Former maid to Adolf Hitler interview

"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.

Stop making the poor old women like she is evil She only did what she need to survive

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

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.

Not many people have a christmas card signed by Adolf Hitler.

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.

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.

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

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.

We are the last generation that will be able to meet these people in person

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.

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.

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

so sad they didn’t translate what she said properly, at one point she called hitler a clown lmao

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).

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.

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?

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.

I´m Austrian and the translation at 6:20 is wrong, it´s not the first time she didn`t feel hungry, it´s the first time she ate this rice dish with mushrooms which are a specialty in Austria. (Eierschwammerl)

I could tell the interviewer did not like what she was hearing. At the end, she tried to bully Elisabeth into saying what she, the interviewer, wanted to hear.