MAGDA GOEBBELS: How she BECAME the First Lady of the Reich, but POISONED 6 of her children with C...
This biography of Magda Goebbels is the grim story of how a girl raised by a Jewish stepfather, who fell in love with a Zionist in her youth, abandoned her millionaire husband, charmed Joseph Goebbels, and became the uncrowned First Lady of the Third Reich under the bachelor Hitler.
She bore Goebbels six children—all with names beginning with the letter H, in honor of the Führer. And on May 1, 1945, in a bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery, when Soviet troops were five blocks away, Magda gave them morphine, and an SS doctor crushed an ampoule of cyanide in each one's mouth. The eldest was 12 years old, the youngest was four.
00:00:00 – Children in the Bunker
00:01:18 – The Situation in the City and the Woman in the Bunker
00:03:56 – The Murder of the Children and Kunz's Testimony
00:06:09 – After the Murder and Magda's First Cigarette
00:07:24 – The Burning of Hitler and Eva Braun's Bodies
00:08:08 – Magda's Political Career
00:12:18 – Early Years and Upbringing
00:16:26 – Richard Friedländer and School Years
00:18:26 – Hobbies and Ideological Interests
00:21:38 – Meeting Günther Quant and Marriage
00:27:10 – Divorce, Independence, and Interest in Nazism
00:30:34 – Meeting Goebbels and the Beginning of an Affair
00:34:32 – Goebbels's Personal Life and political career
00:38:06 – Marriage to Goebbels and Magda's role in the Third Reich
00:45:06 – The Goebbels family, the marital crisis, and Magda's health
00:50:10 – Last public appearance and the realization of Germany's defeat
00:52:00 – The decision to kill the children and the move to the bunker
00:56:10 – The murder of the children
00:57:33 – Discovery of the bodies and identification
01:00:14 – The fate of Harald Quant and the current state of his descendants
01:03:21 – Helmut Kuhns and the Reich Chancellery bunker
01:05:38 – Memory of the children and Magda's legacy
The complete biography of Magda Goebbels (1901-1945), née Johanna Maria Magdalena Behrend — a documentary about the life and death of the minister's wife Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich propaganda figure, and the uncrowned First Lady of Nazi Germany. From being raised by her Jewish stepfather, Richard Friedländer, to her marriage to Günther Quandt, her fascination with Hitler, and the murder of her six children in the Reich Chancellery bunker on May 1, 1945. Twentieth century, Third Reich, World War II, the fall of Berlin.
Sources used in the creation of this video:
1. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Геббелс...
Russian Wikipedia. Full chronology: birth November 11, 1901 in Berlin as Johanna Maria Magdalena Behrend; stepfather Richard Friedländer; marriage to Günther Quandt; affair with Zionist Viktor Arlozorov (coded in early biographies as "student Hans"); joining the NSDAP September 1, 1930; wedding to Goebbels December 19, 1931 (witness: Hitler); letter to first son Harald Quandt; death May 1, 1945.
2. http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/history/author/...
Official website of the FSB of Russia — historical publication based on investigative materials. A unique primary source: body identification materials (chief of security V. Eckold, Reich Chancellery physician G. Kunz, dental technician K. Goiserman), Hitler's gold cigarette case, forensic examination reports on the children, Magda's last words on Wilhelm Square.
3. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Дети_Ге...
Russian Wikipedia - a separate, detailed article. All six children (Helga, Hildegard, Helmut, Holdina, Hedwig, Heidrun) were named after Hitler, beginning with "H," the murder scene, Kunz and Stumpfegger's refusal, bibliography (Rzhevskaya, E. M. Goebbels: Portrait on the Background of a Diary, Slovo/SLOVO, 1994; Antony Beevor, Berlin: The Downfall 1945).
4. https://24smi.org/celebrity/122010-ma...
24SMI — a long biographical article. Her illegitimate origins, relationship with her Jewish stepfather Richard Friedlander, her youth in a Catholic convent in Belgium, illnesses in the 1940s, the exhumation and cremation of her children's remains in the 1970s, and the scattering of ashes over the Elbe and the North Sea.
5. https://nik191-1.ucoz.ru/publ/istorij...
Nik191-1 — article "Magda Goebbels: The Darling of the Third Reich." Details about the “three fathers, three religions”: biological father Oskar Ritschel, Jewish stepfather Richard Friedländer, conversion from Catholicism to Buddhism through Zionism with Arlozorov, divorce from Quandt, transformation into the “first lady of the Third Reich.”