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Magda Goebbels
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We will take them with us, because they are too good, too lovely for the world which lies ahead... no, no I must also take the children, I must!
— From a discussion with Ello Quandt, spring 1945
Magda Goebbels
German politician (1901–1945)
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- Fame58.8
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Lived 1901–1945, aged 44Germany
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Wife of Nazi Germany's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and a close political supporter of Adolf Hitler. On 1 May 1945, with Berlin falling, she and her husband murdered their six children before taking their own lives in the Reich Chancellery gardens.
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Born Johanna Maria Magdalena Ritschel on 11 November 1901, she married Günther Quandt and had a son, Harald, before the union ended. Her second marriage, to Joseph Goebbels, made her a prominent member of the Nazi Party and placed her in Hitler's inner circle. Some historians call her the unofficial "first lady" of Nazi Germany, though others assign that role to Emmy Göring. As the Battle of Berlin closed in at the end of World War II in Europe, she and her husband killed their six children with a cyanide compound, then committed suicide in the Reich Chancellery gardens on 1 May 1945. Harald Q…
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Magda Goebbels
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We have demanded monstrous things from the German people, treated other nations with pitiless cruelty.
— From a discussion with Ello Quandt, spring 1945
Magda Goebbels
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He no longer listens to voices of reason. Those who tell him what he wants to hear are the only ones he believes.
— Magda's opinion of Hitler in 1944
Magda Goebbels
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My God, what a lot of rubbish.
— Magda's remarks after switching off the radio on 9 November 1942 during a gathering with friends to listen to a speech by Hitler
Magda Goebbels
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Love is meant for husbands, but my love for Hitler is stronger. I would give my life for it.
— Knopp, Guido, Hitler's Women Page number needed
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