The former secretary of Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels has died, aged 106.
Brunhilde Pomsel, began working for Goebbels in 1942. After her boss died in the Führerbunker at the end of the war Pomsel disappeared into obscurity.
It was only in 2011 that she re-emerged, when a German newspaper published an interview with her, prompting a flurry of interest in the last surviving members of the NS leadership's inner circle.
She died in her sleep in Munich and her death was confirmed last night by Christian Kroenes, the director and producer of a documentary about her, A German Life.
In the documentary Pomsel talked about her three years working for the man responsible for spreading the National Socialist ideology in newspapers and across the airwaves.
She said: 'I wouldn't see myself as being guilty. Unless you end up blaming the entire German population for ultimately enabling that government to take control. That was all of us. Including me.'
She was inside the Fuhrer's bunker in Berlin in May 1945 when he shot himself as the Red Army closed in on the Führerbunker.
Pomsel described in the film how she was told to keep the NS top brass supplied with alcohol 'in order to retain the numbness' and stave off the reality of their imminent defeat by the hated Russians.
Born in 1911, she left school in 1926 and started an apprenticeship with a Jewish wholesale manufacturer.
But as the Great Depression hit Germany she became unemployed, before getting a job as a shorthand secretary for Jewish insurance broker Dr Hugo Goldberg.