How 12-Year-Old Helga Goebbels Died for Hitler’s Ideas
The tragic end of a perfect German girl
“Unfortunately, it has been a girl, but my heart is full of happiness. We may name her Helga.” — Joseph Goebbels in his diary on 1 September 1932, the day his first daughter was born
Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had the perfect German family. And he gave it away to Hitler.
At the time of his political power, Adolf Hitler used hundreds of children for fascist promotion because kids do well on TV. But no family hung out with him in the privacy of their own homes. Except the Goebbels family.
Pretty strange, you’d say, since the Führer wasn’t a big father figure. He had no kids of his own and wasn’t a strong male either (huge problems with intimacy, let me tell you). But Helga was something else.
While Nazism was flaring up all over Germany, its leaders protected their children by sending them abroad, wherever it felt safe. But Joseph Goebbels believed that his kids were ideal Nazi descendants and should be as close to the movement as possible. So, they chilled with Hitler and as a result, died faultless.
