the Western world, and voluntarily return herself to a state of continuous insecurity, hunger and worry of day to day survival? In the 60s we used to reply to such intellectual mumbo jumbo questions: "Hey man, I'm livin in the here and the now! Not in some fantasy world." She was only doing what anyone would have done to survive, and was grateful for the blessing that came her way. To ask if she would go back and not accept the position based on knowledge revealed later, just so that she would never have to admit that she worked for Hitler, is a nonsense question. I wonder if this interviewer would ask the same question of the house servant of Stalin, ie. if she would go back and decline her job offer due to what a monster he turned out to be? What about Hitler's gardener? Should he go back and refuse the work that put food on his children's table? SILLY questions that do not apply.
I'm still waiting for a movie abt the Bolshevic's reign of terror in Eastern Europe from Hollywood. But most of their victims were Christians so we will never see one.
VitaminD47 EXACTLY !!!
Whats with the essay.
It's hard for us in hindsight to contemplate the full context of the 30s. It takes a lot of studying and background information to really grasp how different the geopolitical and economical situations were in those days. It's a serious reading journey to undertake.
Also, don't forget that even just a mere three years (3!) prior to any military action, Roosevelt, Chamberlain, and the IOC were so charmed with the rebound of Germany and its impressive leader, that they supported his request for the 1936 Olympics and he was awarded it!
what an absolutely disgusting remark of yours! and sadly probably even 100% true.
"It was the first time in my life I wasn't hungry"
ellenfrancis67 shut the fuck up you idiot! where you there at the time? the people had nothing to eat, most of them saw two wars and had to fight their whole life long. i am impressed by her and all the others who survived such a brutale time! there are assholes everywhere and in every sociaty so shut up and don’t judge, because you know nothing
@ellenfrancis67 anddddd what was she supposed to do? stroll up to the camp and release everyone?
that’s actually not what she said, I’m from Salzburg. She says it’s the first time she ate that particiular dish lol the english translation is wrong
ellenfrancis67 you wouldn’t have done anything if you were her at the time too. They were all most likely part of the hitler youth corrupted and filled with propaganda. Most likely didn’t have a mind of their own.
*looks at full fridge*
that's so fucked up.
My heart breaks for her, being one of the few remaining who were there, finding only after what they had indirectly had a part in.
Your heart doesn't have to break for her, she's living wat more comfortably that 95% of the world population, she'll be just fine thank you
don't think she had a part in the war now do you
@@SDewes she’s had over 60 years to reflect on the events, I think she can be normal now
@@geraldolor4480 She did nothing abnormal LMAO, just a bit of shock induced by the difference in expectation VS reality
What I found fascinating was when she said she saw Hitler standing outside in the rain, in a blue rain coat, just standing there..."Poor man". Man...she saw a moment of Hitlers life that no one else would have witnessed. I am glad it was said in this interview. Things like that...those little up close and personal experiences...make me really ponder and think.
Let's be honest, he was losing a war and was thinking about how he fucked it up by invading Russia too close to winter and will probably shoot himself in the head in his bunker🤷
@@Othillde You are right that one is quite facinating and bizarre.
I guess it's the things that come from becoming a figure of historical significance, which sounds affuly praising talking about the man commonly accepted to be the epitome of evil.
Hitler was an evil prick! Is that clear enough for you to ponder?
Really and to think she waited 70 years to tell it.
@@nicholas9667 Not really surprising that she waited so long. Even in modern society, Germany is finding the most odd random people to charge with crimes as if to pat themselves on the back. The most recent I know about being a random unknown bookkeeper that was 93 years old and charging them with 1,000,000 counts of accessory to murder, publicly scolding them and sentencing them to prison. A man that lived the last 70+ years raising a family, taking care of grandchildren, working his ass off for decades until retirement, never once breaking the law whatsoever and living what most would consider to be a perfect life. These are people that genuinely had no other choice. It was life or death and now punishing them at the end of their life because they were "morally responsible" because they did what they had to do to survive. What good does that do other than to virtue signal?
bad interview, they wanted her to feel guilty, at the time, she was young, and nieve, she didnt know the atrocities that were taking place, all she knew was there was a job for her, that at that time was coveted by many, she felt special, and was well taken care of at bad time. she did nothing wrong. and of course knowing what she knows now, she would have told her young self to avoid it.
