Former maid to Adolf Hitler interview
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- čas přidán 13. 12. 2016
- כאן | Elizabeth Kalhammer is now a 92 year old woman. yet she has a secret story in her past. She used to work at Hitler's private estate from 1943 to 1945
KAN | Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reporter - Antonia Yamin interviewed the Former maid to Adolf Hitler - on her life at his private estate
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"I would've killed him."
No you wouldn't. If you grew in that era with those people in these circumstances, you absolutely wouldn't.
You could try but you'd have to deal with a bad outcome. Hitler killed his own best general because he thought he may have been part of an assassination attempt. He'd just as easily do away with anyone else who even spoke about it.
Those who say theyd kill him are pretty likely to have been his supporters. Think about it, they just say what they think will make them look good.
@@frederikzinn5427 true
a small minority might
@@frederikzinn5427 no u just stupid
Not many people have a christmas card signed by Adolf Hitler.
I wonder how much is that piece
@@mimimi7387 people would pay a lot of money for that but she has no intention in selling it so will be passed down to family
@@mimimi7387 possibly millions
I wouldn't want it. I would burn that fucking thing.
Actually you're the only one who doesn't.
She said it was the first time in her life she wasn't hungry. Her experience was significant in so many ways. She was in the middle of history in the making with a point of view of no other, why would she turn her 20 year old self around. Great interview
As an Austrian, the translation about her not being hungry for the first time in her life is wrong.
She said "Zum erschtn moi wos i gessn hob was i nu gaunz genau, an Reis mit Eierschwammerl [den i] is erste moi in meim Lebn gessn ghobt hob" which, correctly translated, means that she ate rice with mushrooms for the first time in her life. She doesn't say anything about hunger. There are multiple mistranslations in this video, sadly.
I agree with the rest of your comment.
@@wimetty6559Can you please translate the mistranslations and put the timestamps for your corrections?
@@wimetty6559 Well that's great to know. Doesn't change my opinion, consider my comment corrected with "she ate rice with mushrooms for the first time. Her experience..."
same holds true for SS guards
@@wimetty6559Thank you for taking the time to provide the correction and your honesty. 🙏🏼
This woman is/was a historic treasure. I thank her for her truthfulness and brutal honesty. I know it could not have been easy.
Just because she’s honest doesn’t make her a good person, I would rather die than work for a terrible person like hitler
She was an historic treasure, and it is sad that we lost her, and that she did not share her experiences sooner. It is a huge loss, especially now that so very few are remaining, when someone so close to a major event in world history dies, and all their direct knowledge and memories die with them.
Very huge loss a woman who helped Hitler to brutally kill rape and torture millions of Jews,
Yes she deserved a longer life for sure!
Hitler died in 1965 in venezuela
Lol both of you are clowns 🤡 ignorant American clowns
Stop making the poor old women like she is evil
She only did what she need to survive
Dres Rosa I feel hella bad for her tho
Dres Rosa finally someone who understands
pretty much.
same could be said about the other soldiers who were forced to kill innocent people right? they only followed orders to survive.
@@celestino001 Yes. Conscripted soldiers who would of been killed by Nazi regime if they did not partake in the war and follow orders. Not just them but their families as well. Tell me something.
If someone came to you and pointed a gun at your head but not just yours but your brother, sister , wife and child. Would you bend the knee and fight to keep them alive or rebel and watch them all die?
She is honest, and that is admirable. She doesn't approve of what Hitler did. But she had a wonderful time working for him, and she is not going to pretend she didn't.
ABC DEF
She knew he was a Charles Mason... But at the time she was on the winning side. Think of the many opportunities she had to kill him.
Danielchai S I just noticed that I agreee
ABC DEF Screw her!!!! She should have killed him when she had an opportunity!!!! Poison or something???, Sneak up behind him with a cord around his neck. .There must of been a way. . she could of stopped the Holocaust!!! ...but no!! she enjoyed his company!!!
Danielchai S - you have some illusions. I don't deny that "everybody knew" that something "bad" was happening. But she believed what she was told. She had spent her childhood in fascist Austria and her youth in Nazi influence. I'm Austrian - with some relatives coming from exactly such villages, small towns that she did - and now being the same age as her. I'm Israeli, too, by the way. I don't feel very comfortable hearing her (it's a discourse I heard often), but she's honest. Back in the day not many (if anyone) from her background would have refused or have any complaints. Many, though, didn't change their minds later, or understand what she finally understood. Many still live in denial (as far as they're still alive anyway).
mauso m ...of course you are
I'm an American, born and raised. My grandmother was born in Munich Germany. I remember coming home from school one day, and telling her how we learned about Hitler, and how horrible of a person he was. She looked at me with a look of anger I had never seen before. I don't remember the conversation word for word, but she told me that before Hitler came to power, the Economy was HORRIBLE. It was after WW1, and just before WW2. She said they had to wait in line 3 hours or longer just to get a loaf of bread! Sometimes, they would get nothing. When Hitler came into power, the economy flourished, and people and their families could eat a good meal. Something most Americans take for granted. I'm not saying Hitler was a good man, but I try to envision living in a world where you can barely feed your family, and then all of a sudden, a new man comes into power, and your family can live a better life and eat good. Now that I'm older, I can understand my grandmother's point of view. Perception is everything, and propaganda is King.
R.I.P. Oma. I miss you
Yes, for a few years, if you weren't Jewish, mentally handicapped, Romani, or homosexual, life was better and food was plentiful in Germany. Then the massacres and holocaust started, along with the most destructive war ever: many tens of millions of people died, including around 8 million Germans - almost an entire generation of young German men.
It's quite hard for me to understand your grandmother's perspective as she should have been aware of _all_ of the above by the time she scolded you. I'm sorry to say it, but it looks like she was a Nazi sympathizer.
this is a myth lmao, only for the affluent and upper middle class did things get better and it was from fed from the unsustainable profits of a war economy. For the vast majority of germans, the working class, things got worse. Inflation rose, wages were cut, all for the fatherland. They were told to like it and work. Not to mention the minor economic boost to those in the upper class could have been achieved through smart economic policy and they could have made even more than they did. Instead of a war that murdered millions of people.
Thats what some people do not understand when they make silly comments about the times before WW2 started. For Germans it was a great time of prosperity and like You said, they could feed their families and finally make a good living. Unemployment dropped dramatically and the economy was booming. You can't hate on the people who lived in those times and went with the flow of things, since everything at that time was really good for the German people.
I think it all comes down to integrity and morals. How far will you go to survive? Let's use a drug dealer or stripper for example. Do you take pride in the choice you made and those that disgrace those that argue its not the most moral living or do you admit it's not the best choice but it was the fast option available at the time to survive.
Pctcychi
I admire her honesty. Being young she was isolated and secluded from truth and provided with food and security she had never had previously. It was only when she returned home that she faced the reality outside of the world she had been sanctioned to live in. Blessings to her.
It is wild to see someone who worked for Hitler holding an I pad
everyones isolated from truth dude.. old and young..
She said that her bedroom was so pretty that she didnt want to make it wrinkled, so you can imagine as a young girl she never saw anything like that because she was poor. I admire her for telling her story.
The Posen/Poznan conference somewhat confirms that even very high ranking Nazi (outside of direct Holocaust architects) weren't aware of the horrors.
