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Frau Goebbels and five of her six children by Goebbels. The older boy, a child by her previous marriage, survived the war

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 Dinesh
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Even if Hitler left Berlin, Goebbels declared, he wanted to meet his end in Berlin. “My wife and my children are not to survive me. The Americans would only coach them to make propaganda against me. But when I visited Frau Goebbels in Schwanenwerder in the middle of April, I learned that she could not face the thought that her children were to die. Nevertheless she apparently gave in to her husband’s decision. A few days later I proposed to her that at the last moment a barge of our transport fleet be tied up at night at the landing stage of the Goebbels property in Schwanenwerder. She and the children could hide below the deck until the barge had been moved to tributary on the western side of Elbe. We would supply food enough so that she could remain for some time undiscovered. ~ page 552

INSIDE THE THIRD REICH
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 Dinesh
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Goebbels told me that his wife and six children were now living in the bunker as Hitler’s guests, in order, as he put it, to end their lives at this historic site. In contrast to Hitler, he appeared to be in fullest control of his thoughts and emotions. He showed no sign of having settled his accounts with life.

By this time it was late afternoon. An SS doctor informed me that Frau Goebbels was in bed, very weak and suffering from heart attacks. I sent word to her asking her to receive me. I would have liked to talk to her alone, but Goebbels was already waiting in an anteroom and led me into the little chamber deep underground when she lay in a plain bed. She was pale and spoke only trivialities in a low voice. Although I could sense that she was in deep agony over the irrevocably approaching hour when her children must die. Since Goebbels remained persistently at my side, over conversation was limited to the state of her health. Only as I was on the point of leaving did she hint at what she was really feeling: “How happy I am that at least Harald [her son by her first marriage] is alive.” I too felt confined and could scarcely find words -- but what could anyone say in this situation? We said good=by in awkward silence. Her husband had not allowed us even a few minutes alone for our farewell. ~ Page 571
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 Dinesh
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Goebbels was a master propagandist who excelled in stirring up hatred and orchestrating gigantic extravaganzas, such as the annual Nazi Party rallies. He was the only one of Hitler’s early associated who stayed with him right to the end. When Hitler committed suicide in 1945, Goebbels did so, too: he and his wife Magda had their children poisoned before he had her and himself shot. Goebbels’s extensive diaries large parts of which have been published, reveal him to have been a “true believer,” committed to Hitler as a person and to relization of his ideas. - 42

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