Goebbels page 2 by ric Gustafson
Joseph and Magda Goebbels wrote a farewell letter to Harald Quandt who was Magda's son from her first marriage. Goebbels called Hitler's adjutant Gunther Schwagermann that they intended to take their own lives and the lives of their children. In their beds, the children were given morphine injections and then Magda crushed a cyanide capsule into each of their mouths.
At 20:30 on May 1 1945, Goebbels put on his coat and hat. He walked hand in hand with Magda out of the bunker by the garden exit. Not long after, Schwagermann found their motionless bodies. Both had taken poison. Then, according to their wishes, both were shot once or twice. Then gasoline was poured on their bodies and then set on fire. Their corpses were immediately in flames.
Except for Goebbels, all of the top officials of the Nazi regime tried to flee. Himmler was caught, Bormann was killed trying to escape from the Reich Chancellery. Hermann Goring and Albert Speer surrendered to the Allies.
Goebbels was the only one who followed Hitler into suicide along with his entire family.
To the end, he was totally committed to Adolf Hitler.
research help: ' Goebbels' by Peter Longerich
Peace and God's blessings. Love Ric
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