Himmler made a speech at this conference for the explicit reason of implicating other high ranking Nazis.
This is a woman who was a maid at Hitler's house. So what? I mean, sure it is interesting, she might even have stories of Hitler in a lighter moment. She killed nobody, she cleaned dishes, cleaned the house, brought Hitler his food... She is no criminal. She is not responsible for anyone's death. I guess you can say she didn't try to kill Hitler, but would YOU have had the courage to do it? I wouldn't have. I would have smiled at Hitler, Eva Braun and their guests. Always happy. People generally don't think of happy people as suspicious. This lady is just fine in my book.
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I would have the courage to kick him in the ball.
Don't forget who's making the documentary
She also had NO CLUE what was happening outside of there
@@vcat1832 Good luck with that. He killed his own best general.
6:45
"He wouldn't get up before 2 p.m and he wouldn't go to bed before 4 in the morning"
for once,I can kinda relate to Hitler
me too....the life of gamers and curiousers
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"School nights" grow up kid
fjkfdls fsdalds you have a bedtime?
@@hdualsjei3alegw9wp45 Lazy loser that conquered whole europe and was loved by his people
Of course, when you have war on your mind I'm sure it never stops racing
This woman has nothing to be ashamed of or regret I admire her for her honesty
😂😂😂
@@georgejones4435 yes she served them, nothing to be ashamed about doing the noble job of domestic service. She couldn't choose to serve non-nazis in 1938 Austria could she? What do you suggest she should do for a living? Or maybe she should have starved to death waiting for the denazification of Austria to pick a job?
@@georgejones4435 She didnt know he was putting people in camps, etc. You should be more open- minded. Her honesty is good. I'm personally glad she got to have a better life for a few years.
@@georgejones4435 but also to add onto what I said, those things that hitler did..were his OWN decisions. No one else is to blame but him. She has nothing to be ashamed of. Be respectful of other experiences.
@@georgejones4435 would you say the same to those who served british empire
All of his secretaries spoke very positively about him. They said that he was polite, warm, and caring. Some of them wrote down their memories ("He Was My Chief" by Christa Schroeder, "Until the Final Hour" by Traudl Junge).
As i can see in this video. Deep in the corner of her heart, she deeply respects and loves Hitler.
He wasn't polite, warm and caring towards the innocent Jews. She also said, "Hitler were crazy" for murdering millions of Jews.
As long as we're not praising him .....
Why is my arm up?
@@j.d.445
He is certainly the Man you should be praising.
We are the last generation that will be able to meet these people in person
True, but video's such as this will survive for centuries.
I graduated college so that I can type with incorrect grammar if i want bro, i really don't see what your goal is here, i doubt you have achieved anything in life that gives you the gall to be a Grammar Nazi in the youtube comment section.
Buffalo State man, it wasn't the best but got the job done, not too sure what you're trying to prove here, but my bad for the spelling mistake I suppose.
MCDoW Not you, KoivuTheHab it just happened to tag you, sorry dude.
I wish I got to meet my great grandmother from Poland. She died after few months I was born. She got to see me and hold me as a baby but I wish I can time travel to go see her.
so sad they didn’t translate what she said properly, at one point she called hitler a clown lmao
are u german?
Mary Mukamb yep
@@jules9266 oh cool... i have b2 in german, but omg i can't tell what she's speaking :( only at certain times... what dialect is this?
Mary Mukamb pretty sure this is an austrian dialect, I come from bavaria so I understand it cause the bavarian dialect is similar to the austrian dialect. Dont worry bc you dont understand it, germans that dont understand bavarian dont understand the austrian dialect either.
@@jules9266 ohh thank you that's very sweet of u
My heart breaks for her, being one of the few remaining who were there, finding only after what they had indirectly had a part in.
Your heart doesn't have to break for her, she's living wat more comfortably that 95% of the world population, she'll be just fine thank you
don't think she had a part in the war now do you
Big respect on Elizabeth on her honesty , like no one would admit that they had a great time working with Hitler, but she did. She grew up in starve and working with Hitler could make her feel full, it is like this was the only choice for her by that time , Hitler might do a lot of bad things but luckily he hired this historical treasure so that we can see this interview today. Rest in peace legend, we hope you had a better after life.
It's so ridiculous this interviewer attempts to shame her at the end. Coming from a poor village with nothing to working for the most powerful person in europe. Anyone would have taken that job! They just used her for the story and threw her to the curb at the end. Poor lady.
Because this Jew hates Europeans and especially Germans.
@@DavidJones-pc9jn wha-
Why?
Violence is never the silatuion no matter how angry you are at someone.
You would become just as terrible as the one's you think were terrible before. There is no excuse of hurting anyone,of any race or religion.
This women was young,maybe naive. She came from a poor family,and needed a job,maybe she didn't know any better. You can see that she is not proud of Hitler's actions and that she doesn't think that what he was doing was right,and neither do I.
I don't want to attack you,or make you feel bad.
I just simply wanna tell you that everyone deserves a second chance,and so does this woman.
@@DavidJones-pc9jn You're a jacka zz.
David Jones why?
I don't really see it. She essentially asked that in hindsight, it was a bad idea to work there, and she gave a very human response. I've seen people "thrown to the curb" in interviews and if this was such, it was certainly the most gentle version I've ever seen.
She was simply surviving. It was either live in a mansion with a secure job and home or continue to not know the feeling of being full from eating. I appreciate her honesty and can tell she’s sincere.
@H S you have not one clue as to how hard it was and in that point in time. Not one single clue.
@H S you are more than one very extremely stupid person. What else could she do? Why would she do something else?
True, all these people saying "Oh why didnt she just kill hitler" like she was 19.. like it still wouldn't have done shit, someone would probably have taken Hitler's place. I mean it's bad that she framed a note signed by hitler along with a jewish artifact. But she is one of the last survivors of WW2. not many people who were alive during that period are still alive. Its apart of history, Like she has 1 thing in the world that is very valuable and it's from that time period. If she was to "Kill hitler" not only would Heinrich himmler and the death squad shoot her on the spot, but she was also fucking 19. She was surviving. People acting like she is the one who sent millions of people to their death. People clearly didnt watch it. She cries about how bad and crazy Hitler was but she enjoyed staying there because she was safe and she had no idea that he was committing atrocities. It's really not her fault.
I don’t have a problem with her taking the job, she was young and it was exciting. I have a problem the way she’s looking back on the experience. No regrets, sounded like a true nazi when she was saying ‘I was proud’ ‘people looked up to me’ then just a casual but it was terrible what they did. She knew more than she’s letting on!
@H S How could you be so ignorant?
Austrian here to report some minor inaccuracies in the translation of her dialect. At 6:17 for example, she's talking about rice with golden chanterelles ("Eierschwammerln"), not rice with eggs and mushrooms ("Eiern und Schwammerln"). Also, she doesn't say it was the first time in her life that she wasn't hungry, but that she never had that meal before.
Ignorance is bliss. I understand why she didn't know what to tell her young self because if she had then she could possibly have lived in a constant state of fear whilst choosing the same path. Also, this was amazing. Thank you for sharing this. I thank her for her honesty as well.
6:24 "It was the first time in my life I wasn´t hungry" - how do you tell a very poor young girl not to work at a mansion, where the most "admired" person , at the time , lived?
6:21*
You're right. You did not even have to be young.
