“We have made a solemn vow to each other: When we have conquered the Reich, we will become man and wife. I am very happy.”
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Johanna Maria Magdalena Goebbels was the wife of Nazi Germany's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi Party, she was a close ally, companion, and political supporter of Adolf Hitler. Some historians refer to her as the unofficial "first lady" of Nazi Germany, while others give that title to Emmy Göring.
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politics · Wife of Joseph Goebbels (1901–1945) · politician · propagandist · wife · also Magda Goebbels, Johanna Maria Magdalena Ritschel, Johanna Maria Magdalena Goebbels, Johanna Maria Magdalena Friedländer, Johanna Maria Magdalena Quandt, Goebbels
Born 11 November 1901 · Died 1 May 1945 · Q57202
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“We have made a solemn vow to each other: When we have conquered the Reich, we will become man and wife. I am very happy.”
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TV Movie: Magda Goebbels - Fanatisch bis in den Tod
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Writer and historian Oliver Hilmes found Friedländer's residency card in the Berlin archives
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KGB director Yuri Andropov authorised an operation to destroy the remains
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That they walked ahead of him up the stairs and out into the Chancellery garden
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Died 1945-05-01.
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“Opis: na temat wrażeń, które wywarł na Magdzie Joseph Goebbels.”
“Teraz kocham już tylko jedną.”
Reportedly said of Hitler, "He no longer listens to voices of reason
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Goebbels met the Czech actress Lída Baarová and by the winter of 1937 began an intense affair with her
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Bought a villa on Schwanenwerder island and later another at Bogensee near Wandlitz in Brandenburg
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“Opis: wpis do dziennika z początku 1931.”
“Opis: wpis do dziennika z listopada 1930.”
Magda attended a meeting of the Nazi Party, where she was impressed by one of the speakers, Joseph Goebbels, then the Gauleiter of Berlin
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Quandt discovered that Magda was having an affair, so they separated and divorced later in the year
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Prior to Magda's marriage to Günther Quandt
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While returning to school on a train, she met Günther Quandt, a rich German industrialist twice her age
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Her mother married Richard Friedländer, a wealthy Jewish merchant who lived in Brussels
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Born 1901-11-11.
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In Berlin, Germany, to an unwed couple, Auguste Behrend and engineer Oskar Ritschel
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