Bullshit. She was a grown woman. Being “young” doesn’t excuse shit. She was evil like him, she may have changed NOW. But I don’t buy her “testimony”. We all are capable of the same evil as them if we are put into the same predicament, those without Jesus anyway..
1999 Damn right I wouldn’t kill him. I’m not saying she should have. Grant it I don’t get peoples mindset when they offer that theory. I’m saying that she was a grown woman, she differentiated between right and wrong. I don’t think using the “she was young” excuse really justifies anything. She was around maybe what? In her early to mid 20’s. I’m the same age. I would be fully aware of what was going on, we humans are not as good as we like to think we are. We’re all capable of evil.
@@User-hy6ur I am sure that she was not exactly aware of all the awful things Hitler was doing, especially when she got hired. It 's not like she could have just quit. Since she was close, she could've known things that he didn't want other people to know and if she expressed that she did not want to work there anymore she probably would have been killed. She was told what Hitler wanted her to hear, just like all of the other people he manipulated. She did not know the extent of damage that he caused until after she escaped. If you are fed biased information and propaganda and nothing else, you will believe anything. So no, it is not her fault. This was during a war. So to her, she was on the good side and the other side was bad. So the "differentiation between good and bad" that you spoke of would be distorted. And calling her "evil" is a major stretch. She washed dishes and cleaned for him. That's it. It's not like she was a Nazi soldier.
@@User-hy6ur she only worked there as a maid. If she didnt worked there, someone else would have done it. It's not like she was a war criminal or soldier, she was just doing her work
User3477 Do you not understand anything of her situation? Have you heard nothing of the interview? She didn't even know what was happening.
What's irritating about this interview is the reporter's flagrant bias. Sure, it's impossible to not have an opinion on this subject, but a good reporter knows the importance of keeping an interview as unbiased as possible, letting the subject tell their story and the consumers to draw their own conclusions.
Anya What's wrong with your face?
Her face is perfectly fine and she's beautiful, what's wrong with you?
Anya o
Okay, but how could there not be a little bit of bias. I mean for fucks sake who could not be biased?
What examples can you give from the video of her being biased? I have seen this several times and never noticed bias.
Her honesty is crushing.
I love how she really does want to answer the questions honestly.. She really does say how it was exciting at the time. And when the interviewer asks, what would you say to yourself before you took the job... It isn't really a fair question.. Are you asking.. can you travel in time and tell the younger "you" that the terrible stuff would happen. Or are you asking... knowing what you knew at the time, would you do anything differently.... I think she honestly answers that, "At the time, we didn't know any better."
Exactly she is pushing the old lady where she wants her, because you can see the unbelieve in the eyes of the interviewer. And the old lady is honest about that time, respectfull!! Guess the old lady could better tell her story to a more objective interviewer, maby the BBC or ZDF, but maby the BBC is better they make great documentaries
@@Ron0181 That old woman has a good mind and she wasn't easily manipulated. Quit your ignorant complaining.
@@chellyr4972 i complain when i want.......if you can read i stand up for the old lady, respectfull how honest she is!! The interviewer sits there whit an attitude and disbelieve about her past! Nobody can tell what you have done in those days, i am not the only one that "complain" about the attitude of the intervieuwer and music, therefore i said maby the BBC can talk whit the old lady they know how to make an objective intervieuw!
dabigcat if we were all asked if we could go back to when we were 17 years old we would all make changes. I would not have married the same wife or taken the same job or made the same financial decisions. It all worked out fine in the long run but there would have been a lot of different choices made.
@@chellyr4972 you don't know. there were Jewish women that actually served h and his officers. you have no clue what you are talking about.
Holy shit she's hard to understand. I'm German but that old-timey Austrian dialect left me grateful for those subtitles at times
Ist kein alter österreichischer Dialekt, so spricht man immer noch hier bei uns. ;) Bin Österreicher und habe sie gut verstanden, kann mir aber gut vorstellen, dass jemand, der nur Hochdeutsch spricht, es nicht so gut versteht.