However, it's not translated correctly. She says it was the first time she did eat that kind of meal.
Nevertheless, as she says before 2:30 : everyone had been poor.
That includes starvation. If you watch film material of that time, you almost only see people who are extremely lean. I know stories of a few relatives (I'm German) where in cultivated families children would have fought each other over a slice of bread, the parents had to distribute exact shares for everyone, every day, for years. Children going to school in the snow without winter clothes. Classrooms where in winter ink had to be put on the oven to melt it, so you could write with it, because the classroom was that cold.
As she says at 2:40: The people in the village drew hope from ONE meal of goulash that the military served. That says something about the conditions under which your mind just circles around staying alive.
There are so many things told out of context and oversimplified, especially in German schools. It's sad. Then, on the other hand: how many people care about getting informed? Audiatur et altera pars. And listen to those who are honest. Like this woman.
It's easy to incite further hate with stories of wartimes.
man of the year 1938 for a reason
Plasma Plasma John Doe - Did you just say that Hitler’s winning man of the year was justified and good? This woman was well treated, and STILL ate the leftovers off of the plates.
@@Erin-Thor I assume the leftovers from the table not from their plates.
"He wouldn't get up before 2pm, and he wouldn't go to bed before 4 in the morning"
I didn't know I had so much in common with Hitler
same
It's 4:30 AM, and im going to bed. I will also sleep in the position Hitler slept.
@@winecheese2185 bro youre basically hitler!
He was prepared for the jet lag should he land at JFK
Wkwk
Fascinating. Excellent piece. Good journalism. You gave us truth and got out of the way. Great work.
I am grateful for the posting of a highly valuable video🙏🙏🙏🙏
She is more reliable than my history book from school.
@@mr.blackhawk142 .............Not much going on between your ears, is there. You vile piece of garbage.
@Isreal Galivjan..................You're an imbecile.
She probably would have been tried for crimes she never committed. I don't blame her for staying silent.
History likes to look at the negatives instead positives.
@@compoturn1029 She was the fucking housekeeper, not a nazi general.
If you get a chance to meet with a person from ww2 you really should prepare some intelligent questions...
Or let them just Talk and listen the story . Put your job aside and just take notes
@@MxmdAmn unless you have to suffer...... that's Man world.....not gayss🌈 for sure
@@hamasientnber3130 what does that have to do w my comment ???
@@MxmdAmn if you put your job aside that mean you afraid........so Talk shit even now in front of Trump or Kim no one will know where your grave is!!! Go back to your statement
@@hamasientnber3130 those guys you mentioned and this old woman are two different people. I was talking about respect and letting her tell her full story but instead we got few details .
Fobs like you are everywhere these days
I'm glad she embraces her experiences there. It's part of what makes you who you are. She had no idea of what the Nazis were up to in those camps. Few did. My grandmother was not even from Germany but when my family fled to Germany during the war, like all children she had to join the Hitler youth. Did not make her a bad person or a nazi - it is just the way it was. I grew up with a lot of German culture as a result of my family's time in Germany during the war. In a way, Hitler's actions made my birth possible - no war, no fleeing the country, my grandparents never meet, and I am never born - so even now, I think of it as something indelibly linked to my existence.
yea that’s crazy
Thankyou for posting this. Very good piece of history for anyone to be able to view easily
To me when she said , when she started working there . " For the first time in my life I was not hungry " , is very moving . She is an amazing old lady with a clear memory !
Except she didn't. She said: "That was the first time in my life i ate this(type of meal)"
Patrick Schuberth wow
She sold her soul for a plate of food
In a country of starving people after sanctions from the world anyone would love her job!! Many Jewish people turned on there own people for food and safety!
@@AMcDub0708 nope, she didn't have any idea that she will become one of Hitler's servants/maid. Her fellow countrymen were also brainwashed by Hitler's ideologies. The opportunity that was given to her is also part of propaganda, if you watched the whole video she didn't tell that the Nazi authorities recruited her without telling the details or giving any contract about her job. Strategy to recruit workers by word of mouth. The difference is the Nazi authorities didn't use violence to her and to her fellow countrymen while the Jewish people who went to Auschwitz were forced laborers.
Lots of people in world history were brainwashed because of propaganda, using poverty for opportunity, and hidden agenda of crooked politicians. Even today... most especially if a certain leader has a strong solid ideology and dictatorship, and doesn't give any single amount of compassion about humanity, a leader can turn people into blind follower. Those blind followers were also victims of false hope and toxic positivity. I suggest you guys watch the movie OUR BRAND IS CRISIS.
I respect her honesty. If you put yourself in her shoes, it's kind of hard to blame her. She went from being a poor and hungry young woman to a person with status and a very comfortable life. She also genuinely believed that she was doing a service to her country. Most people today would play down their experiences to avoid the stigma, but I don't know that many people would actually make different choices in her circumstances.
So you would work with a psycopath that killed millions of inocent people over some money and status? Sorry but human life is more important than any material thing, included money.
That's why so many people got caught in it, I mean, the regime-the poverty. She should have known what that ideology was about.
Nowadays, we have another similar maniac and drug addict who spreads around hatred, namely W. Putin. Now, to put myself in her shoes, if his delegates came to me and said, "Hey Mr Sławomir, would you like to work for Mr Putin, say as his driver?". My answer is "No. Go to hell with your f...g job. I don't work for war criminals. " There are more important things in life than money and prestige. If I were to accept the offer, it would be only to poison the bastard 😂
Regards
@Adolf Hitler To call yourself A. Hitler is weird, very weird
@Adolf Hitler Sick minds, sick ideas
how would she know what was going on.
This is amazing! Love to see history documented. To hear the thoughts and memories of a person who was actually there and saw it all happen, that's priceless!🙏
What a beautiful and respectful interview. Thank you.
According to what I found on an Austrian obituary page, Elisabeth passed away in March 2022 at the age of 97. May she rest in peace and may we continue to thank her for sharing her incredibly insightful story to be preserved for future generations of historians.
I'm so sad to know that... She had a full life, I wish I could hear all the stories she had to tell.
Faithful to a mad evil monster 🤔🤔🤔
@@dave.dunphy940 She wasn't even out of her teens when she took that job.
You will judge her now for things she did then, when she never knew the horrors being committed or could even fully comprehend them at the time?
Understand psychology and the complexities of it before you blindly judge others.
I'm not sure it was THAT insightful. "He was so nice to his dog". "It is what it is" as they say, if she were a butler then I doubt we'd all congratulate her. At the same time, I'm in Canada, our GOVERNMENT had a standing order policy to not allow any jews in, with one govenrment official sayig "one jew is too many". Its recorded that at LEAST one ship was stopped at the port, denied entry, then returned to Germany and those on board perished.
Its not like a lot of people have a high moral horse they can sit on, the comments on an anti war rally has commenters saying 'we need a strong military, we need to go kick butt'. So its hardly the case that we all turned our swords into plowshares today. How many people worked for George Bush Jr, who started a war just as illegal as the invasion of Poland. Would we praise a maid at the white house for telling a story about how George one time spoke kindly to her?
