In April 1945, the war on the European front was nearing its end, and the Red Army had arrived in Berlin, approaching Hitler's "palace". Goebbels, who had just become Chancellor of Germany, rejected Hitler's last words and decided to stay with his family.
Goebbels was Magda's second husband. After the two married in 1931, they had 1 boy and 5 girls in 8 years, with a total of 6 children. In the face of a population shortage in Germany, such a prolific Magda was called a "model mother" by Hitler. In 1945, the oldest of the six children was 12 years old and the youngest was only 4 years old. Before marrying Goebbels, Magda had a son, Harald Quint, who was 24 years old in 1945.
The children's names all began with "H", so many believed that Goebbels was motivated by a fanatical admiration for Hitler. But in fact, "H" is a continuation of the name given to his eldest son Quint by Magda's first husband, which was also recognized by Magda's mother.
On May 1, 1945, with no hope of survival, and in order to avoid falling into Soviet hands, Magda murdered 6 of their children in Hitler's "palace" and then committed suicide with her husband.
However, this is not the whole truth.
In 2009, German researchers combed through post-war trial data to tease out the details of the murder that had not been made public. This has given people a new understanding of the long-circulated "Magda Murder Case".
German interrogation records from 1959 show that the real killers of the six children were not their mothers, but Hitler's personal doctors, Helmut Kuntz and Ludwig Stumfeg. The former was a dentist, the latter was a surgeon, both of whom were Hitler's confidants.
Helmut Kunz (1910–1976)
"At the end of April, Magda came up to me and said, 'I need your help to kill the children,' and I turned her down, saying it wasn't my responsibility,' Kuntz said in his testimony. ”
The idea that Magda wanted to kill 6 children had been there before that 1 month. Of course, this is also what her husband Goebbels meant. The two are far from as harmonious as they seem on the surface — Goebbels is a notorious womanizer who has a crush on young actresses, while Magda has an affair with Goebbels' deputy, Carl Hank. But on the decision to kill the child, the two agreed.
Knowing that Magda had made up his mind, Kuntz fled the "palace" without daring to disobey and not being willing to do so. But only a few hours later, Kuntz was found by Magda.
"You have to come back or you'll die."
"This is not a request, this is a command! If my orders don't count, then I'll go to Hitler and ask him to give you direct orders. Do you feel the need? ”
Kuntz reluctantly returned to the "palace".
On 30 April, Hitler committed suicide. According to his last words, Goebbels became the new Chancellor of Germany. Now there was no longer any need to bother Hitler with orders, and Magda's orders were the supreme instructions. effective!
On the night of 1 May, Kuntz had to carry out Magda's orders. The children were in the same room at the time and had not yet fallen asleep. Magda told them, "Don't be afraid, the doctor will give you an injection that all children and soldiers use." Then he left the room. Strictly speaking, Magda did not deceive them, and Quints was holding morphine, a strongly calming analgesic commonly used on the battlefield. First the eldest daughter Suzanne, then the younger son Christian, then the other 4 daughters... Each person was injected with 0.5 ml, which took about 10 minutes in total.
Shortly after Quintz left, Magda walked into the room with 6 cyanide capsules in her hand...
There is nothing special about the development of the story here, and these plots have long been known. Don't think about it, then Magda shoved the capsule into the children's mouths, and then completed the killing of children - Magda is the executioner who killed her own 6 children!
But this is not the case.
Magda stayed in the room for a few minutes, then walked out, crying and saying, "Doctor, I can't do it." You have to do it! But Kuntz insisted he couldn't do it either. Magda was determined to poison her own child, so she finally had to go to Dr. Stump Fegg and ask him to poison him.
Stumpferger and Himmler have a close relationship, and the two have a lot in common, such as being fierce. Eventually, Stumpfiger completed the final step of poisoning the child. After that, according to Hitler's previous orders, he left the "palace" with several other people - fled. Shortly after his departure, however, he was killed while trying to cross the Red Army's defensive lines. No one knows exactly whose gun he died at.
To confirm that all 6 of the children were dead, Magda entered the room again. When she came out, she cried and said to Kuntz, "Now it's all over!" ”
After that, Magda and Goebbels went together to the small garden of the "Palace" and each bit down on the same capsule... Following Goebbels' prior orders, an SS soldier fired several shots at his body and then poured gasoline on him. His body was only partially burned and had not yet had time to be buried.
At this point, the "Magda Murder Case" is over.
Everyone was dead, except Kuntz. 他是行凶者，又是唯一的目击者，他本可以做假证，可以证明自己无罪，但在后来的审讯中，他把这一切都交代了。 即便如此，他也没有受到任何的惩罚。
Why was Magda's eldest son, Quint, spared?
Quint and Hitler attended Goebbels' wedding
Some people say that because Quint is the son of Magda and her ex-husband, the mother and son have long been separated. But in reality, the relationship between them has always been good. Quint attended Magda's wedding to Goebbels and, after 1934, moved to Goebbels' house to live with his mother. It was not until he joined the Luftwaffe in 1940 that he moved out. Wounded in Italy in 1944 and captured by the Allies, he was not released until 1947. It was for this reason that he survived.
We often say that children are innocent. The six children, the eldest of whom is only 12 years old, are far from fully capable. They would never have dreamed that it was not the evil enemies in the mouths of the adults who wanted to kill themselves, but their own mother! Biological.
In terms of responsibility, Both Kuntz and Stumpferig are unsustainable perpetrators, that is, murderers. Magda is the mastermind behind it, although not directly murdered, but also a repeat offender. The problem, however, is that Magda was scolded by all of humanity, and Stumpferg died a hundred times, but Kuntz escaped punishment!
This is also a strange thing.