The life of the chosen ones of the hearts of the highest-ranking officials in Nazi Germany was full of luxury, guaranteed exceptional privileges and the fulfillment of all whims. However, there was also the other side of the coin. For political reasons, Nazi wives were forced to sever ties even with their loved ones and stay with her husband despite his betrayals and deceptions.
Eloquent and elegant
Magda was a graduate of an elite school, a refined and educated woman, traveled a lot and communicated fluently in several languages. At the age of almost 20, she married the German entrepreneur Günther Quandt. Magda did not feel happy in this marriage and 8 years later, in 1929, she divorced Quandt, having an affair with a handsome student on the way.
Magda Quandt was a restless soul and she was looking for strong emotions. At the urging of her friends, she took part in a rally organized by the Nazis. During this meeting, the second most important voice in the party, after Hitler, spoke - Joseph Goebbels. Magda, impressed by Goebbels' speech, decided to join the party in 1930. She quickly became the leader of the local Nazi women's group, but she wanted more promotions. Soon she applied for a job in the propaganda department headed by Joseph Goebbels.
Fascination with Hitler
Goebbels liked Magda. The head of Nazi propaganda decided to seduce her, so he offered her a job on his private archive. It wasn't long before they started sleeping together in February 1931. However, their relationship was not all roses. Although Goebbels was a womanizer and denied monogamy, he did not allow Magda to share her charms with another man, and Magda's former lover had just appeared in their lives. In an act of desperation, still in love with Magda, the student tried to kill Goebbels and his partner. He missed, and the would-be killer was taken by the police.
Magda Goebbels - always dressed fashionable and elegant
Acquaintance with Goebbels enabled Magda to fulfill her dream that grew in her from the moment of joining the Nazi organization - to meet Adolf Hitler. In the spring of 1931, Magda, accompanied by Joseph Goebbels, met with Adolf Hitler and Otto Wagener. Hitler was greatly impressed by Magda. The leader of the Nazi party wanted Magda to marry Goebbels in order to maintain a relationship with her without any suspicion or ambiguity. Magda approved the idea and soon got married to Goebbels. She had one goal in mind. She wanted to be as close to her leader as possible. Then she herself stated:
For Adolf Hitler, I would be ready to do anything.
The First Lady of the Reich
When the Nazis seized power in Germany, Magda became a natural candidate for the role of the First Lady of the Reich. In the spring of 1933, Magda Goebbels made her first radio speech for the recognition of Mother's Day, which was positively received by German society. During this period, she also became the honorary president of the German Fashion Institute. The aim of this institution was to combat the influence of foreign styles in the clothing of German women and the presence of Jews in the fashion industry. Magda wanted to implement a journey in which:"the German woman of the future should be stylish, beautiful and intelligent".
Lidia Baarova - Czech actress and lover of Joseph Goebbels
Soon Joseph Goebbels deprived her of this possibility, cutting off his wife from the German Fashion Institute. In order to give free rein to her creativity, Magda took up interior design and decoration. Magda's withdrawal from public life was also due to the fact that she often became pregnant. She bore Joseph as many as six children, but also had frequent health problems, so she was often indisposed. However, despite the limitation of Magda's professional activity, the special relationship between the Goebbels and Hitler did not change.
(Un) marital fidelity
Joseph Goebbels often cheated on his wife, and the spouses had separate bedrooms in their Berlin house. Magda did not owe Goebbels, allowing herself a fleeting flirtation. However, her husband's romance with the Czech actress Lidia Baarova especially hurt Magda. The matter became so serious that Magda involved Adolf Hitler himself. The chief decided that the Goebbels marriage had to survive, and the Minister of Propaganda himself was to end his intimate relationship with Lidia Baarova.
The next step was the decision to separate and conclude a contract between the spouses, in which Goebbels undertakes to correct his mistakes. Baarova herself is expelled and banned from entering Germany. The whole situation had a significant impact on cooling the hitherto excellent relations between Goebbels and Hitler.
World War II
The whole situation with Baarova had a negative impact on Magda's physical and mental form. Despite the apparent stabilization of relations between Magda and Joseph, after the start of World War II, they gradually began to move away from each other. This was due to two reasons:Magda's deteriorating health and Joseph Goebbels' frequent trips abroad.
Magda and Joseph Goebbels with six children together, and from the top in uniform one hundred Harald Quandt, Magda's son from her first marriage
When the Germans began to suffer further defeats during World War II, Magda became more and more aware of the inevitable. At the beginning of 1945, she asked one of Hitler's doctors for poison for her family. However, in her opinion, faith in the only correct doctrine remained until the last days of life. In a letter to Harald Quandt, a son from her first marriage, Magda made these words:
I have no alternative. Our great idea is being destroyed, and with it, everything that I thought was beautiful, admirable, noble and good dies. It is not worth living in the world that will come after Hitler and National Socialism. That's why I took the children with me. The life that will remain after us is not worthy of them.
On May 1, 1945, the end came. Magda's children were given cocoa containing a strong sedative, and after falling asleep they were poisoned. There is no unequivocal version of who made this deed - Magda herself or Dr. Stumpfegger. In the evening of the same day, Magda took poison and her husband shot her in the head. Then Goebbels swallowed a capsule containing the lethal substance as well, put the barrel of the gun to his head, and fired a shot for the last time in his life.
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