@@mikearchibald744 I’m a historian, and any first-hand accounts of major historical periods from *any* angle are insightful and are sometimes the most intriguing. The fact that she was a) an employee who had access to one of the most influential and secure institutions in Europe at the time and b) was alive at the time of filming to tell the story, make her valuable to a historian. It’s not necessarily the fact that she was once in the same room as Hitler, but that she had access to his inner world that was seen as an enigma to so many (not defending Hitler here folks, history has to be written about the repulsive ones too). I know professors of WWII history that would have scrambled at the chance to have her speak to their classes. We have plenty of accounts from the diaries of Queen Victoria herself, but what of her footmen who stood in the room as she met with her Prime Ministers to discuss the nation’s most sensitive issues at the time? They would have been able to contribute stories (often with little bias) and documents that may change our understanding of how a public figure of the time was perceived. Stories from everyday figures like these often complete the picture when it comes to our understanding of a certain era. It’s the teaching and recording of history, no matter how minute it’s perceived to be, that ultimately allows us to help prevent the unsavory parts from being repeated.
14:20 There's a big translation mistake that I want to point out here.
I'm German and I understand everything she says.
*She's speaking in **_present tense_** about how she felt at the time when she was actually there, at the Berghof!*
But the actual English subtitle is in _simple past_ - making it seem like she says that she's proud that she was there. *That's wrong* and I don't know if it's purposefully wrong (to make it look more dramatic) which saddens me.
Peace out.
Thank you brother from German mother
THat makes sense, and is how I understood it to be. Of course she was proud at the time, but why would she be proud to this day in her wise old years? You make perfect sense.
Lightnings I’m sure it was done on purpose. Look at who conducted the interview.
@@Blackpanthersrevenge This was aired on the Israeli news channel and I remember the original Hebrew subtitles very well as I saw it live. they were correct as Lightnings explained above, even the part where she called him a clown which is not translated in English here.
It was uploaded to CZcams a few days later and probably was translated to English by a less capable translator.
You talk out of your ass.. The interviewers treated her with respect and nothing bad was said about her in the press at all. in fact it was seen as admirable that she was truthful.
Germany and Israel have very good relations currently and this is cherished. When this was aired on the news people showed respect to her unlike you. so your just an ass.
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Lightnings , I hope my first paragraph cleared it up mate. thanks for noting this
Peace out
Top Dead Center big time!
It becomes impossible not to have a profound respect for this woman's honesty and transparency. She is actually genuine, melding the good and the bad. Her initiation into this realm was wholly innocent. She was sequestered from all 'badness'. And, to this 'dilemma' one could honestly ask why did Hitler choose a Jewish bodyguard (Emil Maurice, who was a member of the SS until 1945) and why were there so many Jews in Hitler's army (thousands of full Jews and more than 100 thousand part-Jews)? We are not supposed to probe so deeply but all this does is further exonerate Elizabeth Kalhammer's image. For political reasons, my post might be deleted, but the truth will never be denied. - David Lyga
What a beautiful woman, with an amazing story! God bless her for her honesty. She's a treasure.
I don't think this woman was involved in the decision making of any of the “final solution” or “what country should we invade next?” questions. I think she was more involved in the, “Which chocolate should I put on the pillow?” and “Should I open the window and let fresh air into the room ?” questions.
+apokalypse 2016 YESHUA loves you
Jesus loves us all, and surely weeps for the oppressed Palestinian people.
Germans didn't know about the concentration camps and didn't know about all the bad things the nazis did. They were brainwashed by hitler and I doubt this lady knew any better about everything when not even high ranked officers knew everything. So no, she's not a bad person and hitler did treat her well so I don't blame her for having good memories from when she was working for him. Now she understands how bad he was.
michaelterry1000 true
...But they knew about Jew-bashing.
Recruter: "So tell me about about your past job experiences?"
Her: "I worked for Hitler"
Recrtuter: "..."
best comment in the section
Lol
She had 2 do it to survive tho wouldn’t you? (The joke is funny)
Lolz
She was lucky.
Antonia Yamin and Elizabeth Kalhammer did this interview (it's more than just an interview) extremely well. Both. Two human beings.
God Bless BOTH...the 20 yo Elizabeth Kalhammer inside the 92 yo Elizabeth Kalhammer. She is amazing.
Why does she have to regret her life, she was a young kid it wasn’t her fault she had a job offer. There is nothing to say, it is terrible what hitler did, it’s not this lady’s fault she was just a maid telling her part of the story.
@Pichkalu Pappita No, you don't.
Amanda Walker ehhh it wasn’t that terrible
@@leezap9358 They didn't hire anyone. Do you know what "hire" even means? They couldn't "hire Nazis", bc they were also Nazis.
yea, if she has to regret with having that job, we all need to be ashamed to work in unilever , palm oil companies and plastic factories
Amanda Walker She doesn’t have to apologise or regret anything. George W. Bush is a war criminal and you don’t see his maids regretting or apologising for simply living their lives.
The interviewer wanted to redirect the ladies opinion to another subject, which it seemed unfair to me, but the old lady answer with truly sincerity.
The interviewer was trying to make her guilty
@@brownasiankid1782 I know. Sad for the youth, sad for the aged.
@@brownasiankid1782
No need to try, she IS guilty. As all of Hitler's supporters were.
"We didn't know" gets very old, very fast...
Yes they did know, she described the destruction of the Jewish stores, she sw the beatings... and she HEARD the conversations.
I'll tell you right now, if I was offered a job at Mar-a-lago, I would not take it!!!
@@abelis644 Yea thats right, you were there right? You KNOW what people saw and KNEW what people knew. Stop talking about things you know NOTHING about.
@@jojomo7859
Don't be ridiculous, look at the US right now, do you NOT think that the cleaning, cooking, gardening etc staff in the White House and at Maralago don't hear and see what tRump is up to??? Are you draft?
You cannot be that dumb... lol
She's unforgettable, gone through harder times after the swift from nearly abandoned destination. What must had she faced in all? Admirations for her. True Duties.
Nothing admirable about any of it, she even implied she’d let her younger self do it all again because she felt “privileged”. That’s textbook definition of Selfishness and narcissism.
I love that she made peace with her past and is sharing her story. Sometimes we can't see big truths until later on, everyone is just doing their best until they know better. Bless her.
she loves Israel and their annexation of palestine, so do you think she's going to heaven or hell .? the west are the most evil demons in the world and Hell will be mostly people from the west, have fun with your secularism and "democracy" you thieves and murderers
That was an answer that wasn’t expected !
What a lovely honest lady who would not be backed into a corner.
@Marie Johansson Im honest too. Thats why I called her out....
Youll believe anything wont you? You dont even need EVIDENCE
Faggatron she didn’t know what she was doing at the time. She was a young lady living her life trying to make a good life and survive during ww2
@@aktan4ik: You are a fanatic, and thus nothing better than a fanatical Nazi or fanatical communist or a fanatical Muslim.
You would not have thought that you are the same, but that's the way it is !!!
Faggatron Calling a 92 year old lady out? Nice you're so tough bro. This lady is not racist, She worked for hitler because of the circumstances.
"It was the first time in my life I wasn't hungry"
ellenfrancis67 shut the fuck up you idiot! where you there at the time? the people had nothing to eat, most of them saw two wars and had to fight their whole life long. i am impressed by her and all the others who survived such a brutale time! there are assholes everywhere and in every sociaty so shut up and don’t judge, because you know nothing
@ellenfrancis67 anddddd what was she supposed to do? stroll up to the camp and release everyone?
that’s actually not what she said, I’m from Salzburg. She says it’s the first time she ate that particiular dish lol the english translation is wrong
ellenfrancis67 you wouldn’t have done anything if you were her at the time too. They were all most likely part of the hitler youth corrupted and filled with propaganda. Most likely didn’t have a mind of their own.
