{"id":103270,"date":"2026-06-26T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103270"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T21:37:33","slug":"magda-goebbels-the-nazi-mother-who-murdered-her-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/26\/magda-goebbels-the-nazi-mother-who-murdered-her-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Magda Goebbels: The Nazi Mother Who Murdered Her Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zf8iTKiWmKU?si=znWnZpy4-qJXKgCb\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>World War Two<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 25 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p>Magda Goebbels was one of the most infamous women in Hitler&#8217;s inner circle. Known as the wife of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and often treated as an unofficial &#8220;First Lady&#8221; of the Third <em>Reich<\/em>, she helped project an image of family, elegance, and loyalty while standing beside one of history&#8217;s most murderous regimes. But her story ends in one of the darkest acts of the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>As Berlin collapsed in 1945, Magda Goebbels took her six children into Hitler&#8217;s <em>F\u00fchrerbunker<\/em>. Offered chances to escape, she refused. One day after Hitler&#8217;s suicide, she helped murder her own children with cyanide, claiming that a world without National Socialism was not worth living in.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of our new format, Baddies and Battleaxes, Anna Deinhard returns to tell the story of Magda Goebbels: socialite, Nazi fanatic, mother, accomplice, and child murderer. Her life reveals how women in the Third <em>Reich<\/em> were not always passive bystanders. Some, like Magda, actively embraced Nazi ideology, helped legitimize the regime, and chose loyalty to Hitler over humanity itself.<\/p>\n<p>This is the story of the Nazi &#8220;First Lady&#8221; who followed fascism all the way into the bunker.<\/p>\n<p>Who should Anna cover next in Baddies and Battleaxes? Tell us which heroines and villainesses of WW2 you want to see in a future episode.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Two Published 25 Jun 2026 Magda Goebbels was one of the most infamous women in Hitler&#8217;s inner circle. Known as the wife of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and often treated as an unofficial &#8220;First Lady&#8221; of the Third Reich, she helped project an image of family, elegance, and loyalty while standing beside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1118,7,230],"tags":[304,1391,374,457,969,269],"class_list":["post-103270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","category-ww2","tag-antisemitism","tag-biography","tag-children","tag-fascism","tag-hitler","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qRE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103271,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103270\/revisions\/103271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}