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Apr 3, 2017 · Söderbaum claimed Joseph Goebbels, head of Nazi propaganda, didn’t much like her. His taste – apart from his wife, Magda – ran to dark-haired actresses.
- 5 min
- Karen Liebreich
In the evening of May 1st, Magda Goebbels had summoned a man named Helmut Kunz, adjutant to the head doctor of the SS medical administration, and asked him to give a shot of morphine to each of her children – Helga, Hilde, Hellmut, Holde, Hedda, and Heide.
Mar 18, 2019 · By the end of April 1945, Berlin — the once proud capital of a Reich that was supposed to last one thousand years — was in ruins. Devastating Allied air raids had laid waste to the monuments and buildings that, according to Joseph Goebbels’s rhetoric, should never have been touched.
- Magda Goebbels' Youth
- First Marriage with Günther Quandt
- Finding A Cause
- Second Marriage with Joseph Goebbels
- The (Unofficial) First Lady and First Mother of The Third Reich
- Not as Propaganda Would Have It
- Der Untergang
Magda (Johanna Maria Magdalena) was born in 1901 in Berlin, Germany, to a domestic servant, Auguste Behrend, and a wealthy engineer, Oskar Ritschel. The couple married later that year but then divorced in 1905, with Magda ending up first in Cologne and later in Brussels, Belgium, where she was enrolled at an Ursuline Convent. In 1908, her mother ma...
In 1920, while traveling by train, Magda by chance came to know an exclusive gentleman taking the seat opposite her. Günther Quandt, a wealthy industrialist who founded a business empire including BMW, was struck by the charming young girl with blue eyes and blond hair. Though twice her age, Quandt courted Magda and the two eventually married on 4 ...
The alimonies allowed Magda the life of a rich divorcé so that the 1929 economic crisis hardly affected her. As her mother would later observe: most young women would have been happy with a fraction of what her daughter had, yet Magda was nonetheless unsatisfied and bored. What was apparently missing was a cause to make sense of it all. Unhappy abo...
The little limping man did not exactly match the standard of the Nazi Übermensch, yet Joseph Goebbels was a rising star in the Nazi movement because of his intellectual and speaking capabilities. Magda soon offered her services to the party and, being multilingual, ended up in the secretary department where she would meet Goebbels. Before long, the...
In Magda, Goebbels had found not only an attractive and intelligent woman, but he was also delighted about the world she would open for him. In its early days, the Nazi movement was seen as too left-leaning by many on the conservative right. Magda, having formerly been married to one of the richest men in Germany, had connections that would undoubt...
The proclaimed ideal German family, in reality, was not so harmonious: Joseph was abusive of Magda and had numerous affairs with other women, most notably with the Czech actress Lida Baarova. In 1938 a divorce could only be avoided because the Führer himself (to whom Magda was devoted) intervened. Playing the marriage counselor might have been self...
During the war years, Magda and her children spent most of the time at their villa at the Bogensee lake outside the capital. Yet on visits to Berlin, she saw the once glorious capital crushed under the Allied bombardments and was reminded that things would not always remain as they were. Despite Goebbels' propaganda rhetoric, she was well aware tha...
Dec 13, 2019 · Just a few hours before the Red Army captured the Führerbunker under the New Reich Chancellery in Berlin on May 1, 1945, Reich Propaganda Minster Joseph Goebbels committed suicide together with...
- Alexander Heit, Jens Westemeier, Dominik Gross, Mathias Schmidt
- 2019
As Russian troops neared Berlin in World War II, Magda murdered her six children in Hitler's bunker, and then committed suicide with her husband, Joseph Goebbels.
May 1. Magda Goebbels drugs her six children, then kills them with cyanide. Afterwards, Joseph and Magda Goebbels commit suicide together outside the bunker complex. Their bodies are inexpertly burned. May 1–2. The breakout. The remaining members of the bunker staff escape in separate groups, each to a different fate. May 2.