*looks at full fridge*
that's so fucked up.
Great interview.
Thank you for sharing this video. God bless 🙏
"It was the first time in my life I wasn't hungry." -- that sentence is difficult to hear also
Her answers were perfect. The interviewer was not asking the best questions.
That's not what she actually said, the undertitles are wrongly translated.
@Cheryl Lynne hard to understand as she is speaking some kind of dialect, but I think she said it was her first time eating this dish.
The subtitles are not correct. She doesn't say "It was the first time in my life I wasn't hungry."
She said: "What I ate there ( at the Berghof) for the first time, I still remember exactly : rice with Eierschmarren. I ate this for the first time in my life."
Word explanation: Eierschmarren = a beaten egg, which is mixed with milk and flour, baked in the pan.
Not to me. Look, Austria was in dire straits when Hitler kicked in!
The old woman answered the last question in respect of honesty. Well done her. It s true
Nice engrish guys
@ijcn0jir3nvjn3fjcifn If you can't figure out the meaning behind her words, then you have no clue how to figure out complex answers and probably shouldn't be watching this video.
It seems she didn't get to choose to work there;
They got her the job
Also she was very poor as the rest of her village
The first meal she had at the Führer's house was the first time she was full - and not still hungry after she ate.
I admire her courage to give an honest interview ❤️
May her soul forever rest in peace ❤
What an amazing share. Gave us a glimpse from inside. RIP
The fact that they asked her a question she couldn’t answer at the end and still proceeded to make her feel bad for it the woman was nearly crying! Absolutely horrible. Don’t use the poor women just to get a video out of her
Just out of curiosity, is the one who did the video Jewish or have Jewish relations? Don’t hate me here, but making her cry like that, I’m thinking it was a sick twisted revenge of sorts. Disturbing.
Nathalie Le Maire I don’t really know myself unfortunately
Oh fuck off dipshit. She's a Nazi sympathizer and she doesn't hide that fact well. Go fuck yourself. Prioritize who you defend.
@@the406seadonkey6 I dont think she is a nazi sympathizer
Scott Magill i love how people are so uneducated like you that they think any german during the war that didnt want to be thrown in jail, did what the nazis said, is now automatically a nazi sympathizer.
I don't blame her at all, clothes, food, pride, admiration. Far more people have done worse than wash dishes for anyone of those things. This prejudice towards her is ridiculous. She was given an opportunity of a lifetime.
yeah... it's hard to think that someone would look back on those years as fond given everything we now know. On one hand you really don't blame her. On the other, it's interesting that the memories of the prisoners she met after the liberation don't affect her sense of pride of the opportunity she took. It's almost like "well that didn't happen to me, so I'm not sure what I would say to myself".
She also lived history, I bet there is an uncut version of this. And lucky if she wasn't sexually abused.
At that time in the war such things were impossible to get. The only time when the rich and the poor were equal to suffer the war. So she might would have died in the war if she wouldn't get the job, after all, the job keeps her safe and disconnected from the war although she knew what's going on.
It was probably like holding the king of versailles' chamber pot.
Slade Wilson I agree. If she left the job if washing dishes, someone else would’ve taken it no problem.
The fact that she has her Christmas cards from hitler framed and is saving them for her grandson says how she really feels. And I’m sure that menorah just *happened* to be there.
she still remembers the "fine food" left on the guests plate as her family went hungry
How the interviewer tried to subtlety force a "I regret working for Hitler" is uncanny
Fr she was just a maid
Yeah that was just pure bullshit.
It's easy to stand up to tyranny when that guy has been dead for decades and you don't have to go hungry like this poor woman did back then.
The woman wasn't falling for it. She was completely honest and I understand what her point of view must have been as a young girl.
@@kristinpfanku3927 young or old you can't hide ..when she went home and understood who she was working for she hide it from from her village..but still in the interview she holds on to the Christmas card from Hitler..that is awful
@@felixandersen3815 my father grew up hungry and he did not cave to Hitler and communist all around the world..Evil is Evil and we have to be ready to say no to what is wrong ..no matter what.
My father taught me that it's better to be hungry than to hate yourself the rest of your life or worse going to hell
what a wonderful old woman.. very wise... and honest.. i wish i could met her..
moirhann meet*
and than stab her!!
Yeah she would know being a maid.
She reminds me of my Austrian grandmother and grand aunt who lived in Austria near Salzburg not far from the Berghof area. My grandmother, father, uncle and aunt stayed in the Czech rep during the war when they were children. Grandfather passed away while in the Austrian army stationed in Italy.
Derpo Sawr it's cuh those people know the truth while you listen to the lies it's okay doe everybody's ignorant to something
She entered as a naive young girl who'd been given the opportunity of a lifetime to do what she thought served her country, and ensure a better life for herself as well.
I can't imagine what she must have felt when she returned home, only to find out what Hitler truly did. You can see it in her eyes, the sadness and disappointment at what the man turned into when all the people had put their faith in him.
I can't really blame her for not wanting to change it, either, because she was given a comfortable life when she'd otherwise have been starving. And she came out of it with unique insight that so few would've gotten, and will now be preserved for generations to come to learn more about what Hitler was like in his private life.
That was probably an unfair question to ask her, "Would you turn away?" She was a young poor girl, not even generals and soldiers told Hitler "no." Also, it's unethical to imply she was a contributor to the war in anyway, even an unwitting one. Thank you for telling your story and for "Delly Fina" for correcting the translations. Propaganda everywhere.
I guess it the same for the girls who were with Epstein too....why would they turn away from all the wealth he showed...right?
It was a question asked by a reporter who was obviously very proud that she'd landed this interview. What would this reporter say to her 20-year-old self? Oh wait. She's only 20 now. That explains a lot.
She didn’t even know what it was like to feel content from eating. Anyone in her position would’ve taken the job.
Ask her about the wooden doors
Well, the interviewer wasn't saying that she *should* have turned away, just asking if she *would*.
She still preserves the card? Props to her, that is a piece of history with you. Its something people would pay a lot of money for.
Anybody paying a lot of money for something from hitler would be crazy!
Mr Cle And why is that?
@@cleonaxiaq2912 i would. although i hate the man, i am fascinated with history and i see that card as a very rare and vital object.
@@cleonaxiaq2912 It's a historical artifact, if you were to buy it you're not buying it to role play the 1930's you fucking imbecile.
1manuscriptman totally well known, you know how people are trading their hitler cards from the 1930s.
A fascinating interview. It’s not difficult to see that she wrestles with the past. On the one hand she was a young women who was thrown in to a position with great prestige, having likely never left her home town to then go and work for Hitler. It must have been thrilling. I have no doubt those early years were great memories for her. On the other hand she came out the other side and was confronted by the criminality and barbarity of the regime in full force, something she had been shielded from before in the inner circle. Trying to come to terms with both must have been a difficult position many of that generation faced.
What about the criminality and barbarity of countries that won and got to write history? Germany was not uniquely evil. It's the Allied propaganda that's making her feel bad when she shouldn't.
