Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Woman who worked with Nazi architect of the Holocaust... & never felt any guilt
Goebbels’ secretary dies at 106
Weigensamer, believes Pomsel was in denial, even after five years in prisoner of war camps in and around her native Berlin until 1950.
He said yesterday: “She was very intelligent, quick-witted, funny even. She was just incredible for her age. What made her life so interesting was
TWO men have been charged over items taken from a wrecked Royal Navy warship.
John Blight and Nigel Ingram are accused of failing to declare items from HMS Hermes to the Receiver of Wreck.
The ship was torpedoed by a German submarine in the Dover Strait in October 1914 with the loss of 22 lives.
Kent police said an investigation began in August 2015 after reports “a number of that she was not one of the Nazis but one of their millions of followers. Her memory was very selective.”
Pomsel said she thought it was important that she “left something behind” to be shown in schools and she told of how she lost her best friend, a Jewish girl called Eva Lowenthal, in 1943.
Only in 2005 did she discover that she had been murdered in Auschwitz – and even then, she said she did not feel any
historic artefacts” were missing. Blight, 57, of Winchelsea, East Sussex, and Ingram, 56, of Teynham, Kent, who is also charged with being in possession of criminal property worth £16,000, have been bailed to appear at Margate magistrates court on March 2.
HMS Hermes was a protected cruiser built in the late 19th century and converted into an aircraft ferry and depot ship. sense of guilt for the acts of the murderous Nazi regime. Mr Weigensamer added: “All of a sudden, her friend was not there. But she did not look for her.”
The gate of Dachau concentration camp bearing the notorious slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (Work sets you free), stolen two years ago, will be returned after it was found in a remote Norwegian village. It has been insured for £426,000 for the trip.