Harald Quandt, Magda Goebbels' son by her first marriage, center back stands in uniform with his step-father Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, bottom from right, his mother Magda, third from left, and the couple's children, Helga, Hildegard, Helmut, Hedwig, Holdine and Heidrun in 1942. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
In the spring of 1945, Harald Quandt, a 23-year-old officer in the
German Luftwaffe, was being held as a prisoner of war by Allied forces
in the Libyan port city of Benghazi when he received a farewell letter
from his mother, Magda Goebbels -- the wife of Nazi propaganda minister
Joseph Goebbels.
The hand-written note confirmed the devastating
news he had heard weeks earlier: His mother had committed suicide with
her husband on May 1, after slipping their six children cyanide capsules
in Adolf Hitler’s underground bunker in Berlin.
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