@@skillfuldabest Germany tried to systematically wipe out entire races of people based on a warped and flawed ideology. Evil is evil, unique or not. If you imagine that the Allies were ‘equally’ evil then there’s probably not much I can say that will convince you otherwise and it’s a pointless endeavour.
Thank you for bringing this interview to us. Tears in my eyes for all the suffering.
This woman was a relative innocent at the time and in no way should she be held to account.
Robert Rowland yeah obviously... she was just washing dishes
She was not held accountable, she's not demonized, I don't understand why people are so crazy in this comment section. She just shared her story, as a living person who had daily face to face interaction with the devil.
I am therefore I think, as I recall the interviewer asked her a question framed in such a way as to have her denounce her own involvement with Hitler or be seen as sympathetic to his actions. That is what motivated my comment. I wish you well.
I think that's a natural thing to ask, if I one day find out that my boss is the god of all psychos, who killed millions of people, I will lose my mind, and it's natural for someone ask me how I feel.
My point is Elizabeth was in the devil's nest, that alone doesn't make her innocent. But she was working there, she's been brainwashed.
It happens on occasion that one is damned if they do and damned if they don't. I'll say no more on the matter and bid you farewell.
I applaud her honesty and courage to admit that she was swept up in the movement like most others. A lot of people in and around the Nazi Party were liars after the war. They swore that they never enjoyed it or they never knew what was really going on. This old lady is fully aware of the attacks she could receive for telling the truth. But she tells it anyway. Which is why I don't condemn her. In fact I respect her and am glad that she came forward to tell us this interesting story.
Peter Duffield those are the words of a wise man and i respect you for saying that.
I didn't get that impression at all. I feel like she wasn't doing it to be brutally honest, but more dropped herself in it without realising. I also felt that her remorse wasn't genuine and I wasn't getting enough from her in that respect. I didn't leave the video feeling too good about her, but is interesting to see many people like yourself who think the opposite.
@@shanie1387 why? Because she's old and didn't shed a tear or something? You wanted her to CRY and she didn't, so she's FAKING it? She might be sorta sad but not REALLY? is what you're getting at? Just because YOU cry doesn't mean EVERYONE ELSE has to. Ookkkkkayyyy
@@daviedood2503 Its the impression I got, nothing to get triggered by. Go vent your anger on those who actually deny the holocaust ever happened 🙄 I haven't said anything disrespectful.
@@daviedood2503 I'm sorry, I can't take someone serious who thinks the term triggered actually relates in any way to people getting shot, or presumes that someone who wears makeup is a "thot" as you so eloquently put it. Think what you will about my intentions, the reason I am here watching these videos is to inform myself about the atrocities that took place, with ZERO disrespect on my part. I simply made an observation and an opinion. Taking into account the concept the whole video is based on, my comment is the least thing you should be getting worked up about. But crack on, I have no interest in you or your presumptions. However it is always interesting to see people throw out insults when a difference in opinion is made.
She was an innocent teenager and lived a part of world history
The pain in her voice when she was talking about giving the starving boy milk and bread was so sad. 🥺
you guys weren't there when this happened, so stop blaming her for what she did.
she didnt do anything
who is blaming her?
@@thedarkerknight2188 Erm dude you literally replied too a comment hating on her shut the fuck up xD
@@thedarkerknight2188 aww get the hell out from here you liar,we can see through your profile you dumb ass
@silva geko i did and it's f*cking annoying
She is an honest old lady. Like her.
@@milesdyson5211 you sound like Hitler lmao
@Raghnall MacPhadraig 🤫 just don't.
Me too. Her candidness is very admirable.
@@stud105 Why?
@@milesdyson5211 Killing her is frivolous. Just let her live the rest of her life, ya zealot.
A very honest answer at the end, it's a very leading question to ask and it would have been very easy to just say "don't take the job" .... but the reality of the situation was what she answered.
yes. And its not like she did anything wrong . She was not the one who made the decisions. She just had a honest job and for once in her life she could eat properly and sleep in an proper bed.
Terrible last question.
i think she didn't went only because of food and secure job, she also went and liked her job because of her ego, and that is completely understandable especially for a young person. you are being admired and get privileges in the society that you personally can't change anyway. but also you get the chance to be around important people of that time which also gives you a feeling of excitement and of being a part of something bigger than yourself, which in reality everybody would want and like. and in the end she is self aware and honest which is the most important thing.
Elizabeth did nothing wrong.
The German word "Neger" is commonly used even today in Germany. Only the younger Generation stopped using it because of "PC" Reasons. This word isnt consodered racist by normal people....its öike saying calling someone "white" is racist.
Werner Heisenberg no... calling someone black is the same as calling someone white.
Racial slurs are not normal and not okay. Don’t try to make it sound like they are.
@Stig Weard Good to know there are some sane people left in this mad world...Greetings from Germany
She fucked hitler
Elizabeth's employer did nothing wrong.
Self-declared history experts: "Why didn't she kill him?"
People with a rational mind: "That's an interesting interview. It helps to understand Hitler and the Nazi time"
😂
Way more influental people tried to kill Hitler and they failed if she tried that probably she and her entire family would have been killed
Plus i doubt people would know what he was doing with the minorities....
As a Historian, I’m more inclined to the latter than the former. It’s honestly fascinating (and RARE) to find staffers, especially close attendants. Since, you know, most of them are either dead, killed, or vanished by the point anyone wanted interviews without the preface of interrogation and summary execution. Some people today would be inclined to do similar, if current events say anything. But to hear her talk both fondly of the good moments, and somberly of that which she disliked or noted as serious, gives an interesting insight to not only her character as a person, but to Hitler and his staff.
Although, I know a fair amount of the population that would enterprise themselves fit for the former. Because everyone wants to think they’ll do the right thing, or what they perceive to be the right thing. Feeling confident that they could do it, with the tact of a T-Spoon.
I mean how could she? He had security. Was the most powerful man in Germany at the time and killed millions of people. I'd be scared of him
That signed card by Hitler has to be worth some major money to collectors
Amazing interview and insight into this period of history.
Good translation, but a few things were quite wrong. She actually never really said that they had to be quiet, or that it had to be silent around the house. For example during the dinner, tranlation was along the lines of: "We had to stay silent in the kitchen", when she actually said something like "we were having fun in the kitchen".
Anoter one was when she talked about him in the end and said he was crazy, and they translated: "How could he be allowed to do such a thing?" she actually said: " How could a country follow such a ´Thing´ ".
Interesting. The Jewish language is quite different to German, but as English is a Germanic language, mutual translations are better.
Of course it's not properly translated. She's being interviewed by Zionists.
Interesting that she actually said, "how could the country allow..." and not " how could he be allowed..". Because she knows in the back of her mind she was an enabler of him and is after 80 years still in denial. If the whole country is to blame that abdicates some of her responsibility.
Interesting, the truth once again lost in translation.
S. Adam Bernstein - How could she have consciously been an enabler st the time she was working there?
She didn't know much about politics anyway, so that's just armchair moral grand standing from your side.
And I would bet that 99.5% of the job searching females would have seen it as an honour to be chosen by the Führer as a chamber maid (your job description 'enabler') at the time.
It's easy enough to judge from behind the screen and a 70 year gap in between what we would have done or not done if we 'knew'.
I could be such a smart guy and claim now 'how could anyone let Stalin and the Bolsheviks kill over 5 million Ukrainians during the Holodomor in 1931/32?
