"I know no one ever believes us nowadays — everyone thinks we knew everything. We knew nothing, it was all kept well secret," Pomsel, now 105, says in an interview with The Guardian.

Instead, Pomsel remembers the niceties of the man history knows as a rabid anti-Semite who strongly supported the Holocaust and would poison his six children when the Nazi war machine collapsed in 1945.

"Sometimes, his children came to visit and were so excited to visit daddy at his work. They would come with the family's lovely Airedale.

They were very polite and would curtsy and shake our hands," says Pomsel, who added that Goebbels and his wife Magda "were both very nice to me."

Pomsel told The Guardian that people who nowadays say they would have stood up against the Nazis "are sincere in meaning that, but believe me, most of them wouldn't have …

"The whole country was as if under a kind of a spell … The idealism of youth might easily have led to you having your neck broken."

Now blind, she wants to pass away in "months rather than years" and hopes "the world doesn't turn upside down again as it did then, though there have been some ghastly developments, haven't there?

"I'm relieved I never had any children that I have to worry about."

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• Newsmax
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"Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler" by intelligence specialist Mark Riebling details actions by Pius to stop Hitler.

The author wrote that Pius cooperated in a variety of plots, initiated by patriotic, anti-Nazi Germans, to assassinate Hitler and replace the National Socialist regime with a government that would make peace with the West.

The Nazis were deeply disturbed by the election of Pius XII in 1939, given Eugenio Pacelli's history.

The Nazis commissioned an assessment of the situation from Albert Hartl, a former Catholic priest, who warned that the Catholic Church would prove a serious threat to the Third Reich.

"The Catholic Church fundamentally claims for itself the right to depose heads of state," Hartl wrote, "and down to the present time it has also achieved this claim several times."

This statement seemed to embolden disaffected German officers who were seeking assistance to overthrow Hitler.

In 1938, several high-ranking German officers began turning against Hitler, for fear he would lead the country into a devastating war.

After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the German military conspirators sought to reach out to their adversaries, especially the British, to seek aid in overthrowing Hitler.

In order to do this, they needed a person who could serve as an intermediary and vouch for their integrity, and so they approached Pius XII, who was highly regarded in Britain.

They asked the pope's top assistants to ask Pius one critical question: Would he be willing to contact the British government and receive guarantees that it would back the German Resistance if Hitler was overthrown?

Pius XII replied that he was willing do so, declaring, "The German Opposition must be heard".

In subsequent efforts to overthrow Hitler, anti-Nazi officers received crucial moral and logistical support from Pius XII, as well as from his closest aides, the book seeks to show.

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• Breitbart
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