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Magda Goebbels

Johanna Maria Magdalena Goebbels (November 11, 1901 - May 1, 1945) was the wife of Joseph Goebbels and First Lady of the Third Reich. Magda was born in berlin in 1901 to Auguste Behrand and Oskar Reitschel.As a child she was sent to convents and found it difficult to make friends with ellow pupils. She married widower Gunther Quandt on January 4, 1921 and soon bore him a son Harold on November 1st. After divorcing Quandt she enlisted in the Nazi Party and met and married Goebbels on February 19, 1929. They subsequently had six children:

  • Helga (born January 4, 1930)
  • Hilda (born May 19, 1932)
  • Helmuth (born October 13, 1935)
  • Holda (born February 1, 1937)
  • Hedda (born May 11, 1938)
  • Heida (born May 2, 1940)

On the morning of May 1, 1945, they poisoned all their children with cyanide. They were found on the afternoon of May 2, 1945.

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