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Magda soon grew frustrated in her marriage; Quandt spent little time with her, as his main interest was the expansion of his business empire. The couple had six children – Harald, Quandt's two sons from a prior marriage, and three children of a deceased friend.
On May 1, 1945, fearing prosecution at the hands of the ‘Allied’ forces, Magda Goebbels killed her six children and then committed suicide along with her husband in the ‘Chancellery’ of the ‘Führerbunker.’
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Magda’s son from her previous marriage, Harald Quandt, was quickly won over by his new stepfather, and formed a strong attachment to Joseph Goebbels. When the Nazis took power in 1933, Goebbels used his influence as a Reich minister to lean on Harald’s father, to modify the terms of his 1929 divorce settlement with Magda.
Jan 29, 2017 · But she soon grew frustrated with her marriage.In 1929, Quandt discovered that Magda was having an affair. He divorced her, with a generous settlement.
According to Ralf Georg Reuth, the author of The Life of Joseph Goebbels (1993): "Magda Quandt fascinated him. Elegant in appearance and calmly assertive in bearing, she embodied a world that had hitherto remained in Goebbels's inner circle... She had grown up in very comfortable circumstances and had graduated from a convent school."
In a farewell letter to her son Harald Quandt (the son of her first husband), Magda explained that the Goebbels children could not grow up in a society without National Socialism.
Mar 18, 2019 · The following formed part of the farewell letter Magda Goebbels wrote to her only surviving son from her first marriage. His name was Harold Quandt, and he was the son of Günther Quandt, the founder of an industrial empire that today includes the car brand BMW.
