Posted on 05/03/2017 9:30:50 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
The Goebbels children were the five daughters and one son born to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels. The children, born between 1932 and 1940, were murdered by their parents in Berlin on 1 May 1945, the day both parents committed suicide. Magda Goebbels had an older son, Harald Quandt, from a previous marriage to Günther Quandt. He was not present when his half-siblings were killed.
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On the following day, Magda and Joseph Goebbels arranged for an SS dentist, Helmut Kunz, to inject their six children with morphine so that, when they were unconscious, ampules of cyanide could be crushed in their mouths. According to Kunz's later testimony, he gave the children morphine injections, but it was Magda and SS-Obersturmbannführer Ludwig Stumpfegger, Hitler's personal doctor, who administered the cyanide.
Rochus Misch, the bunker telephone/radio operator, stated that Werner Naumann told him that he had seen Hitler's personal physician, Dr Stumpfegger, give the children something "sweetened" to drink. Another account says that the children were told they would be leaving for Berchtesgaden in the morning, and Stumpfegger was said to have provided Magda with morphine to sedate them. Erna Flegel claims that Magda reassured the children about the morphine by telling them that they needed inoculations because they would be staying in the bunker for a long time. Author James P. O'Donnell concluded that, although Stumpfegger was probably involved in drugging the children, Magda killed them herself. He surmised that witnesses blamed the deaths on Stumpfegger because he was a convenient target, having died 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.
For the children
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Hope they’re enjoying the smell of eternally burning flesh in Hell!
You mean, the entire Goebbels family is really....(sob)....dead?
This was the most disturbing scene in the movie “Downfall” (the real movie that the “Hitler finds out” YouTube parodies are based on).
They showed everything in graphic detail, not holding anything back.
I think she actually did it
She should have sent them west with an escort
Crazy people
Then again Russians would have had a field day with them
Very depressing film. Definitely not a re-watch.
Well, this has been known for 40 years at least. I taught this for all 31 years of my career.
IIRC, the oldest Goebbels daughter grew suspicious and was forcibly poisoned.
Soviet footage of the six slain children is horrific.
All because Magda Goebbels didn’t want them “living in a world without Hitler”. Not, “I don’t want them captured by the Russians” (they could have been evac’d). A true Nazi, that one.
Those innocent children still play in Heaven and sit at the feet of Jesus. Their parents are still burning in hell and will forever.
Yes, we watched the German movie, Downfall, together, wife and I, and watched as the Goebbels gave their children the pills to kill them. I recall my wife saying “I hope they are burning in hell”.
Yes, my wife, wished she never saw the movie.
Should have happened in 1930
This was depicted in the movie “Downfall” (the one that all the Hitler YouTube parodies come from).
It was a very difficult scene to watch.
I concur.
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