Joseph and Magda Goebbels had six young children, sadly how did these innocent children die?

battrivkev74

Cyanide poisoning by their Nazi parents in Hitler's bunker Dec 03 06, 1:45 AM

zbeckabee

It was Magda who saw to the murder of her own children. She had already conferred several times with the SS doctors Ludwig Stumpfegger and Helmut Gustav Kunz of the Reich Chancellery staff about how the children could be killed quickly and painlessly. Now, on the afternoon of 1st May, she had Kunz sent to her in the bunker. The decision had been made, she told him, and Goebbels thanked him for helping his wife "put the children to sleep." Around 8:40 p.m. Kunz gave the children morphine injections. He left the room with the three sets of bunk beds and waited with Magda Goebbels until the children were asleep. Then she asked him to give them the poison. 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. In all likelihood she herself had broken the glass cyanide capsules, which she had received from Dr. Morell, in the mouths of Helga, Hilde, Helmut, Holde, Hedda, and Heide. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERgoebbels.htm Dec 03 06, 4:42 AM

skysmom65

Joseph's last testament, dictated to Traudl, said that Magda and their children supported him in his refusal to leave Berlin, and to die in the bunker. But it later reneged and said that the children would support the decision if they were old enough to speak for themselves. The following day, on May 1, 1945, the Goebbelses' six children were drugged with morphine, and killed with cyanide capsules broken in their mouths. Accounts differ over how involved Magda was with the killing of her children. Some witnesses claimed SS doctor Ludwig Stumpfegger crushed the cyanide capsules into the children's mouths, but as no witnesses to the event survived it is impossible to know. O'Donnell concluded that although Stumpfegger was probably involved in drugging the children, it was Magda who killed them. He suggested that witnesses blamed the deaths on Stumpfegger because he was a convenient target, having disappeared (and died, it was later learned) the following day. Moreover, as O'Donnell recorded, Stumpfegger may have been too intoxicated at the time of the deaths to have played a reliable role. Magda appears to have contemplated and talked about killing her children at least a month in advance, and Joseph seems to have acquiesced. She also refused several offers from others, such as Speer, to spirit the children out of Berlin. There was evidence (in the form of bruises) that the eldest child, twelve year old Helga, had awakened and struggled before she was killed. The children's pajama-clad bodies were still in the two-tiered bunk beds where they were killed when Russian troops entered the bunker a day later. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda_Goebbels Dec 03 06, 11:40 AM

lanfranco

Much to my surprise, I learned some time ago that Magda had a son by an earlier marriage who, owing to the identity of his father, was a member of a family that is still one of Germany's wealthiest and most prominent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Quandt Dec 03 06, 5:45 PM

star_gazer

To add to Frankie's information: Joseph Goebbels, letter to his stepson Harald Quandt (28th April, 1945) We are now confined to the Führer's bunker in the Reich Chancellery and are fighting for our lives and our honour. God alone knows what the outcome of this battle will be. I know, however, that we shall only come out of it, dead or alive, with honour and glory. I hardly think that we shall see each other again. Probably, therefore, these are the last lines you will ever receive from me. I expect from you that, should you survive this war, you will do nothing but honour your mother and me. It is not essential that we remain alive in order to continue to influence our people. You may well be the only one able to continue our family tradition. Always act in such a way that we need not be ashamed of it. Germany will survive this fearful war but only if examples are set to our people enabling them to stand on their feet again. We wish to set such an example. You may be proud of having such a mother as yours. Yesterday the Führer gave her the Golden Party Badge which he has worn on his tunic for years and she deserved it. You should have only one duty in future: to show yourself worthy of the supreme sacrifice which we are ready and determined to make. I know that you will do it. Do not let yourself be disconcerted by the worldwide clamour which will now begin. One day the lies will crumble away of themselves and truth will triumph once more. That will be the moment when we shall tower over all, clean and spotless, as we have always striven to be and believed ourselves to be. Farewell, my dear Harald. Whether we shall ever see each other again is in the lap of the gods. If we do not, may you always be proud of having belonged to a family which, even in misfortune, remained loyal to the very end to the Führer and his pure sacred cause. Dec 03 06, 6:14 PM

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