How Hitler’s Favorite Girl Helga Goebbels Ended Up Dead in His Bunker
From a perfect family to a tragic end
“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 ideal German family. And he gave it to Hitler.
At the time, Adolf Hitler used hundreds of children for fascist promotion. But no family hung out with him in the privacy of their own homes. Except the Goebbels family.
This was pretty strange since the Führer wasn’t a big father figure. He had huge problems with intimacy and no kids of his own.
While Nazism was flaring up all over Germany, its leaders protected their children by sending them abroad. But Joseph Goebbels believed that as ideal Nazi descendants, his kids needed to be as close to the movement as possible. So, they chilled with Hitler.
