A German Life

International Competition for Feature and Medium-length

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Uma Vida Alemã
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Uma Vida Alemã
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Diretor Christian Krönes
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Diretor Florian Weigensamer
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Diretor Olaf S. Müller
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Diretor Roland Schrotthofer

As a staff member of the Nazi administrative machine, Brunhilde Pomsel (1911-2017) was the secretary and personal stenographer of the Propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. In this BW stripped-down documentary she talks about her work, which included, among other things, cooking the statistics, i.e., increasing the number of rapes committed by the Soviet army against German women and reducing the number of German soldiers killed on the battlefield. In spite of this, she denies any sense of guilt. With a remarkable lucidity and candidness, Brunhilde becomes a symbol of the silent majority who, through their passivity, allowed one of the greatest tragedies in humankind‘s history to happen.