All these terrible enablers.... '
It's quite easy to judge history on grounds of our current set of values and be outraged about just everything really.
'How could this and how could that'
Well if you are really curious I am afraid the only way to find out might be to use a time machine and go back in time and see for yourself .... rather than just calling a chamber maid an enabler because you were lucky enough to not live at that time and possibly be called an enabler now yourself for providing trivial services like providing flowers or dry cleaning Hitler's cloth'.
Holy shit she's hard to understand. I'm German but that old-timey Austrian dialect left me grateful for those subtitles at times
Ist kein alter österreichischer Dialekt, so spricht man immer noch hier bei uns. ;) Bin Österreicher und habe sie gut verstanden, kann mir aber gut vorstellen, dass jemand, der nur Hochdeutsch spricht, es nicht so gut versteht.
It's not like I've never seen an Austrian in the flesh before ;)
Seriously though, I don't normally have any trouble understanding you guys, even when you're not being extra nice because one of us Northerners is around. I can still only make out two out of every three words she's saying. Maybe it's just because she's really old already :B
I'm learning german and i found her accent lovely, sadly i dndt understand half the vocabulary ;D
You say we Austrians aren't nice?!?!?!
Ok, you're probably right. :D
Austrians? Nice? You gave us Hitler AND time traveling killer robots from the future ;)
Look, I am Jewish and I probably would have felt exactly like she did. She was young, excited, finally around luxury, beauty and bounty. She was around the most powerful person in the country. It must have been glorious and intoxicating. She was a chosen one.
Hitler was all about beauty and obsession with beauty. I imagine his house, the food the surroundings were layered with it. It must have been a delight to live there during such an exciting time.
Yes, horrible things came from it, but one can be flexible enough to understand her point of view.
The interviewer was trying to get her to say she regretted it, but why would she, she had a fanstastic time in a beautiful place, somewhere she felt lucky to work. We try to hold the people of a nation to account for the war crimes of the few. They didn't have any power back then, anymore than we do today. 'Austria was blinded...' the same could be said for the Russian people now. I'm glad she shared her insights, it's fascinating, important and part of our history.
wow she literally IS History. Amazing.. and good for her being honest.
Honest but not repentant. A true Nazi monster!!
@@ryang790 Exactly we are on the same page. She was a Nazi dressed as a normal person. Thank you for agreeing with me this means a lot.
She is either part of History or was merely a bystander, she either actively took part in the decision making that was turning the world into a grave or she simply knew Hitler.
Is she to be respected and revered because she worked for a man whose aim was to turn the world into a wasteland.
Or was she just another person who vaguely knew him.
In which way do you respect her?
@@compoturn1029 seriously? I'm unsure if you are kidding or not, I think I may need to investigate her name
@@alberttatlock5237 If you look her up you will find she she was instrumental in the final solution plan this vile person used the cover as a maid to implement her plan. What better cover than to pose as a maid,nobody will try to assassinate you.! She was more dangerous than Hitler!
This woman have seen and actually lived an era in history that many of us if not most of us have never seen but have only read about in books.
My thoughts exactly
@Green Machine lol that's a shit documentary
The problem is that we will see the same thing in our lifetime :-( There's so many terror groups now it's hard to tell which one will start it. If only our voices weren't being silenced by the left.
@@arahantiusdetache5103 Extremists on both right and left are among the great dangers today
I agree that both sides have extremist but only the right has a monopoly on multimedia since tech companies are mainly staffed by left leaning people.
@@DrJones20
Very interesting interview. Some (smaller) translation errors I picked up while watching.
1:25 "I was very excited" should be "I was very delighted" ("excited" is a correct translation but doesn't accurately reflect what she meant as the word excited can have different connotations whereas in German, it only has a purely and innocent/positive connotation)
4:17 "They stopped what they were doing" should be "They had to stop what they were doing"
6:21 "It was the first time in my life I wasn't hungry" is totally wrong. It should be "It was the first time that I ate rice with golden chanterelle (a quite rare/more expensive type of mushroom, in Austrian German literally called 'egg-mushrooms' due to the color, I guess)"
10:34 "that there are many Ni***s" should be "that there are many neg***s" (a word that was used back then without a strongly negative connotation for blacks. It was more neutral but of course the context of the statement implies that they looked down on them and were scared of black people)
Nothing really major and I don't believe they were intentional. It's easy to see how the Austrian dialect made it difficult for them to translate everything.
6:21 Könnte bedeuten das sie es Erste mal "Eierschwammerl" gegessen hat, könnte aber auch bedeutet dass "Sie das erste mal überhaupt etwas gescheites gegessen hat" denke eher das zweite ist richtig, was wiederum bedeuten würde das die Übersetzung relativ korrekt ist.
Edit: naja bin mir nicht sicher habs erneut gehört könnte beides sein ^^
LG aus Salzburg/Pongau
@@portei3857 Sie sagt doch “Eierschwammerl - die ich zum ersten mal in meinem Leben gegessen gehabt hab”. Finde das absolut eindeutig?!
Thank you 🙂
She was honest. Being so young at that age, it was natural that she must have felt proud working for the leader of her country. And also it is unlikely that she was aware of the atrocities committed by him and the gravity of those acts. She just did her job. She should not be made to feel guilty about it.
Bekaar Chokro 😂😂😂 There's always a thrill for some reason it just never gets old
She thrived for a status instead of being with the ppl
@@truth9042 You're off the topic here??.
@@truth9042 where do you come from ? batshit cave ?
@@memethingz6004 And?
It was a privilege to hear this lady's first hand experience. You never know what knowledge & wisdom someone has until you listen.
Wisdom like, if you ever get a chance to be a maid for Hitler, do it, it's great!
There are a few things wrong in translation for example she said she will always remember when she ate mushrooms with eggs and rice for the first time. "It was the first time in my life that I eat such things", not "I wasn´t hungry"
it means the same thing though when you think about it. she grew up poor.
It's hard to not get emotional when you see the look on this poor lady's face when the interviewer was reading the billboard. You could see the pain and sadness in her expression.
It’s the only time she was likable.
She is an honest and admirable woman. She didn’t know the horrors that were happening and did what she needed to do to survive.
@GreekForTruth1 In the words of my grandfather: "It is weird how fast people get used to such things. Family members dying, training everyday, jews being brought away. It helps you survive in bad times but it also keeps you ignorant. People now can't imagine getting used to such horrors, but we all did.
Everyone knew what was happening to the jews to some extend, the hate was there. The people just either ignored or supported it. Because they got used to it. Because they didn't care anymore. "
He was 16 when the war ended and he visited a nazi boarding school in the war. He tried to flee multiple times.
He was descriminated because he visited a nazi school eventhhough it wasn't his fault.
This here is the same. If you are a servant of a person like Hitler and you are young, you don't know what is right and what is wrong. Poisoning him would result in your death and you might profit from serving him. No one is telling you you should poison him. It's easy to pretend it was that easy from your laptop. If you were there, you wouldn't have done it either.
@@mokkaherrman1104 People now would get used to things like that even faster because our generation in a generation of total pussies
You really believe that in those 2 years and all the guests they had over that time that she never heard anything about what was going on especially at times when the guests were drunk?I sense she knew a lot more than what she said from her body language and eyes.
