[3] Her first two employers were Jews: first, a Jewish-owned clothing store where she worked as an assistant, then Dr. Hugo Goldberg, a lawyer and insurance agent.

[6][2] On the recommendation of a Nazi friend, she was transferred to the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in 1942, where she worked under Joseph Goebbels as a stenographer until the end of the war.

[7] According to Kate Connolly in the Guardian, she was more than just a secretary/stenographer; her tasks included "massaging downwards statistics about fallen soldiers, as well as exaggerating the number of rapes of German women by the Red Army".

[8] At the end of the war in 1945, Pomsel hid in the Vorbunker, part of the subterranean bunker complex that housed Hitler and Eva Braun in the final days of the Third Reich.

[9] She was released from the NKVD camp in 1950,[5] and escaped from the Soviet-occupied zone to West Germany, where she worked as a secretary with the state broadcaster Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden and then at ARD in Munich until her retirement in 1971.

[6] In 2005, Pomsel travelled to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin and discovered that a Jewish school friend, Eva Löwenthal, had been sent to Auschwitz in November 1943 and died.

[5] A 113-minute documentary called A German Life by filmmakers Christian Krönes, Olaf Müller, Roland Schrotthofer and Florian Weigensamer, drawn from a 30-hour interview with Pomsel, was shown at Filmfest München in 2016.