It's not like I've never seen an Austrian in the flesh before ;)
Seriously though, I don't normally have any trouble understanding you guys, even when you're not being extra nice because one of us Northerners is around. I can still only make out two out of every three words she's saying. Maybe it's just because she's really old already :B
I'm learning german and i found her accent lovely, sadly i dndt understand half the vocabulary ;D
You say we Austrians aren't nice?!?!?!
Ok, you're probably right. :D
Austrians? Nice? You gave us Hitler AND time traveling killer robots from the future ;)
She was just a young, unexperienced girl who got a fantastic job. How in hell could she know what should happen in the future? She has nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to be blamed for!
This is a very bad and biased interview. I would have heard her describing the life on Berghof instead of hearing her beeing forced to defending herself .
Correct its all about them,
I don't think the journalist was very hard on her. She acts very saddened by the aftermath. The questions were appropriate.
@@gdanieltube of course she knew Jews (AND OTHERS) were being beaten. Most of the Communists were Jews. So yes they would get the brunt. And then when International Jewish boycott came (there is no record of any Jews being harmed for being Jewish until the Jews came for Hitler's money... History is full of atrocities when money is messed with... Look what Japan did when America wrongly embargoed their oil access) they basically made their people sitting ducks as they knew they had no way to save them from what they had just started.
@@ginabraun8843 When the Jews came for Hitler's money? I think if you were to check your facts, you'll find it was quite the opposite. Please don't advertise stupidity like this.
@Motmaitre If you had served a monster like Hitler, you would have no remorse about it?
What a beautiful and respectful interview. Thank you.
Elizabeth did nothing wrong.
The German word "Neger" is commonly used even today in Germany. Only the younger Generation stopped using it because of "PC" Reasons. This word isnt consodered racist by normal people....its öike saying calling someone "white" is racist.
Werner Heisenberg no... calling someone black is the same as calling someone white.
Racial slurs are not normal and not okay. Don’t try to make it sound like they are.
@Stig Weard Good to know there are some sane people left in this mad world...Greetings from Germany
She fucked hitler
Elizabeth's employer did nothing wrong.
How the interviewer tried to subtlety force a "I regret working for Hitler" is uncanny
Fr she was just a maid
Yeah that was just pure bullshit.
It's easy to stand up to tyranny when that guy has been dead for decades and you don't have to go hungry like this poor woman did back then.
The woman wasn't falling for it. She was completely honest and I understand what her point of view must have been as a young girl.
@@kristinpfanku3927 young or old you can't hide ..when she went home and understood who she was working for she hide it from from her village..but still in the interview she holds on to the Christmas card from Hitler..that is awful
@@felixandersen3815 my father grew up hungry and he did not cave to Hitler and communist all around the world..Evil is Evil and we have to be ready to say no to what is wrong ..no matter what.
My father taught me that it's better to be hungry than to hate yourself the rest of your life or worse going to hell
Now I want to watch the uncut version of this interview.
just pass a few shekels over!
truth warrior most retarded documentary to ever exist
truth warrior i fucking respect you i rarely see anyone not fucking brainwashed by the media, jumping on the hate bandwagon
Thankyou for posting this. Very good piece of history for anyone to be able to view easily
I love her honesty - A virtue that’s all too rare anymore.
THERE IS STILL VIRTUE.
NO
Yes, honesty is something the media has long forgotten.
So very true
Yeah its just a shame that she kept her disgusting past a secret for 70 fucking years!!
Yeah she's so virtuous!!..............IDIOT!!
This woman was a relative innocent at the time and in no way should she be held to account.
Robert Rowland yeah obviously... she was just washing dishes
She was not held accountable, she's not demonized, I don't understand why people are so crazy in this comment section. She just shared her story, as a living person who had daily face to face interaction with the devil.
I am therefore I think, as I recall the interviewer asked her a question framed in such a way as to have her denounce her own involvement with Hitler or be seen as sympathetic to his actions. That is what motivated my comment. I wish you well.
I think that's a natural thing to ask, if I one day find out that my boss is the god of all psychos, who killed millions of people, I will lose my mind, and it's natural for someone ask me how I feel.
My point is Elizabeth was in the devil's nest, that alone doesn't make her innocent. But she was working there, she's been brainwashed.
It happens on occasion that one is damned if they do and damned if they don't. I'll say no more on the matter and bid you farewell.