@@Trajan2401 She was an irrelevant coworker. And killing anyone, is in almost every situation a bad choice. She would have risked her own life, and she was too young and insecure to know that killing hitler would have been the right choice.
@GreekForTruth1 Yes I think so. Not everyone knew the truth!🤦♀️
This is an amazing eyewitness story that anyone should absorb. This lady had a significant part of her life that treasure good memories, yet having to find out that there was a dark side of the life she lived. The honesty of this interview shines a light on human nature where we should not look at the individual and how their lives are shaped through such events.
As rightly stated by the interviewer, it is the "mob" that elevates itself into a psychosis that leads to the attrocities that characterize the 20th century. The third Reich, The Soviet Union, China, Loas, Cambodia, North Korea. It is not political color but human psychology that contains the mechanisms that cause serious mayhem.
I would wish that current group formation that lead to polarisation would take lesson out of this kind of stories. People who define their world views in good vs. bad, us and them, in the name of morality, solidarity and good intentions. If you believe you have the sole definition of right versus wrong? Think again... keep listening to those who speak up and test your views.
Damn! I love to hear it! Too bad there aren’t many normal, open minded, critical thinker like me and you left in the modern age.
Honest woman ,one can't judge without experiencing what she wnt through
"I would have killed him".
Yes, well, nice luck trying such a move. His SS would have destroyed you at the first glance.
This isn't like movies or videogames. Such a move would be stupid in her condition (she doesn't has military training), she didn't had access to weapons really, and in general she didn't had a plot-armor protecting her, nor she was something like a "commando".
She only could work, obey, and let the course of time flow.
Even a Nazi general tried to kill Hitler and failed
And don't forget the near death experiences Hitler faced
@@pranavnair581 And with a bomb! People tend to think that kill a human being is like spread butter over bread🙄
@Joseph James Freewill. That's the "simplest" way.
@@pranavnair581 Rommel never tried to kill hitler
I love how she really does want to answer the questions honestly.. She really does say how it was exciting at the time. And when the interviewer asks, what would you say to yourself before you took the job... It isn't really a fair question.. Are you asking.. can you travel in time and tell the younger "you" that the terrible stuff would happen. Or are you asking... knowing what you knew at the time, would you do anything differently.... I think she honestly answers that, "At the time, we didn't know any better."
Exactly she is pushing the old lady where she wants her, because you can see the unbelieve in the eyes of the interviewer. And the old lady is honest about that time, respectfull!! Guess the old lady could better tell her story to a more objective interviewer, maby the BBC or ZDF, but maby the BBC is better they make great documentaries
@@Ron0181 That old woman has a good mind and she wasn't easily manipulated. Quit your ignorant complaining.
@@chellyr4972 i complain when i want.......if you can read i stand up for the old lady, respectfull how honest she is!! The interviewer sits there whit an attitude and disbelieve about her past! Nobody can tell what you have done in those days, i am not the only one that "complain" about the attitude of the intervieuwer and music, therefore i said maby the BBC can talk whit the old lady they know how to make an objective intervieuw!
dabigcat if we were all asked if we could go back to when we were 17 years old we would all make changes. I would not have married the same wife or taken the same job or made the same financial decisions. It all worked out fine in the long run but there would have been a lot of different choices made.
@@chellyr4972 you don't know. there were Jewish women that actually served h and his officers. you have no clue what you are talking about.
She was a very young, poor, and naïve girl. She seemed to be a very nice girl. Let's be honest, what poor girl in any country would not be proud coming from nowhere and the next day end up working directly for her national leader? She must have been shocked. I admire her and her honesty, and I do not fault her or harbor any bad will that she took that job. Under the circumstances, she would be crazy if she didn't. She was not involved in, and I doubt if she was even aware of, what was happening inside or outside of Germany. She was pretty isolated to a kitchen and a bedroom in Hitler's estate for most of those years, periodically visiting the local town. She still seems like a very nice woman who lived an extraordinary life. Good for her.
This woman is amazing. The honesty and clearness of mind she displays makes this interview a stunning and above all worthy historic testament to a side of what happened during Hitler's reign very rarely told. I can't help but admire her for her honesty.
That Christmas card is a relic of history. And yet she probably told no one about it for 70 years for fear of getting into trouble.
It's not only a relic of history but her personal history. I'd preserve it, too.
Interviewer tried to put words into the old lady’s mouth.
That part was irritating
Amazing the she didn’t play her way, when interviewer tried to make her say she wouldn’t go to Berghof, lady actually said no because she was young and it was an good opportunity for her.
I'm not saying a dissagree I do 100% and I'm not trying to spark up anything but dont think down because shes an old lady
A very good interview. Elisabeth Kalhammer is wonderfully honest, by which we can learn so much about the life of ordinary people under totalitarian regimes. Condamning them is of use, understanding the more. If we want to avoid disasters in the future (and now), we must try to understand why things can evolve in that terrible direction.
Thank you for the testimony. Peace to all lost souls .
When a young interviewer, not even alive at the time, asks the completely unrealistic, inapplicable question, "would you do it differently if you could go back, knowing what you know now," it reveals a total lack of appreciation of the reality of the situation back then, when people were literally just trying to find food so as not to starve. Also, don't forget that even just a mere three years (3!) prior to any military action, Roosevelt, Chamberlain, and the IOC were so charmed with the rebound of Germany and its impressive leader, that they supported his request for the 1936 Olympics and he was awarded it! So, how on earth could anyone ask this lady if she would go back and give up the security of food and shelter, provided by the same man who was given a very public stamp of approval by the leaders of the Western world, and voluntarily return herself to a state of continuous insecurity, hunger and worry of day to day survival? In the 60s we used to reply to such intellectual mumbo jumbo questions: "Hey man, I'm livin in the here and the now! Not in some fantasy world." She was only doing what anyone would have done to survive, and was grateful for the blessing that came her way. To ask if she would go back and not accept the position based on knowledge revealed later, just so that she would never have to admit that she worked for Hitler, is a nonsense question. I wonder if this interviewer would ask the same question of the house servant of Stalin, ie. if she would go back and decline her job offer due to what a monster he turned out to be? What about Hitler's gardener? Should he go back and refuse the work that put food on his children's table? SILLY questions that do not apply.
I'm still waiting for a movie abt the Bolshevic's reign of terror in Eastern Europe from Hollywood. But most of their victims were Christians so we will never see one.
VitaminD47 EXACTLY !!!
Whats with the essay.
It's hard for us in hindsight to contemplate the full context of the 30s. It takes a lot of studying and background information to really grasp how different the geopolitical and economical situations were in those days. It's a serious reading journey to undertake.
Also, don't forget that even just a mere three years (3!) prior to any military action, Roosevelt, Chamberlain, and the IOC were so charmed with the rebound of Germany and its impressive leader, that they supported his request for the 1936 Olympics and he was awarded it!
what an absolutely disgusting remark of yours! and sadly probably even 100% true.
You can't scroll down in WWII videos comments and chill nowadays...
Same can be said about 9/11 videos and videos with 9/11 undertones.
AX System what are you expecting to talk about in a chill manner in a world war 2 video
Think this is hard try Flat Earth for a day!!
This lady is clearly lying anyway...did any of you not notice not one photo or video of them together?!
More proof of propaganda!
AX System because the philosophical reasons for WWII are basically, happening again.