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Brunhilde Pomsel's Responsibility For The Holocaust

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(1) What is Pomsel 's responsibility for the Holocaust? Brunhilde Pomsel was employed as Joseph Goebbels former secretary, in which she referred to as "just another job." She interacted with the Nazi inner circle during the second world war. She took part in the falsification of statistics used by the Nazi propaganda minister to start the hatred for the Jews. She worked under Goebbels orders until she was captured by Russian soldiers. According to what she states in the provided article, "Goebbels’s Secretary Struggles With Her Responsibility," she was not responsible for the Holocaust and that she found out about what her actions led to later on. (2) Is the worker always responsible for the products/actions of his/her employer? In most

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