As a german, the subtitles are poorly made and often incorrect.
ye its just your language
What did they get wrong? Just curious
@@Noname-uw8mh „it was the first time in my life I wasn‘t hungry“ she just said it was the first time she ate that dish
Did she meant that Hitler wasn't reading often or he didn't possess enough books for a man in this post
The interviewer was trying to get her to say she regretted it, but why would she, she had a fanstastic time in a beautiful place, somewhere she felt lucky to work. We try to hold the people of a nation to account for the war crimes of the few. They didn't have any power back then, anymore than we do today. 'Austria was blinded...' the same could be said for the Russian people now. I'm glad she shared her insights, it's fascinating, important and part of our history.
you guys weren't there when this happened, so stop blaming her for what she did.
she didnt do anything
@TheDarkerKnight Erm dude you literally replied too a comment hating on her shut the fuck up xD
@TheDarkerKnight aww get the hell out from here you liar,we can see through your profile you dumb ass
@silva geko i did and it's f*cking annoying
All the butthurt Nazis in the comments... You are all so pathetic.
Self-declared history experts: "Why didn't she kill him?"
People with a rational mind: "That's an interesting interview. It helps to understand Hitler and the Nazi time"
😂
Way more influental people tried to kill Hitler and they failed if she tried that probably she and her entire family would have been killed
Plus i doubt people would know what he was doing with the minorities....
As a Historian, I’m more inclined to the latter than the former. It’s honestly fascinating (and RARE) to find staffers, especially close attendants. Since, you know, most of them are either dead, killed, or vanished by the point anyone wanted interviews without the preface of interrogation and summary execution. Some people today would be inclined to do similar, if current events say anything. But to hear her talk both fondly of the good moments, and somberly of that which she disliked or noted as serious, gives an interesting insight to not only her character as a person, but to Hitler and his staff.
Although, I know a fair amount of the population that would enterprise themselves fit for the former. Because everyone wants to think they’ll do the right thing, or what they perceive to be the right thing. Feeling confident that they could do it, with the tact of a T-Spoon.
I mean how could she? He had security. Was the most powerful man in Germany at the time and killed millions of people. I'd be scared of him
Interviewer tried to put words into the old lady’s mouth.
That part was irritating
Amazing the she didn’t play her way, when interviewer tried to make her say she wouldn’t go to Berghof, lady actually said no because she was young and it was an good opportunity for her.
I'm not saying a dissagree I do 100% and I'm not trying to spark up anything but dont think down because shes an old lady
A fascinating interview. It’s not difficult to see that she wrestles with the past. On the one hand she was a young women who was thrown in to a position with great prestige, having likely never left her home town to then go and work for Hitler. It must have been thrilling. I have no doubt those early years were great memories for her. On the other hand she came out the other side and was confronted by the criminality and barbarity of the regime in full force, something she had been shielded from before in the inner circle. Trying to come to terms with both must have been a difficult position many of that generation faced.
What about the criminality and barbarity of countries that won and got to write history? Germany was not uniquely evil. It's the Allied propaganda that's making her feel bad when she shouldn't.
@@skillfuldabest Germany tried to systematically wipe out entire races of people based on a warped and flawed ideology. Evil is evil, unique or not. If you imagine that the Allies were ‘equally’ evil then there’s probably not much I can say that will convince you otherwise and it’s a pointless endeavour.
This lady is honest and awesome. Those who dislike her are hopeless fools.
Why is that?
@@taurusbull8276 Because people on UA-cam are Hitler apologists.
She was safest right where she was. Sad, truth.
Rhonda,
.... As were his cooke and doctor, both Jews.
Watch "The Greatest Story Never Told" and learn what really happened
Richard T. Minio ... go ahead, accept the "authorized" history like a good little NPC. truth is truth... it doesn't matter how much the powers that be want to intimidate people to believe otherwise or paper over the truth with layer upon layer of deceptions. I guess you believe 9/11 happened just like they told it... and the Jews had nothing to do with it... haha.. idiot
P B : who declared war on Hitler before WWII ? Was Kristalnacht authentic or staged? Who is responsible for most anti-semitic hate crimes today (hint: the victim is the perpetrator - to garner sympathy)? Why did Hitler invade Poland? To save who from what by who? What did Hitler say in Mein Kampf? Who helped Jews with safe passage to settle in Israel (the REAL final solution)? Who are the real persecutors of Jews (hint: the Jewish Elite, as in any satanic cult)?
