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- Quandt proved to be too involved and rather anti-social, which went against Magda's sociability and desire to use her skills at entertaining and social graces to advance his business. She was also taken aback by his intense jealousy and the imbalance between his tight penny-pinching and extravagant spending.
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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.
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- Nazi Party (NSDAP)
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.
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.’
Kunz refused, however, and was then sent by Magda Goebbels to fetch Stumpfegger. When Kunz came back with him, Magda was already in the children's room. Stumpfegger joined her there, and came back out with her after four or five minutes.
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.
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.
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.