That certificate alone would be worth millions.
Alfonso perez not even as toilet paper in any decent human being. I hope her grand child realizes it, before it comes in the hands on neo-nazis mentality.
It's a piece of history and it's cool, you don't have to be a Neo-Nazi to think it's nice to own something as extremely rare as a signed certificate by Hitler. People like owning rare, historical items and that doesn't make them indecent human beings just because it used to belong to the "bad guys". Don't be such a close-minded fuck.
Makaveli250 dor the pursuit of history, I agree. Otherwise burn the thing down, because the monsters have burned it way more valuable historical deeds.
It should be donated to a museum.
Lucia Kelp I mean if I had a genuine sigiture from napolion or Stalin it would be amazing. Why is hitler different?
Thank you for providing unbiased news. This is very insightful and shows that not everyone on the wrong side actually knew at the time the atrocities that had taken place
if you are blaming this woman for anything - you are obviously sick in the head and that's a fact!
Bul Mnstr no fact it’s not your delusional to-think keeping a card from a murderer is perfectly ok and that I not once heard her say she was sorry for the families.
@@bjoy1030 what did she know? the Germans knew abt the Jew bashing, but they were told that they were only being "relocated", not tortured and then brutally killed. Also, she is definitely sorry for those families. You don't have to explicitly say it to show it. Her tears for the boy who couldn't drink the milk shows it enough
@@bjoy1030 she doesn't have to be sorry for the families.. She didn't execute anybody, she took a job which she also probably had no choice in.. Remember she was "summoned" to the employment agency, I'm pretty sure she didn't have a choice and even if she did, who would turn that kind of opportunity down
Agree. Sick of people who were born in the 21st century banging on like they would have been rebellious heroes in the 30s and 40s.
MysteryFan you just said nobody is blaming this woman then go on to address Bridgett Johnson who is obviously faulting the old lady.
9:09 when the reporter read out what was on the board and then started looking and zooming in at the old lady like "do you have to ad anything to that, you murderous fascist?" i felt really bad for the old lady. what the hell was the reporter expecting from her? didnt even ask a question.
dumb move...
9:30 haha there is it... "...und vielen menschen das leben kosteten"
then silence....
..reporter starts looking at her.....
... camera zooming in on her...
pure cringe. so unneccesary, and a bad move in terms of journalism
Wow
A 19 year old country maid had a hand in nothing.
I loved her honesty and her candid remarks.
Lip service only. She was one of them.
@@busterbiloxi3833 They all were. To be fair, most people can be programmed
She's unforgettable, gone through harder times after the swift from nearly abandoned destination. What must had she faced in all? Admirations for her. True Duties.
Nothing admirable about any of it, she even implied she’d let her younger self do it all again because she felt “privileged”. That’s textbook definition of Selfishness and narcissism.
@@LukeAlexan Loyal to any royal , does not mean or create any disregard. More than half population or say generations are serving and not own any disrespect, regardless of professional / non-professional delinquencies.
Like someone commenting, "Brutal Honesty".
theirs more comments talking about people to stop hating on her then their is actually of people hating on her
Wanna fight with me?im a tough guy
*t h e i r s*
This is the thought I had. 99% of comments are of people complaining about the 1%.
@@jaylovestesla1099 I could destroy you
your uncle I accept your challenge
My german mother was a young Red Cross nurse during WW2. She drove a truck to bomb sites to save lives and, like the lady in this video and most germans, she had no idea about atrocities commited by Hitler or the Party. The people were not told about these things and most did not encounter it or see it in every day life. Insead she saw her closest childhood friend and neighbour killed, together with the entire familiy, when her street was bombed. She narrowly missed death on several occassions and saw a fellow nurse gunned down and killed next to her in a field when they were being machine gunned at terrifyingly close range by low flying allied aircraft. She dug out countless small shrivelled bodies burnt by napalm dropped on civilians by UK and US aircraft. All she wanted to do was save lives and help people. She wanted to go to the front line to save soldiers lives there, but thankfully the war ended before this could happen. You could not find a more kind hearted or more gentle person. This is the reality. Yet when she moved to the UK after the war she was called a Nazi and attacked. She turns 98 this year (2022).
That is very sad that your mother experienced such horrors of war and then was treated in such a way by the British 😞
@Jamie it's not just the UK. Every country has its ignorant people. Americans were awful to immigrants long ago. And in Europe we still have some racists and bigots
None of the German citizens knew about the Holocaust. My fathers good friend Heinrich Geisler grew up just down the road from a death camp. They were told the odor in the wind was coming from the Reich slaughter house. Fucking sickening.
I hope she is doing well, I love to hear some more stories. Please keep visiting her. She is a piece of history. I hope she has many healthy years, God bless her.
They all knew. Adolf Hitler had repeatedly forecast the extermination of every Jew on German soil. They knew these details because they had read about them. They knew because the camps and the measures which led up to them had been prominently and proudly reported step by step in thousands of German media articles and posters. I'm not saying Germans are evil and I believe all humans have capability to be desensitised to atrocities but let's be real, they all knew exactly what was happening at the time. Those that claim otherwise are simply ashamed.
I think shaming a 92 year old is despicable. This reporter is pushing her own agenda.
and profiting
I don't think it was there to shame her... but I think she doesn't understand well that the privileges she had where at a cost. She still smiles when she thinks back to the time where she felt like prominence and joy... kinda think that's disgusting tbh. Just my opinion.
Yes she was clearly pushing an agenda however the elderly lady is just like so many sweet German ladies ive talked to and have known.
@@covermission6691 Thank you God bless you! God bless the USA for freeing the world of these Nazi bastards lunatics.
i don't think she was shaming her. the lady had guilt , she's the one who kept it a secret. why would she if she was so proud to work for him.
What a sweet, kind lady. Anyone in her position during that era would feel privileged to have that occupation. These days, not so much. I admire her honesty and so sweet of her to have given an interview. Many would be too ashamed. She is truly a figure of our darkest moments in history. According to the Salzburg obituary notices , she passed away March 24 2022, at the age of 97.
This woman did exactly what any of us would have done if she was in her place. All the admiration for this woman and for her special sincerity. And last but not least, for her lucidity at this age
No. You never heard of Oskar Schindler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sophie Scholl in the White Rose (a resistence group)? They were all Germans. Corrie Ten Boom wasn't German, she was Dutch. All of them resisted Hitler and his Nazi regime and their killing by the millions those they deemed "life unworthy of life". Do your due diligence and start by finding the short film titled "Sing a Little Louder" directed by Jeremy Wiles. It's here on UA-cam. It's based on a true story.
No, not all humans are cowards like her. People died for what was right. But you dont hear of them
@@SafeSpaceInc this was before they knew what he was up to
@@granny58 No it isn't.
@@SafeSpaceInc oskar was rich, powerful he had control over local nazis because he had utensil factory under his control, while this women was poor
The interviewer poses silly questions. The lady and her tale is very interesting though.
She is gorgeous though. (Interviewer)
silly was the behavior of your idol and his comrades
@@seanl7856 yes thank god she's so pretty and dimwitted at the same time.
What a wonderful and honest woman!! The reporter shouldn’t have asked what she should have done different. It was not her fault that he did what he did… She took the job so she could have a better life and food on the table. When I hear these stories and how people complain nowadays about their life’s I have even more respect for people from her generation and how they turned out such a good human beings!!
Yeah, that question was bizarre. Of course, this millennial interviewer would obviously go back in time and save the day. In her own mind. Lol.
@STONESGAM You're bizarre and I question your morality. The correct answer would have been I would scream at my younger self to turn around and never look back or to kill that monster. You have no morals or honor.
It was a great question cause the answer revealed the complexity of being part of history while it is unfolding. It’s never as black and white as people want it to be
I admire Elisabeth’s honesty and the fact that she held on to her reality. She was doing her job and being there was a form of upward social mobility for her. She acknowledges how terrible and absolutely horrible the things that he did were, but she can’t deny her experience. She’s authentic. You’d have to be in that very situation to understand her point of view. Very good interview.